Sentences with phrase «as unchanging»

All responses by law societies to the problem are based upon preserving these factors as unchanging:

Energy flows all the time in stable conditions we view (on average) as unchanging.

With just 70 stages, and some of these just lasting a few seconds, there's not a huge amount of game here but that's probably for the best as the unchanging aesthetic does get a bit tired and the game doesn't ever throw any significantly new gameplay elements at you.

Many scientists gave Shell the benefit of the doubt about the merits of their case, content to dismiss the bottom of the deep seas as an unchanging and largely lifeless part of the planet.

In other words, rather than presenting science as an unchanging edifice (which is the way it is often perceived in the public mind), the exhibitions will show that science is a changing, man - made, approach to the world that is characteristic of modern society.

Believe me or not faithfull gunners, as long as this unchanging wenger remain in charge, arsenal will continue to fear and not be feared even by bottom table teams from division 2.

It sees the truth of any sort of object (say an apple) not as that object itself, in its strange and lovely transience, passing through its various moments of existence (seed, tree, ripened fruit hanging on the bough, fruit eaten or moldering away) but as the unchanging form on which it is modeled (the apple that never shines forth in the beauty of its own color, that has no flavor or fragrance, that has never lived).

Hence they are not quite satisfactory as fulfilling the metaphysical idea of substances as the unchanging reality underlying the changing attributes.

Whitehead's rejection ofthat position was emphatic: «It is fundamental to the metaphysical doctrine of the philosophy of organism that the notion of an actual entity as the unchanging subject of change is completely abandoned» (PR 29 / 44).

The Qur» an is viewed by most Muslims as the unchanging word of God as transmitted to the Prophet Muhammad in the 7th century.

God is understood as unchanging in his primordial nature which envisions the eternal objects and as changing in his creative response to the events of the world.

John B. Cobb, Jr., and David Ray Griffin have expanded the list of metaphors which are unacceptable in a Whiteheadian conception of God to include five: God as cosmic moralist, God as the unchanging and passionless absolute, God as controlling power, God as sanctioner of the status quo, God as male (PT 8 - 10).

It is the idea of God as an unchanging absolute for whom no act of men could possibly make any difference that is inconsistent with religious relevance and availability.

God as the Unchanging and Passionless Absolute.

Legalists regard laws as unchanging, unchallengeable rules of conduct, as final, authoritative standards for human life.

Such a feminist hermeneutics of liberation reconceptualizes the understanding of Scripture as nourishing bread rather than as unchanging sacred word engraved in stone.

It is fundamental to the metaphysical doctrine of the philosophy of organism, that the notion of an actual entity as the unchanging subject of change is completely abandoned No thinker thinks twice; and, to put the matter more generally, no subject experiences twice.

A second negative step is to give up the notion of truth as unchanging and immutable.

That's why innovation in Laozian terms doesn't come from seeing a given situation — a landscape, a relationship, an industry — as unchanging, and then coming up with a fresh tactic within that stable situation to neutralize an opponent.

Not exact matches

But it assumes that the disrupter has to take into account things like the actual terrain on which he is fighting and that he must treat his adversary as stable and unchanging.

If you make more than $ 135,000 as a singular or $ 199,000 as a couple, you'll have to hang to a unchanging IRA.

Describing its author's life up until his conversion to Christianity, the Confessions grounds Augustine's individual, mutable life in the unchanging nature of God: «I entered into the depths of my soul,... and with the eye of my soul, such as it was, I saw the Light that never changes casting its rays over the same eye of my soul, over my mind.»

This way of establishing Brahman's independence of causal relations countenances the conception of Brahman as absolute self - existence and unchanging endurance, and leads to misconceptions.

Nobo, to be sure, distinguishes the extensive continuum which in itself is eternal and unchanging, from the spatio - temporal continuum which is the extensive continuum as progressively modified by actual occasions occurring in our cosmic epoch (52f).

The central allegation of paradox seems to me to run roughly as follows: a nontemporal divine experience would include in itself all events in time (cf. CSPM 105); but to experience all temporal events simultaneously would dissolve any real distinction between past and future (cf. CSPM 66); so there could be no temporal transition, no change, no contingency, and no freedom (cf. CSPM 137); and since nothing could become, there could be no real permanent and unchanging reality either, «for then the contrast between the terms, and therewith their meaning, must vanish» (CSPM 166).

Letting go of the concept of God as immutable was helpful to me, even as I trust that God is unchanging in love and faithfulness to us.

Here is a consistency to which I bear witness: Jesus as the exact representation of God, Jesus as the same, yesterday, today and forever and so I am always changing in response to the unchanging Christ, always evolving, always curling into cocoons and being reborn over and over again to a new and distilled beauty, smelling of the wind.

We can then ask whether the substance has some unchanging or essential qualities, properties, or attributes as well as the primary ones.

Kasper thinks that the Catholic theological tradition doesn't talk about mercy enough and that the classical concept of God, which sees God as perfect and unchanging, is «pastorally... a catastrophe.»

Justin Martyr lifted up the Logos of God as the means, or bridge, by which an absolute and unchanging deity can have relations with the created order.

Instead of making use of reason, they accepted the four schools of law as complete and unchanging and turned to mysticism and belief in the supernatural powers of saints, dead and alive.

To cite just one example, it is difficult to see how this synthesis, relying as it does upon a basically Aristotelian concept of nature or form as a static unchanging reality, can accommodate the discoveries of modern science.

This is, of course, a fallacy: Sometimes we speak as if our faith — and the faith — is unchanging.

Members of this group differ in their judgments as to which features of the changing situation are most to be considered in the reformulation of the unchanging message.

For is not to speak of God's eternity as the Fullness of Time tantamount to saying that God is the fullness of contingency and of change, and to denying that God is the Immutable, the Unchanging?

Unlike much of the inherited tradition where God was conceived as either the retired, uninvolved clockmaker, or as so perfect, eternal, unchanging that the world had no impact on Godself, the process God has a receptive side.

Our nostalgia for God has created our Angst, just as our demand for an unchanging absolute has hurled us into meaninglessness.

Naturally, the responses of Thomism remain nearly static when as «preambles of faith» they are applied to an unchanging (or even slowly, organically developing) sacred doctrine.

We can speak of the constant or unchanging aspects of the world, identifying being as the one such aspect that necessarily characterizes whatever is.

The Church herself and her authority to teach provide crucial warrants for seeing a developing doctrine as the deepening of a continuous, unchanging revealed truth.

Ogden's own view is to look upon God as Process, as a social reality that interacts with human persons in a relational way, and who is temporal and historical because he grows, matures, evolves and becomes, while at the same time being God because he is likewise infinite, eternal, unchanging and immutable.

At the conclusion Bohm summarized his position as follows (not a direct quotation): The problem is that many people think of essence as something which is unchanging.

(2) Previously, he notes that culture was understood in a classical sense: classical values were viewed as static and unchanging.

From the standpoint of Whitehead's final theory, as interpreted in terms of Hartshorne's distinction between God's abstract nature and concrete totality, it is quite natural to interpret the last sentence as Griffin does: «The passage does not say that God as a whole must be unchanging; it only says that God's nature must remain self - consistent» (PS 15:200).

(1) Substance is conceived as intrinsically unchanged, or unchanging, even amid its acquiring or losing accidental qualities.

There is a sense in which the objectivity of the scriptural text in its unchanging wording can be appealed to as a corrective against the most highly fanciful flights of redefinition, but it would be part of the naivete against which the Apostle warns us if we were to take that objectivity as a guarantee.

You will immediately protest that I am canonizing every syllable of the New Testament as if it were part of the unchanging wisdom of God, and that I am varnishing its errors and its obsolete thought with the splendor of abiding truth.

As one would expect, Hartshorne lays special stress on God's life as one of continual change and becoming instead of an unchanging life of eternal and static beinAs one would expect, Hartshorne lays special stress on God's life as one of continual change and becoming instead of an unchanging life of eternal and static beinas one of continual change and becoming instead of an unchanging life of eternal and static being.

Thus the Old Testament is not to be read as an odd collection of curious stories and ideas from a remote and primitive world, any more than it should be taken, on all its levels indiscriminately, as a definitive statement of unchanging truth.

Unlike the Christian god that wouldn't ever change his mind or doctrine... except for cursing the world for eating an apple... except for telling Abraham to sacrifice his son, but then stopping him... and except for killing nearly all life on Earth and then because of the guilt says I'll never to do that ever again - in exactly that way... and except for deciding that 2 of himself (Father and Spirit) weren't enough any more, and creating / fathering / spiriting as Son... and except for forgiving all sin, when «In the beginning» he had cursed the universe for the eating of an apple, by having his creation torture and kill his only begotten Son... and except for having to repeat himself about the unchanging eternal rules, to Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Saul / Paul, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, Bahá «u «lláh, David Koresh, and a whole host of others... and except for... and except for...