Sentences with phrase «as immutability»

Christian theology would be vastly different if the church fathers had done so instead of adhering closely to the Greek ideal of perfection as Immutability.

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This is an eyebrow - raising request, since the immutability of transaction records is one of the core features of cryptocurrency, and held as sacrosanct by many supporters of the technology.
ETC community members were staunch «code is law» followers, and viewed the hard - fork as a cop - out to the originally intended immutability.
The advantage of using Bitcoin's blockchain is that it offers features such as robustness and transparency, non-counterfeit ability, immutability, and ease of transfer, thus allowing asset manipulation with unprecedented ease of use and flash - forward security.
The advantages of blockchain such as security and immutability, are major drawcards for companies that rely heavily on record keeping, such as healthcare, finance, and even art.
Blockchain technology can easily remedy the weaknesses of web - based social - finance apps, as the distributed apps that run on a blockchain («Dapps») provide immutability, security, privacy, and efficiency.
As an enabler of cost reductions, transparency, and immutability, a fair amount of firms within the newly coined «fintech industry» have developed blockchain - based solutions for the tracking of marketable items like commodities, assets, and securities.
Instead of perfection as unchangeableness or immutability, they speak of perfection as love in its highest and fullest degree, adapting itself unceasingly to concrete situations.
When they spoke of God's eternal bliss and immutability, they weren't surrendering to a static, Greek conception of God so much as they were seeking to understand the implications of Scriptural affirmations such as «I Am That I Am» (Exodus 3:14).
Immutability, impassibility, and doctrines such as the eternal generation of the Son have been abandoned or reduced in importance by large sections of the evangelical world.
In The Crucified God (originally, 1972), an intentionally provocative title, Moltmann saw clearly that traditional Christian thought tried to resolve the tension between God's love and God's self - contained immutability by championing the Stoic elevation of apatheia as a way of characterizing a divine love that is no in way affected by the recipient of that love.
First, he believes that in the modern era, the Church Fathers» ideas about divine attributes, traditionally dear to Catholics and Protestants alike — such as divine perfection, simplicity, eternity, and immutability — have to be evaluated anew in light of a narrative reading of the Gospel.
Take any traditional objection to accepting the old Platonic analogy of God as the World Soul and it can be shown that the objection stands or falls with aspects of a tradition which philosophy has been moving away from since the middle ages — for instance ideas of sheer infinity, sheer immutability, also what is usually meant by omnipotence.
The immutability of Jesus as the SP harbors primarily a message of hope of life and not judgment.
It is therefore inappropriate to accentuate, as has been done in some past evangelical experience, the immutability of Christian truth once formulated, as if that authority were enjoyed by our articulations rather than being reserved to the canonical texts themselves and the historical events behind them.
But Calvin emphasized the immutability of God as much as the earlier substance - oriented theologians had done.
More specifically, I shall contend that Hartshorne's arguments against the Thomistic denials of internal relatedness, potentiality, complexity, and contingency (of some properties), arguments that I take to be wholly successful, do not, as Hartshorne seems to suppose, suffice also to dispose of the Thomistic doctrines of omnipotence, immutability, nontemporality, creation ex nihilo, and unsurpassibility even by self.
This manifests itself not only in the way in which Aristotelian notions of the «unmoved mover» or neo-Platonic ideas of «being - subsisting from - itself» have been taken to be the proper definition of what is meant when we speak of «God», but also in liturgical language where all too often the basic concept implied or (as most often seems to be the case) affirmed is the utter immutability of deity, along with the rigidly legalistic moralism which it is suggested should mark those who claim to «obey» the divine mandates.
God's eternity and immutability have been contrasted with the ephemeral character of historical events in such a way as to depreciate efforts at social transformation.
We are invited to acknowledge the immutability of the moral law, and to place ourselves under its judgment even as we also recognize Anna's placement.
God's immutability and God's impassibility as apatheia are two sides of one coin.
Underlying all these reflections is Aquinas» modification of the doctrine of divine immutability through his appropriation of Aristotle's definition of the Highest Being as the «Unmoved Mover.»
Nevertheless, these operations show that there exists no such immutability in the traditional form of bourgeois property as it exists in our countries.
To assert the divine immutability is to assert the immutability of soul, at least as soul is collected into itself and not dispersed and confused by its transitory and traumatic union with the body.
But as many «culturist» critics of science note, this belief is belied by the fact that apologists for science tend to defend their position by passionate appeals to the universality and immutability of the «laws of nature» that science progressively and objectively discovers: laws that it would be absurd to view as socially constructed.3 Such an objection, however, fails to take note of the fact that, as Whitehead puts it, «Nature is patient of interpretation in terms of Laws which happen to interest us» (AI 136).
From Plato, who defined time as a moving (i.e., imperfect) image of eternity, down to St. Thomas, who stressed the perfect immutability of his Supreme Being in terms indistinguishable from the language of the Eleatic school, we can trace the same persistent theme — a metaphysical dichotomy of Being and Becoming, of perfection and imperfection, of the timeless and the temporal realms.
In the corpus of Augustine's works the subject is not so much argued, through logical procession, as posited, through a myriad of analogies presumably demonstrating the superiority of immutability over being subject to change.
I do not aim to use this criticism to justify social conservatism or conservationism «on the sly», since this reifies immutability to just as damaging an extent as materialism glorifies innovation.
Taking this as a starting point, the exhibition will serve as an interconnected journey incorporating 45 works exploring experience, effect and event, invoking immediacy and immutability.
However the monotonously low general quality of recently arrived misconceptions and their carriers at RC along with the misconceptions» immutability and carriers» unwillingness to assimilate facts seems the same now as it did several years ago.
As Midasium's site notes, blockchain's characteristics align quite well with the requirements of real estate transactions: durability, transparency, immutability, longevity, and reliability and availability of data.
Over the past 12 months, blockchain technology has been marketed as a magical technology behind bitcoin that allows any banking system or financial network to achieve the same level of immutability of bitcoin.
The immutability and decentralized nature of public blockchain networks, such as bitcoin and Ethereum, could allow governments to process large amounts of sensitive information on an unchangeable and transparent platform.
The project's aim is to preserve original Ethereum with immutability and decentralisation as its core characteristics.
At the same time,» they will not lack in security and immutability», which are two of the driving factors behind blockchain technology as a whole.
Further, the hard fork strikes at the root of the recent discussions around immutability and the best way to make updates to public blockchains, a discussion also happening in bitcoin as well.
Ethereum Classic is the original blockchain, the one that kept the original rules before the hard fork, and whose adherence to the immutability (i.e. irreversibility) aspect attracted supporters as a result.
«The immutability of a public blockchain like Bitcoin's and / or Ethereum's could serve as a unifying structure for the proof - of - certificates globally,» Papageorgiou said.
However, without the security provided by the computing power of the Bitcoin Blockchain, the property prized most — immutability — is no longer a given and is just one hack away from someone corrupting not just identity information, but real value as well.
Its immutability is what makes it so attractive as a technology, especially for data storage.
Since then, many projects have come to use the feature as a means to store information and to power decentralized applications on the blockchain, leveraging its transparency and immutability.
As Andreas Antonopoulos said, «Immutability is not a waste of energy.
By using the blockchain's security and immutability as advantages, as well as the universal character of the PeerAssets protocol, Indicium plans to apply index trading to the world of cryptocurrencies.
For one, cryptocurrency advocates claim that immutability can only be achieved through decentralized economic mechanisms such as proof - of - work.
It is worth noting, that the description of Ethereum Classic says that the project's aim is to preserve original Ethereum with immutability and decentralisation as its core characteristics.
Just as the notary operates, the immutability of the Bitcoin blockchain makes sure signed votes are transparent and can never be forged.
Cryptocurrency advocates claiming that immutability can only be achieved through decentralized economic mechanisms such as proof - of - work.
«Unless someone comes out with a groundbreaking new idea that revolutionizes bitcoin and adds features to it that improve its immutability and its resistance to being taken over... I just don't see them [forks] as viable competitors.»
According to the description of Ethereum Classic, the project's aim is to preserve the original Ethereum with immutability and decentralisation as its core characteristics.
We take descriptions of the blockchain's emergent properties such as «immutability» and «decentralization,» and often seem to conclude these are magical passive properties of blockchain which can be dragged and dropped onto any application.
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