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    God Seen Through the Eyes of the Greatest Minds
    God Seen Through the Eyes of the Greatest Minds
    God Seen Through the Eyes of the Greatest Minds
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    God Seen Through the Eyes of the Greatest Minds

    By Michael Caputo

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    Michael Caputo, through years of exhaustive research, has discovered letters, writings, and quotes that reveal what the greatest artists, musicians, philosophers, scientists, and writers thought about the God of heaven. Through the pages of this timeless work, you will engage the thoughts of history's most celebrated people: Mozart, Galileo, Descartes, Shakespeare, Einstein, Michelangelo, and many more.

    Did great intellect and creativity lead brilliant men and women of the past to agnosticism and atheism, or did it lead them to believe in and submit to a Creator God? The answer to that question lies in the pages of this intriguing book. As you read and experience how the greatest minds of history viewed God, you will find an overwhelming consensus that the God of the universe does indeed exist and that He has impacted and shaped those who have influenced our world. Michael Caputo, through years of exhaustive research, has discovered letters, writings, and quotes that reveal what the greatest artists, musicians, philosophers, scientists, and writers thought about the God of heaven. Through the pages of this timeless work, you will engage the thoughts of history's most celebrated people: Mozart, Galileo, Descartes, Shakespeare, Einstein, Michelangelo, and many more. Open the pages of this book and discover what those who have shaped history thought about the God of eternity.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHoward Books
    Release dateJun 15, 2010
    ISBN9781451604818
    God Seen Through the Eyes of the Greatest Minds
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    Michael Caputo

    Italian born, Michael Caputo has lived in Canada for most of his life and has served in Christian ministry in both Italy and Canada. Having degrees in psychology, education, and adult counseling, he has been teaching and counseling full-time at the high-school level while teaching part-time at the college level for several years. He also serves a congregation as a local elder, runs workshops on mental health, counsels, researches, and writes. He and his wife, Leonilda, are the proud parents of three dynamic teenagers: Anthony, Julie, and Victor.

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      God Seen Through the Eyes of the Greatest Minds - Michael Caputo

      GOD

      SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF

      THE GREATEST MINDS

      MICHAEL CAPUTO

      Howard Publishing Co.

      Our purpose at Howard Publishing is to:

      Increase faith in the hearts of growing Christians

      Inspire holiness in the lives of believers

      Instill hope in the hearts of struggling people everywhere

      Because He’s coming again!

      God—Seen through the Eyes of the Greatest Minds

      www.SimonandSchuster.com

      © 2000 by Michael Caputo

      All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America

      Published by Howard Publishing Co., Inc.,

      3117 North 7th Street, West Monroe, Louisiana 71291-2227

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      No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the prior written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations within critical articles and reviews.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      God : seen through the eyes of the greatest minds / [compiled by] Michael Caputo.

      p. cm.

      Includes bibliographical references (p. ).

      ISBN 1-58229-132-2

      eISBN: 978-1-451-60481-8

      1. God—Quotations, maxims, etc. 2. Gifted persons—Quotations. I. Caputo, Michael, 1953—

      BL205 .G637 2000

      211—dc21   00-063233

      Edited by Philis Boultinghouse

      Interior design by LinDee Loveland

      Portrait drawings by Katherine Cody Kicklighter

      Scripture quoted from The Holy Bible, Authorized King James Version, © 1961 by The National Publishing Co.

      To the Highest God Be the Glory

      —Johann Sebastian Bach

      DEDICATION

      All pillars have a base. My base is my precious family.

      My beautiful wife, Leonilda, who has been there, body and soul for me and our children for many challenging years.

      My precious children, Anthony, Julie, and Victor, who give meaning and excitement to my life.

      My wonderful parents, Antonio and Teresa, who have molded me with much love. (Grazie mamma e papá per il vostro grande amore.)

      My loving in-laws, Vittorio and Giulia Checca, who have given us much in many ways. (I vostri sacrifici non saranno dimenticati.)

      My sister, Grace, and her children, Tony, Frank, Nino, and Lucy.

      My Aunt Maria and uncles Rocco, Philip, and Domenic.

      My brothers-in-law Greg and Nick, along with Nick’s wife, Alba, Nonna Gina, and all my other relatives.

      To them, and all my brothers and sisters in Christ in Italy and North America, I dedicate this work.

      Each pillar and base rests upon a foundation. My .sure foundation is the One this book is all about. To Him, The All, I offer this small sacrifice. In His hands, may it become a blessing to many.

      CONTENTS

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      GREAT ARTISTS

      Blake, William

      Buonarroti, Michelangelo

      Cézanne, Paul

      da Vinci, Leonardo

      Delacroix, Eugène

      Dürer, Albrecht

      Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique

      Renoir, Pierre Auguste

      Rubens, Peter Paul

      GREAT MUSICIANS

      Bach, Johann Sebastian

      Beethoven, Ludwig van

      Gluck, Christoph Willibald von

      Handel, George Frideric

      Haydn, Franz Joseph

      Liszt, Franz

      Mascagni, Pietro

      Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

      Puccini, Giacomo

      Purcell, Henry

      Rachmaninoff, Sergei Wassilievitch

      Stravinsky, Igor Fëdorovich

      Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich

      GREAT PHILOSOPHERS

      Bacon, Francis

      Bruno, Giordano

      Campanella, Tommaso

      Descartes, René

      Fichte, Johann Gottlieb

      Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

      James, William

      Kant, Immanuel

      Kierkegaard, Sören

      Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von

      Mill, John Stuart

      Pascal, Blaise

      Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni

      Rousseau, Jean Jacques

      Spinoza, Benedict de

      Voltaire

      Weil, Simone

      Wittgenstein, Ludwig

      GREAT SCIENTISTS

      Brahe, Tycho

      Copernicus, Nicolaus

      Einstein, Albert

      Faraday, Michael

      Galilei, Galileo

      Harvey, William

      Kepler, Johann

      Newton, Sir Isaac

      Pasteur, Louis

      GREAT WRITERS

      Alighieri, Dante

      Brontë, Emily

      Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

      Browning, Robert

      Chaucer, Geoffrey

      Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich

      Defoe, Daniel

      Deledda, Grazia

      Dickens, Charles

      Donne, John

      Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich

      Dryden, John

      Eliot, T.S.

      Emerson, Ralph Waldo

      Franklin, Benjamin

      Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

      Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich

      Heine, Heinrich

      Hugo, Victor

      Kafka, Franz

      Lamartine, Alphonse

      Leopardi, Giacomo

      Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

      Lowell, James Russell

      Manzoni, Alessandro

      Mazzini, Giuseppe

      Melville, Herman

      Milton, John

      Penn, William

      Petrarch, Francesco

      Pope, Alexander

      Pushkin, Alexander Sergeevich

      Rabelais, FranÇois

      Rilke, Rainer Maria

      Rossetti, Christina Georgina

      Shakespeare, William

      Shaw, George Bernard

      Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

      Stowe, Harriet Beecher

      Swift, Jonathan

      Tasso, Torquato

      Tennyson, Alfred

      Thoreau, Henry David

      Tolstoy, Leo

      Wordsworth, William

      Biographies

      Notes

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      My deepest gratitude goes, first of all, to my forbearing wife and children, who have endured my obsession with a book that has taken years to research and complete. Thank you, Leonilda, Anthony, Julie, and Victor, for your love and patience.

      Heartfelt appreciation to John Howard, president of Howard Publishing, for providing the opportunity for works such as mine to be published so as to edify and inspire the many who love their Creator. Special gratitude to Denny Boultinghouse, executive editor at Howard Publishing, for opening the door to the manuscript and to the managing editor, Philis Boultinghouse, a gracious and very supportive lady, for supervising the editing of this work with much patience and for her total committment to making this book worthy of the Almighty. My thanks, also, to Maxine Heath, production manager, for her invaluable help in understanding the foundational principles of copyright laws. Deep gratitude, also, to Lee Hankins, copyeditor, who has given this work countless hours of patient editing, and to two very talented ladies, Kathy Kicklighter, illustrator, and LinDee Loveland, graphic designer, who have made this work as attractive to the eye as it is to the intellect. Lastly, a special thank-you to a special Christian lady and a top translator, Renée Aviles, who was kind enough to help me translate some challenging and obscure French poetry.

      Most of all, I would like to thank the Almighty, who inspired this work at who motivated me to carry on with the task the many times I felt tired and discouraged.

      INTRODUCTION

      This work finds its roots in a question that emerged in my mind many years ago and for which I sought an answer. The question was this: Did great intellect and creativity lead brilliant men and women of the past to agnosticism or atheism, or did it lead them to believe in and submit to a Creator God?

      The search has been slow but very rewarding and enlightening. While you may not agree with all the views expressed by those quoted in this volume, you will find that most of the greatest men and women of the past were neither agnostics nor atheists. Most of them believed in God, and many made God the foundation of their lives. Surprisingly, belief in God was not always the result of intricate and time-consuming intellectual exercises, but it was, in many cases, the result of an intuitive experience. In fact, one can perceive in the writings of many great people a taking for granted of God’s existence and a moving forward toward understanding His Great Mind.

      To the great existential philosopher Sören Kierkegaard, trying to prove God’s existence was of all things most ridiculous.¹ Yet he believed in God. Kierkegaard believed that the works of God are such that only God can perform them.² Sir Isaac Newton, centuries ago, saw God’s presence and grandeur in nature. He held that humans may come to the knowledge of the Deity…by the frame of nature.³ Jean Jacques Rousseau saw God in the blackboard of nature, wherein he saw harmony and proportion.⁴ Ralph Waldo Emerson saw in creation a shadow of Him.⁵

      Some great minds chose to block out any interest in God but did not succeed forever. Heinrich Heine discovered God at a late age: In theology I must accuse myself of retrogression since I returned to the old superstition—a personal God.⁶ The great impressionist painter Paul Cézanne stated that once we have attained a great age we find no other support or consolation than in Religion.⁷ The English poet Robert Browning temporarily chose to follow Shelley’s example and adopted atheism. Later, he, too, returned to the belief in God and considered the existence of God as certain beyond the need of proof.⁸

      Belief in God has been an ennobling, energizing, and inspiring experience for many great men and women of genius. The great French painter Eugène Delacroix believed that God’s inner presence, beyond a doubt, constitutes the inspiration of men of genius.⁹ The great composer Franz Liszt was convinced that the Word of God reveals itself in the creations of genius.¹⁰ The great Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy believed that life is life, only when it is the carrying out of God’s purpose.¹¹ Johann Sebastian Bach concluded most of his works with Soli Deo Gloria (To God alone be the glory).¹² The scientific giant Albert Einstein stated that the driving force behind his scientific search was to know how God created this world…. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details.¹³

      What is also surprising is the number of great minds who adopted Christ as their Lord and Savior and who lived very devout Christian lives. Bach was a zealous Lutheran.¹⁴ Ludwig van Beethoven ended his life as a true Christian.¹⁵ Johann Goethe, toward the end of his life, affirmed that his love for the founder of Christianity could not be taken from him.¹⁶ Johann Kepler rested on Christ’s promise that Christians have awaiting them faithful mansions in the house of the Father.¹⁷ Rembrandt van Rijn was most probably a Mennonite.¹⁸ Tolstoy was beyond any doubt a sincere and practicing Christian.¹⁹ Dante Alighieri based his faith in his savior, Christ, the door of our eternal dwelling.²⁰ To Franz Schubert, his Savior was the glorious Christ.²¹ William Shakespeare ended his life affirming his faith in the saving power of Jesus Christ.²² Finally, the twentieth century’s greatest philosopher,

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