Sentences with phrase «as pure act»

10 In On the Power of God (Quaestiones disputatae de potentia, 1266), he argued that God's existence and essence are identical, 11 wherefore there can be no admixture in God of both action and potentiality.12 Equally, as pure act, God can not be «composite» but must be «utterly simple.»

Its corollary, in Aquinas, is «passive» or receptive power, the capacity to be acted upon.15 As pure act, God is active only.

The complex substance is a unity of being because a «thing» is what God knows it to be -LSB-... T] he Being of God -LSB-...] as Pure Act is the only sufficient reason for the unity and entity of every form of being, and the overall unity... of Nature.»

If I were forced to choose between God as temporal and God as pure act (or as a timeless singular actual entity).

Not exact matches

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The parallel theme plays out in saying the act of sex is wicked outside of marriage and can only be made pure by the institution of marriage as defined and administered by the church.

It is the man and the woman to whom the act remains, each time, as fresh and beautiful, as it was the first time, who are able to sustain and perpetuate their first sense of its glory in the midst of the sober or bleak or sordid realities of day to day life, and who can feel, afresh each time, a boundless gratitude for each other and for this blessed source of sweetness and strength — it is they who are the truly «virgin», the truly pure and chaste; and (on the Humanist hypothesis) it is they who are the remnant selected by grace to be the true and spiritual seed of the risen Christ.33

Whereas earlier theology spoke of God as Goodness as such, whose every act (by virtue of divine simplicity) expresses His nature, the spectre that haunts late Scholastic thought is a God whose will precedes His nature, and whose acts then are feats of pure spontaneity.

He came because God loved mankind, but because we are ALL born sinners and can't approach a holy, pure God in our sinful state, Jesus had to come to die so that His innocent blood might act as a shield to cover us and make us acceptable to God again Romans 3:23, Romans 6:23, John 3:16.

As an act of pure love he created a world and he «founded the earth to endure» (Ps.

Is there recognition of the advantage of locating the act of compassion historically, or are most Pure Land Buddhists content with a mythical account recognized as mythical?

In his view faith understands itself as the pure gift of God, a God who is imaged as acting from above and may be thought of by analogy with human persons.

That is to say, man is not, as pure naturalism would have it, merely an object in nature which is acted upon and reacts according to fixed general laws, a passive receiver of prior causes and a non-willing, non-responsible transmitter of future effects, whose consciousness and action are completely caught up in the causal nexus of matter and time.

The question, therefore, is whether such a concept of a cause to which the infinite reality of pure act belongs as a factor constituting it without becoming an intrinsic constituent of the entity of the finite cause itself, but in some way remains free, detached from the process of becoming, but provides the real ground of the self - transcending operation of the finite agent itself, is a valid and demonstrable concept, or only a paradoxical and intrinsically self - contradictory construction which can only conceal the fact that our thought has reached an impasse.

We will do better to keep to the old categories of almighty God and eternal God, because, as God is utterly and totally Being, «pure act», and the transcendental source of all dependent reality, these ancient categories of natural theology are going to be true.

• For an act to be moral, all three considerations need to be held in balance - the act itself has to be objectively good, the intention has to be pure, and the consequences not harmful, insofar as they can be known.

As St. Thomas had taught her, God is pure act, the first and final cause of everything.

Even before he finished his comprehensive Summa Theologica (1265 — 72), Aquinas articulated his key understanding of God as actus purus, «pure act.»

In that concept, God was devoid of any physical dimension, being rather an entirely conceptual act of valuation of pure eternal objects, that is, of eternal objects in themselves, rather than as actualized in temporal actual entities.

Ultimately, as he states, the God creative enough «to make the entire observable universe in a dense dot of pure energy is incomprehensible, beyond human imagining,» but still «we can see the consequences of this unimaginably powerful creative act: a universe congenial to the ultimate formation of life, life giving rise to intelligence that can ask questions science can not answer.

«It becomes a pure act of consciousness, and leads to a spirituality which is just as bare of content as the hypothetical absolute» (Civilization, p. 302).

And just as in human contacts the new understanding created by encountering another in love and trust is kept pure only when it permanently retains its connection with the other who is encountered, so too the self - understanding granted by faith never becomes a possession, but is kept pure only as a response to the repeated encounter of the Word of God, which proclaims the act of God in Christ in such a way as continually to represent it.

It is not pure potency, but so long as it is action or movement, neither is it act.

My strong conviction is that this God is self - disclosed in the total event of Jesus of Nazareth — and is there disclosed as nothing other than «pure unbounded Love», as Love - in - act, as (if you will) the cosmic Lover.

In the third century stress fell on defining action as ascetical practice, as «acts» ultimately directed at oneself to purify one of all engagements with the everyday world that distract from pure contemplation.

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I am not trying to say» well done for showing middle finger to cowboy», but I could see thats just how they really are... but someone like e.g. Colby, is pure cringe, fake as hell WWE style trash talk just trying to get attention, or Chale Sonnen, he was just throwing WWE style jokes to sell a fight, just acting.

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The landing page is pure fundraising, with no persuasion or non-monetary list - building to act as a distraction.

Akande retorted: «Interpreting reasonable and regular communication between the acting president and the president as teleguiding of one by the other is simply curious in the least or perhaps pure mischief.

Researchers have taken yet another step toward creating super-tiny circuits using nanotubesthose miniature straws of pure carbon that can conduct electricity, mimic transistors, act as quantum wires and perform a number of other neat electrical tricks.

20 Snow is near - pure crystallized water, but when it collects on the ground it acts as a reservoir for atmospheric pollutants such as mercury and soot.

The magnetite - mediated mechanism seems to act as part of a magnetic map - or signpost sense, which could provide the animal with information about its geographic position, whereas the vision - mediated magnetic sense seems to be a pure compass sense that is based on radical - pair processes in the birds» eye (s)[for reviews], [see e.g. 8, 9].

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In the Gita, Krishna describes the karma yogi as one who «feels pure contentment and finds perfect peace in the Self — for him, there is no need to act.»

Vibrational energy from the crystal bowls acts as a resonant guide back to wholeness for energy that has lost its natural state and pure tone through mental or physical illness or limitation.

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A food with a glycemic index of 28 boosts blood sugar only 28 % as much as pure glucose; one with a glycemic index of 100 acts just like pure glucose.

If you add some pure Vitamin E to your recipes it will act as a natural preservative.

Animals seem to exude pure love and act as mirrors that reflect what's inside each of us.

He acts as if the leash is pure TORTURE and refuses to walk, it is SO dramatic.

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Those musical acts are pure catharsis for Davis, as well as for the Coens — and they also form the crux of the strongest set of moving images I was privileged enough to see this year.