Sentences with phrase «analogy of being»

On the other hand, he teaches that there is a real analogy of being in creation that can be perceived by the eyes of faith.

A key to understanding the problem created by Ockham is the concept of analogy of being which was developed in detail by St. Thomas Aquinas and other Christian thinkers, most recently augmented by Hans Urs von Balthasar.

A frequent analogy of this is that of raisin - bread being baked.

Paradoxically, Barth's aversion to a metaphysics of the analogy of being results in limiting, not expanding, the scope of Christ's dominion.

The analogy of being is not an analogy of inequality, as if God and creation could be compared even if only for the purpose of demonstrating how dissimilar they are.

The analogy of being is nothing more than the philosophical form that the Roman Catholic Church takes as it embodies God's presence in the world.

In the thicket of Przywara's dense prose, it can be hard to discern what exactly any analogy is, let alone the analogy of being.

He was speaking of that which he saw articulated in the Catholic tradition of Eucharistic worship, as he understood it; yet his words unconsciously echoed a great deal that is most deeply characteristic of Dr. Karl Barth's criticism of what he regards as the very heart and centre of Catholic dogmatics, namely the doctrine of the analogy of being.

2 Various answers were proposed: Schleiermacher tried to base the presence of God in feelings of absolute dependence, Barth in direct revelation from God, Bultmann in existential experience of pure inwardness, Thomism in the analogy of being which leads to the awareness of Supreme Being, Tillich in asking the right questions about ultimate concern.3

Toward this end, Swain counsels against Barth's rejection of the «analogy of being,» the idea that we can know truths about God beginning from the philosophical consideration of creation.

Instead, it is confidently asserted that there is a similarity between time and eternity by virtue of the analogy of being.

If reason, even when informed by faith, can not proceed from creation to God, then Brunner should not defend the analogy of being or treat philosophical arguments for God as a legitimate part of Christian philosophy.

The analogy of being is the articulation of the teaching of the Fourth Lateran Council: «For between creator and creature there can be noted no similarity so great that a greater dissimilarity can not be seen between them.»

Traditionally our capacity to speak of, or apply our concepts to, God has found its foundation in the medieval concept of analogia entis, or analogy of being.

The analogy of being and the living GodIn my criticisms of the Christian appropriation of the visual arts, at least one commenter invoked «the analogy of being.»

In my criticisms of the Christian appropriation of the visual arts, at least one commenter invoked «the analogy of being.»

The analogy of being supposes that God has left a trace of himself in nature which indirectly and proportionately testifies of himself.

In process theology therefore the «analogy of being» which holds between God and the creatures must be related to a fully historical conception of what being is.

This requires appreciating anew the nature of symbolism, the analogy of being which it presupposes, and an alternative vision of mathematics, what Caldecott calls «the lost wisdom of the world».

Thomism, which follows the principles elaborated by St. Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274), employs the analogia entis or analogy of being.

If the categorial analysis of love explodes the notion that the conception of God must require absolute simplicity, unchangingness, and impassibility then the analogy of being may be understood so as to affirm a creative, temporal, and relational aspect in God's being.

The problem of a metaphysical theology is to carry through the analogy of being with full justice both to the structures of experience and to the transmutation of structures as they apply to the being of God.14 Whitehead, for example, who declares that in rational metaphysics God must exemplify the first principles of being, still has to allow for categorial differences between God's way of being and that of the finite actual occasions.

The doctrine that there is a «community of attributes» between God and the creatures is found in St. Augustine in his doctrine of the analogy of being.»

It lends itself to a philosophical affirmation of the analogy of being in which «higher» forms of complex life are more real, more a unity - in - being, precisely because of their specific dynamic relationships to their environment.

When he says that the higher levels are more causally «real», the Catholic philosopher may well recall the concept of the analogy of being, which we have mentioned in this column and elsewhere in previous issues of the magazine.

One is no less Catholic if one agrees with Duns Scotus on the univocity of being over against Thomas Aquinas» preference for the analogy of being, despite the fact that a large majority of theologians competent to have an opinion on the matter prefer Thomas over the Scot.

If I needed to understand and teach disputes about «the analogy of being,» treating being as a mere concept, or grammar, just wasn't going to help me understand the coherence of the claims.

Bonhoeffer rejects the analogy of being (analogia entis) for an analogy of relation (analogia relationis).

To help gain freedom around your eating habits, I like to use the analogy of being on a budget.

«To describe the concept of an emulsifier, I used the analogy of being at a dance, with boys on one side of the room and girls on the other.

If we run with the analogy of its being mostly dead, its hope for resuscitation and direction is definitely through recontextualisation.