Therefore, however important the truth involved in the defining of the image of God in man
as creative self - transcendence, it can not constitute the main make - up of the image.
Again, how this is possible, be it in relation to God or to the environment as they present themselves, distinctly or indistinctly, to
me as a creative self - identifying unity, is a matter for further debate.
In the first place, he acts as a free agent, fulfilling his unique purposes
as a creative self.
Not exact matches
As it becomes easier — or at least more common — for members of the workforce to be self - employed or start their own businesses, you as a corporate manager have to come up with creative ways to keep your employees on payroll and be engage
As it becomes easier — or at least more common — for members of the workforce to be
self - employed or start their own businesses, you
as a corporate manager have to come up with creative ways to keep your employees on payroll and be engage
as a corporate manager have to come up with
creative ways to keep your employees on payroll and be engaged.
However, I would like him to hold some of the characteristics that an entrepreneur would need for success
as he grows up:
self - starter, problem solver, leader, passionate, and
creative to name a few
The
self - mentoring I then embarked on uses a «hypnotherapy style» framework emphasizing inducing deep relaxation followed by visualization
as outlined by Shakti Gawain in her book
Creative Visualization.
This fear of exposing yourself and your work holds many of us back from being our most
creative selves — and that goes for hugely successful artists
as well
as you and me.
Paying attention to the competition only slows you down because you're taking precious energy away from your thing and throwing it elsewhere along with decreasing your chances of truly operating
as your most
creative self because you're letting industry norms influence you.
As a poet, Ted Hughes had an acute sensitivity to the way in which constraints on
self - expression, like the disciplines of meter and rhyme, spur
creative thought.
After all, to actually quit your job and pursue a life
as an artist, a photographer, a freelancer, or another sort of
self - employed
creative entrepreneur isn't always the most responsible choice.
Creatives need to focus beyond
self to be successful
as an industrialist!
Rather,
self - starters have gained resilience
as a result possibly of struggle and are stepping forward with a certain mind - set: with higher levels of confidence relating to their leadership,
creative thinking and communication skills.
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.
Second, it identifies God's
self -
creative subjectivity solely with the constitution of his primordial nature,
as Ford argues at length in IPQ.
No mention is made of a Supreme Being in his own religious philosophy, only of a mysterious life - force or universal will - to - live which appears
as a
creative - destructive force in the world around us and
as a will - to -
self - realization - and - love within us.
This is the
creative process of woman - identified women which Janice Raymond describes
as becoming «
Self - created,» an «original woman, not fabricated by man» (OFF 7).
Granted that the primordial nature constitutes God's «free» (though unconscious), nontemporal decision, yet
as an actual entity he is completed by the conscious, temporal,
self -
creative propositional feelings he bears toward particular occasions.
It would seem right to regard
as truly «saved» anyone who has been given the grace of a high and noble purpose which draws him out of preoccupation with
self into a full
creative life which serves the development of community.
The atomism of the autonomous
self thus gives way to a sound sense of the community of being and the responsibility,
as well
as the opportunity, of being fulfilled within such a
creative nexus.
The Category of the Ultimate asserts that the
creative advance «is the universe always becoming one in a particular unity of
self - experience, and thereby adding to the multiplicity which is the universe
as many (PR 89).
The fact that Rinzai hoped for a
creative response is itself exemplary of the fact that, in Zen, the true
self includes volition
as well
as awareness.
Looked at from the point of view of its immediate pattern of
self - enjoyment, an actual entity can be regarded
as self -
creative.
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.
One way to reconcile the difficulty is to allow that persons act through influencing the
self - creation of actual occasions, to allow that a person is grounded in an astronomically large number of occasions
as objectified in comparison to the single occasion on the cutting edge of the
creative advance through which a person lives, endures, acts.
According to this thesis, religious perception begins with
self - valuation and broadens into the experience of the character of the
creative advance
as a matrix of interrelated values, and, finally, of ever - enlarging value.
As we have seen, what the examination of perception brings to light for Whitehead is an occasion of experience which is a
self -
creative process, a subject synthesizing past objects into a novel unity.
His object, therefore, the past event, is not only an eternal object but also a necessary object, an object that must be what it is, and is known rationally in apprehending this necessity; Par.39: Applying these results to our knowledge of nature: we regard nature
as a
self -
creative process and therefore
creative of eternal objects.»
Its technical definition is «positive prehension»; thus to be «felt» means to be included
as a prehended datum in an integrative, partly
self -
creative atom of process.
Suffice it to say that it reached its culmination, so far
as scriptural witness is concerned, in the affirmation that in Christ the Word (the
self - expressive
creative Activity which is divine in nature) «became flesh and dwelt among us,» while in formal theological statement the climax was the declaration that in him there is a genuine union of divine Activity («true God») and human activity like our own («true human being»).
But a church's smaller groups are the settings in which lonely people can best experience the reality of religion
as creative relationships — with
self, others, and God.
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.
In rejecting western philosophy's concept of the
self as substance based on Aristotle, Whitehead offers
as an alternative to substance what he calls «an actual entity» which is changing,
self - determined and
creative.
If localized individuals are to retain their character
as partly
self -
creative, then God's creativity is not the complete explanation of their activity (which is their «being»).
Limper thinks that the nature of things, the uniqueness of each
creative moment, is not fundamentally at odds with a drive for
self - realization that instrumentalizes nature
as part of its basic strategy.
He painstakingly tries to show that the
self is not a determined
self - enclosed substance, emphasizing instead the
self as self -
creative and
self - causative.
But God's primary goal is for each of us to be
as fully
self -
creative as possible, even if such creativity results in human oppression, and this is why God would not unilaterally keep
self -
creative individuals from abusing the freedom of others even if this could be done.
These two points, that the
creative process includes the lure of a telos and that the agent of creativity is responsible for its activity, serve
as a basis for the suggestion that
self - determination in
creative processes can be conceived in terms of two notions familiar to the philosophical tradition: eros and agape.
And this I take to be a generalized idea of «love»
as partly
self -
creative sympathy.
He says, «The world is
self -
creative; and the actual entity
as self - creating creature passes into its immortal function of part - creator of the transcendent world.
In the series, Scher describes her
creative process
as starting from a point of breaking down her own
self - awareness and allowing subconscious to take hold.
This he saw
as the thin sphere of
creative and
self - conscious human thought within the biosphere.
He pointed out that all God's actions are according to His eternal Logos — which «means both reason and word — a reason which is
creative and capable of
self - communication, precisely
as reason.»
Our minds are much more powerful, intricate, and potentially
creative (
as well
as destructive) than our conscious
self - understanding can even imagine.
Whitehead defined more precisely the character of determinateness in its becoming and of indeterminateness in its perishing
as a relationship between coherence and incoherence: «An actual entity... is
self -
creative; and in its process of creation transforms its diversity of rôles into one coherent rôle.
For Whitehead, the unit - actualities are «experiment occasions,» which are always in some degree «
self -
creative» and each such occasion contributes to the divine consciousness, which regards it with «tenderness» after it exists and inspires it with his ideal for its coming - to - be
as it comes into existence.
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.
The primary characteristics of any
self -
creative beings — and we must suppose that this holds pre-eminently for human beings — are freedom, transience, and novel purpose... The denial of rationality
as the primary character of experience involves the denial of principles
as external sources of order and thus entails the consequence that each aesthetic event will constitute its own source of order and novelty.
Because becoming has such importance for me
as self -
creative, and is not to be construed merely
as volatile being, it is apparent why my own view of God requires divine presence in the fount of becoming, not only in data prehended (cf. CC).
Some theologians, notably Reinhold Niebuhr, interpret the image of God in man
as man's capacity for
creative self - transcendence.