Sentences with phrase «as creative power»

In this sense, the artistic processes are analyzed as a creative power that allows understanding different phenomena far from the traditional disciplines.

Because we try to discuss God as creative power, and not only as persuasion, and because Whitehead seems to identify God and creativity, we appear to be saying that God is responsible for the endurance of evil as well as presenting to us persuasive lures of greater value.

«15 We suggest that this ambiguity is caused by the failure to develop the notion of God as creative power, and to relate more coherently this notion with the concepts of objective immortality and efficient causation.

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By bringing together people of different backgrounds, you gain the ability to escape a single group's echo chamber and avoid errors caused by groupthink; the power to act as a connector or translator between different circles; and the immense creative potential of combining ideas from different fields.

«It has the power to influence public debate, mobilize communities, and — most importantly — offer creative solutions to help people receive better care, no matter where they live or who they are,» write Richards and Karp, who believe that the tech industry owes its success to both of its employees as well as the communities it serves, whose health needs are often partially met by Planned Parenthood itself.

Levin — who describes himself as 80 percent business acumen and 20 percent creative power — is, in a way, a bizarro - Hardwick.

As for the brain's positive explosive forces, we'll explore where the creative spark comes from, how to nurture them when they come — and how to turn those brainstorms into a worthy invention — with two individuals who have harnessed that power themselves: serial inventor and CEO of United Therapeutics Martine Rothblatt and James Park, cofounder and CEO of Fitbit.

As game play shifts from the console to the smartphone, the balance of power has tipped in favor of upstarts like Bolt Creative and Imangi Studios.

We believe our job as venture capitalists is to magnify the creative power of entrepreneurs through relationships, education and resources essential to their success.

Agility met scale as established market leaders and innovators from across the industry gathered in this invitation - only environment designed to power intimate, candid discussions and uncover creative solutions to our pressing challenges.

After a decade of creative chair arrangements, attractive power point, relevant movie clips, and of course, the gamut of «praise music» (Hosanna, Hillsong, Passion, Tomlin), I decided to test the waters of true worship (as opposed to vicarious worship) by having a Sunday service (just one!)

establish the substance of God as shown in the Bible to be the eternal state ----- The bible, and any religion, is 100 % unecessary to have a notion or belief in «God», or a higher spiritual / creative power.

Whoever wants to replace the Creator's realization of this plan by a totally autonomous evolution, inevitably either ascribes some mythic creative power to evolution, or else abandons any attempt at rational understanding and explains everything as the blind play of arbitrary chance.

God's creative power does not in fact fashion us as though out of soft clay: it is a fire that kindles life in whatever it touches, a quickening spirit.

A strategy of transformation in terms of gaining and using political power is as necessary as the emergence of a creative minority of utopian dreamers.

As a result of the brief, violent moment of crisis in which it became conscious at once of its creative power and of its critical faculties, humanity has quite legitimately become hard to move: no stimulus at the level of mere instinct or blind economic necessity will suffice for long to goad it into moving onwards.

Where human holiness offers itself as a means to his ends, God is not content to send forth in greater intensity his creative influence, the child of his power: he himself comes down into his work to consolidate its unification.

«I acclaim you as the divine milieu, charged with creative power, as the ocean stirred by the Spirit, as the clay moulded and infused with life by the incarnate Word.

It can make itself known as need long before we know its creative and healing power.

Concludes Wright: «It is as though... «the word of the YHWH» is like an enormous reservoir, full of creative divine wisdom and power, into which the prophets and other writers tap by God's call and grace, so that the word may flow through them to do God's work of flooding or irrigating his people.»

Though the past as inherited sets the realizable limits and opportunities for the moment's creative power, the eventual creation with all its determinate detail could never have existed nor subsisted before it is created, not even in a primordial vision of potentialities.

It affirms the autonomy of the human being and it involves as a consequence the rejection of every attempt to rob of human person creative power.

This is along the same lines as how Christians assert that a tree is evidence of the creative powers of their God.

who innocently suffers the consequences of other people's injustices, and who as the creative Word of God has the power and authority to identify with every victim of injustice and, as the one who suffers at our hands, grants us absolution from our evil.

The agreement between black power and neoclassical philosophies can, therefore, be symbolized by transforming the black power slogan — «Power to the People» — into a more neoclassical formulation — Creative Synthesis to the People; and, conversely, the philosophy of creative synthesis may be understood as a metaphysical affirmation of the social ethical imperative to empower the pepower and neoclassical philosophies can, therefore, be symbolized by transforming the black power slogan — «Power to the People» — into a more neoclassical formulation — Creative Synthesis to the People; and, conversely, the philosophy of creative synthesis may be understood as a metaphysical affirmation of the social ethical imperative to empower the pepower slogan — «Power to the People» — into a more neoclassical formulation — Creative Synthesis to the People; and, conversely, the philosophy of creative synthesis may be understood as a metaphysical affirmation of the social ethical imperative to empower the pePower to the People» — into a more neoclassical formulation — Creative Synthesis to the People; and, conversely, the philosophy of creative synthesis may be understood as a metaphysical affirmation of the social ethical imperative to empower theCreative Synthesis to the People; and, conversely, the philosophy of creative synthesis may be understood as a metaphysical affirmation of the social ethical imperative to empower thecreative synthesis may be understood as a metaphysical affirmation of the social ethical imperative to empower the people.

For Hartshorne, to be actual at all is to be an instance of creative synthesis, and this means to have power to be partially determinative of self and others, as well as to have the capacity to be partly determined by other selves.

An event of a highly distinctive kind and of incalculable creative power occurred in first century Palestine; it was remembered as centered in and taking its character largely from a certain Jewish teacher and prophet.

On the other, there are those who emphasize the subjective side of knowledge and look on education as the development of creative powers or as the ingestion of the environment in accordance with subjective need or interest.

It begins where women in theology attempt to deconstruct basic ethical principles such as «the common good» and «the question of moral power and authority,» but from there it moves to the creative impulses we see around us, as women in faith and faithfulness reconstruct the future image and face of the Church as a «community of Christ, bought with a price, where everyone is welcome, «14 as Letty Russell describes it.

They do have their own active and creative manner of collectively representing their historicity, which I am arguing, is closely intertwined with their experience with what they take to be the Divine Power, Ellaiyamman as the goddess of the Paraiyars is a pivotal symbol of the source (and the hope of protection) of this distinct physical and conceptual space: she conserves their geographic space by guarding their particularity as a community and she represents their conceptual space as self - reflective human beings.

The relation of God's purposings to the historical situation suggests his role as source of the power that makes for creative transcendence of the given.

Personality, the most valuable thing in the universe, revealing the real nature of the Creative Power and the ultimate meaning of creation, the only eternal element in a world of change, the one thing worth investing in, and in terms of service to which all else must be judged — that is the essential Christian creed [As I See Religion (Harper & Brothers, 1932), P. 44].

The creative and more compulsive power of God as a concrete process is not emphasized (see ibid., p. 523).

God's role as cosmic ordering power, according to Hartshorne, is to define the limits within which localized creative activity occurs.

In either case, the arrival of man — as distinguished from merely his carcass — necessarily involved a creative act and a power outside the realm of material nature where scientific knowledge is sovereign.

As with the approach to personal suffering, the intention is to engage the creative power of mind, and through a shift in consciousness to generate a corresponding transformation of external conditions.

He argues that God»... is not «omnipotent» in the Thomistic sense, as the power effectively to choose that any possible world, no matter which, shall be actual «7 The reason that God does not have this power is that each actual occasion is a creative entity which, within limits, determines itself.

To think of God as acting in dynamic relation to His creatures not merely as one actor among many, but as the universal creative power which sustains all things, and without which they could neither be nor act, is true to what our best knowledge of the world tells us.

Someone who is totally trustworthy, totally dependable, totally loving, totally powerful, someone named with words such as «God,» «Higher Power,» «Allah,» «Creative Life Source,» or others.

creation, as the CCC describes it, the angels were to have much more than a supervisory role, and that when some of them fell he did not remove their power to influence the evolutionary or transformative creative process, anymore than when we act badly he removes our power to affect the historical process.

For Man, by the act of «noospherically» concentrating himself upon himself, not only becomes reflectively aware of the ontological current on which he is borne, but also gains control of certain of the springs of energy which dictate this advance: above all, collective springs, in so far as he consciously realizes the value, biological efficiency and creative nature of social organization; but also individual springs m as much as, through the collective work of science, he feels himself to be on the verge of acquiring the power of physicochemical control of the operations of heredity and morphogenesis in the depths of his own being.

33:4, 6, 9) Man shared in this creation, taking physical and intellectual possession of the world by his giving names to all living creatures (Gen. 2:19) Throughout the Old Testament, in ordinary and sublime statements, in magic or prophecy, Israel took as her starting point the conviction that a word possesses creative power.

When we Africans acknowledge this by associating the spiritual powers we feel around us with these other manifestations of God's creative power, we are despised as pagans, worshiping trees and stones.

If one thinks of the universal creative powers (or however he customarily considers God) as becoming concentrated within the limits of a human body, the assertion is pure nonsense.

We do not deny or circumscribe the Creator, because we hold he has created the self - acting originating human mind, which has almost a creative gift; much less then do we deny or circumscribe His power, if we hold that He gave matter such laws as by their blind instrumentality moulded and constructed through innumerable ages the world as we see it... Mr Darwin's theory need not then be atheistical, be it true or not; it may simply be suggesting a larger idea of Divine Prescience and Skill... At first sight I do not see that «the accidental evolution or organic beings» is inconsistent with divine design - It is accidental to us, not to God.»

They see it as a devaluation of man, a repression of the self's vital impulses, and an unwillingness to affirm its creative power.

Just as the most intense energy of the male and the most enduring persistence of the female principle form the unlimited power of nature, as love and life consist in separating and uniting, in restlessness and steadiness, in energy and being, so the creative and the receptive forces work to produce the perfect creation of genius: the more matter is formed by the creative force, the more intense the struggle, the greater the effect.

When a late Isaiah represents God as saying, «I dwell... with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite,» (Isaiah 57:15) the question rises in the mind of one who understands from within what the implied experience means: If God so cares for persons one by one and so dwells in them with creative power, is it not impossible that the relationship will be summarily terminated at death?

But as the sequel shows, the woman revels in her exalted status as creator: upon the birth of Cain, the first horn, it is Eve who boasts of her creative power while Adam is speechless, and Cain hears the name of her pride.

Quite apart from the obvious limitations and ambiguities of his natural finiteness, man uses his creative moral power not only for constructive ends but for destructive ones as well.