A weakened Maku Tree explains that Link must go find the eight
Essences of Nature in order to restore him to his former state.
Not exact matches
The digital
nature of the ledger means that blockchain transactions can be tied to computational logic and
in essence programmed.
Dragon energy
in nature is the
essence of creation, and it powers up everything
in nature, like how electricity powers up our homes today.
There would be no need to «make» God share
in man's adventure or be affected by human actions according to Whitehead, for such is the
nature of God: «Decay, Transition, Loss, Displacement belong to the
essence of Creative Advance» (Al 368 - 69).
Christianity
in its
essence does not look upon sex as something which belongs to the lowest part
of human
nature, but as a power which leads to one
of the highest forms
of communion.
13 This freedom is not conditioned
in any way by anything other than Godself: «God loves because he loves; because this act is His being, His
essence and His
nature... God's loving is necessary, for it is the being, the
essence and the
nature of God,» but this is a necessity grounded
in God's freedom and nowhere else.14
Bonhoeffer was adamant
in his belief that it was impossible to know the objective truth about the real
essence of Christ's being -
nature (Christ the Center, pp. 30, 88, 100 - 101).
«The
essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life
of Christ as a revelation
of the
nature of God and
of his agency
in the world.
My question boils down to: Why would a perfect all loving, all powerful, all knowing god CREATE the VERY
ESSENCE of evil, and would that not indicate that god is evil
in nature?
The figures stay there, reclining
in their recurring sequence, forever showing the
essences in the
nature of things.
Jesus is the imago Dei uncorrupted, so that John's Gospel can insist that, for Jesus, «Whoever has seen me has seen the Father» (14:9).4
In light
of this realization, three provocatively new foci will occupy our immediate attention: the proclamation
of the impending arrival
of the basileia tou theou; the significance
of the crucifixion (and resurrection)
of Jesus for understanding the
nature of divine power; and the Johannine conviction that love characterizes the very
essence of God.
However, it should be realized that Santayana thinks this relation
of substantial inheritance (like that
of «lateral tension»), as an external one, is simply uncapturable
in terms
of essence, so that, as real as it is, no truth about it can quite capture its
nature.
On the face
of it Santayana rejects all three
of these departures from the tradition, since (1) he makes no very explicit move from a continuant to an event ontology, (2) regards the inherent
nature of an object as a matter
of the individual eternal
essence which it actualizes and (3) regards the distinction between matter and form as at least a virtually inevitable way
of expressing the obscure manner
in which one state
of things takes over from another (see RB 278 - 284).
The
natures are preserved
in their qnume, (qnume: It is the
essence of a given
nature in concrete, realized form.
Where differences come
in, is
in the
nature of the process and the
essence of how the Scriptures are God's Word.
There are three spheres, says Buber,
in which the world
of relation is built: our life with
nature, our life with men, and our life with «intelligible
essences.»
In order to follow Kant one must suppress one's existential subjectivity in favour of a rational objectivity in which one participates only by virtue of having previously defined the essence of value as one's rational natur
In order to follow Kant one must suppress one's existential subjectivity
in favour of a rational objectivity in which one participates only by virtue of having previously defined the essence of value as one's rational natur
in favour
of a rational objectivity
in which one participates only by virtue of having previously defined the essence of value as one's rational natur
in which one participates only by virtue
of having previously defined the
essence of value as one's rational
nature.
It is indeed a difficult task to «switch gears» from a theology based on static, spatial models alone, such as the
essence of God, the
natures of Christ, and the substance
of bread and wine, to a theology that is concerned with spatio - temporal models, such as change
in God, Christ becoming divine, and the on - going process
of revelation.
Very differently, The
Essence of Religion locates the subjective source
of religion
in human dependence on
nature.
The central thought
in The
Essence of Christianity is that the supposedly superhuman deities
of religion are actually the involuntary projections
of the essential attributes
of human
nature.
Everything that is actual participates
in the same kind
of existence, what might be called the
essence or
nature of actuality.
The same is true
of horse and horsiness; the early foetus horse is as much and as perfectly horse
in essence,
in nature, as is the mature winner
of the Grand National.
Not only is it separate from
nature, but it is also a higher form
of existence insofar as it corresponds to its concept, that is, it is able to realize its
essence, something
nature is
in principle incapable
of doing.
Whereas there belongs to the
essence of a spiritual being an ever - open ontological transcendence towards being
in general, and so a rising above and beyond self, for example to the participation
in the divine
nature through grace and glory, if made possible from above by grace, is always possible, without this agent having to lose the
essence that was until then its own.
It does not belong to the «
essence»
of the finite efficient cause and is not an intrinsic constitutive factor
of its «
nature», but, while transcending this
nature, belongs to it precisely as its ground
in relation to it as agent and cause.
If change really involves self - transcendence even,
in certain circumstances, to a new
essence, even though only
in virtue
of the dynamism
of absolute Being, which
of course does not, let it be repeated, alter the fact that it is a question
of self - transcendence; if matter and spirit are not simply disparate
in nature but matter is
in a certain way «solidified» spirit, the only significance
of which is to serve to make actual spirit possible, then an evolutionary development
of matter towards spirit is not an inconceivable idea.15 If there exists at all by virtue
of the motion
of absolute Being, a change
in the material order whereby this rises above itself, then this self - transcendence can only occur
in the direction
of spirit, because the absolute Being is spirit.
So if
in its becoming it were to move beyond itself, even
in the sense
of transcending its own
essence, that would not involve the positing
of a purely disparate being absolutely alien to its
nature and
in that sense a generatio aequivoca absolutely speaking.
For Niebuhr, the dimension
of freedom was the most significant element
in human
nature; it is the
essence of man
in the image
of God.
It is the extracted
essence of Wisdom that we seek to mobilize our lives
in harmony with
nature, culture and environments...
Spirituality and religiosity for us Asians are not just matters
of personal option but inbuilt
in the very
essence of our
nature: rich or poor, educatedor not.
6 There is no a priori human
nature.7 Sartre denies the possibility
of finding «
in each and every man a universal
essence that can be called a human
nature.»
Ockham rejected the real existence
of a human
nature because he had concluded that one can only know particular individuals and that universals that can be applied to multiple individuals, such as human
nature, or the
essence of a dog or a tree, or properties such as white or black, square or round were only names that we create
in our mind.
Dogmatic Formulations The Catechism also presents the various terms used by the Magisterium
of the Church with regard to the Trinity (
in particular substance /
essence /
nature, person / hypostasis and fnally relation) and also the various key points
of doctrine that need always to be kept
in mind.
In relation to the animal then, we can speak
of a human
nature that is common to every man, but we must be careful to make the qualification that this is a relative «
essence.»
Whereas the Biosphere
in its
essence is complexity linked but divergent and diffused, the Noosphere combines
in itself the properties
of a planetary zone (or sphere) and those
of a sort
of higher individuality endowed with something
in the
nature of a super-consciousness.)
The blackness
of God then means that the
essence of the
nature of God is to be found
in the concept
of liberation.7
To compel others to do the same is the
essence of tyranny, the abdication
of legitimate authority, as the Chief Justice himself states
in his dissent: that is the
nature of it.
As with man,
in Jesus» sense, there can be no distinction between his
nature and his actions which are the result
of his
nature, but the actual
essence of man is present
in action, likewise God is present where He is active.
In essence, the rhetorical weight of his argument seems to assume God's existence in the first place, which makes the argument fundamentally circular in natur
In essence, the rhetorical weight
of his argument seems to assume God's existence
in the first place, which makes the argument fundamentally circular in natur
in the first place, which makes the argument fundamentally circular
in natur
in nature.
Belief
in non-violence is based on the assumption that human
nature in the
essence is one, and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances
of love.31
In the «secret
of individuality» we find the
essence and destiny
of human
nature.
When God wills that, for the perfection
of the work
of creation and the salvation
of mankind, he should take upon himself a created
nature, he wills that T shall be a man, so that the human
nature of God lives through the Divine 1», through the DivinePerson
of the Word, who subsists
in the
Essence of God.
Aquinas clarified the doctrine by identifying God, the First Mover, with infinite Existence (Esse) and then distinguishing
essences («what something is», the equivalent
of nature - substance) from existence
in created realities.
The central issue
in the early debates between Fundamentalists and Modernists was on the question whether the gospel should emphasize as the
essence of the gospel, deliverance
of the humans from sinfulness or affirmation
of the human vocation to creativity and cooperation with God
in recreating
nature and society according to the purpose
of God.
If all is to be conceived by analogy with our human
nature, then either Spinoza is right and the eternal, immutable
essence of the cosmic soul necessitates everything
in the cosmic body, and there is no chance, randomness, or genuinely open alternatives either within the world or as between this and other possible worlds; or there is freedom both
in our decisions and
in God's.
Thus he was «a substance whose whole
essence or
nature consists only
in thinking, and which, that it may exist, has need
of no place, nor is dependent on any material thing» (3:27).
Because
of that aspect
of creativity, there can be no ultimate explanation for the specific characters
of things, except their own
nature, i.e. their creativity: what they are does not follow from the
essence of ultimate Being (as
in Spinoza), nor from the ultimate decision
of a God.
By understanding presence as something more than «mere appearances,» Dillenberger has come to consider abstraction the pictorial procedure by which artists penetrate beneath the visible surfaces
of nature in search
of a subject's «
essence» or deeper truth.
The
essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life
of Jesus as a revelation
of the
nature of God's activity
in the world.
Christian thought has traditionally,
of necessity, defined evil as a privation
of the good, possessing no
essence or
nature of its own, a purely parasitic corruption
of reality; hence it can have no positive role to play
in God's determination
of Himself or purpose for His creatures (even if by economy God can bring good from evil); it can
in no way supply any imagined deficiency
in God's or creation's goodness.