Sentences with phrase «workable idea of god»
«A workable idea of God is one which enables us to join ourselves with his working in such a way as to promote it and to be sustained and strengthened and enriched by it....
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Even if such study leads us to something comparatively unromantic or unexciting, like «electrons, or the organic chemistry of the living cell, or the autonomic nervous system or the sun or anything else, then the workable idea of God would say: Lo, this is God.
The next expression of Wieman's thinking of significance for this study appears in The Christian Century for February 14, 1929, under the title «A Workable Idea of God.»
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One motive was clearly Wieman's concern for a «workable» idea of God, one concrete and specific enough to engage human effort.