Not exact matches
I take it that the «self - creative
unity of the universe» refers to the actual entity
insofar as it is a particular instance of creativity.
For, while Hartshorne allowed for the reality of structured societies and only specified that their
unity as compound individuals was effected through the presence and activity of a dominant personally ordered subsociety, Ford equivalently wants to eliminate the reality of structured societies altogether, at least
insofar as they function
as compound individuals rather than
as simple aggregates of occasions.
This composition can be greater or less only
insofar as what it includes is greater or less, so that the value for the whole depends upon the
unity - in - diversity realized in the fragmentary occasions of the world.
Infinite transcendence to being
as such, hence independence and indifference with regard to a definite finite object within the horizon of this absolute transcendence:, this infinite transcendence exists only
insofar as it envisages the original
unity of being in every act that is
Insofar as the several occasions are mutually supportive of one another, they also contribute, but should they clash, or be individually trivial, they detract from this final
unity of all actuality within God.
And,
insofar as we actualize a
unity of outlook and purpose with our peers through our common appreciation of the Christ - image, and our appropriation of this image
as the guiding principle of our lives, we realize ever more perfectly that mutual inherence in one another and in God that is at the same time present actuality and (in its perfection) goal for every actual occasion.
It is striking that he does not ground that
unity immediately in the ministerial duties for which the school prepares leadership
insofar as these duties fall into a coherent pattern around a pastoral director's proximate goal of nurturing community.
The appearance of the substance is not separate from its actual identity: it is the substance in action, in relation to its environment, changing and adapting to it but only
insofar as its formal
unity, given in its relationships, permits.