Sentences with phrase «circumscribing god»

(21) Theologically, this means circumscribing God within a private sphere, viewing the church as a closed community, and putting a quest for certitude in place of authentic faith.

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For if God is conceived as caring for persons as persons, and so in the end as caring for personality everywhere, no boundaries of state or race can be thought of as circumscribing his relationship with souls.

Those implications, however, are circumscribed by the guiding insight of God's infinity.

Just as God's omnipotence is circumscribed by the possible, he argued, so God's omniscience must be limited to the knowable.

They witness to the fact that God is not circumscribed by the walls of religious sanctuaries and that God is concerned with the processes and activities of daily life.

God is Power because in His own Self He contains all power beforehand and exceeds it, and because He is the Cause of all power and produces all things by a power which may not be thwarted nor circumscribed, and because He is the Cause wherefrom Power exists whether in the whole system of the world or in any particular part.

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.»

Admittedly the final decisive act is the creature's, but if God has circumscribed the possibilities down to the next to last decision, the creatures can do hardly more than ratify God's set up.

But the third commandment prohibits the use of «God» for entrapping, circumscribing or trying to control what the Divine One will be and do.

«Non-being» simply IS NOT - by definition, unless we are to posit some infinite and eternal sea of existential emptiness which surrounds and circumscribes the equally infinite Being of God.

Jonah is the prophet, a member of the household of God, who knows God's mercy but wishes to circumscribe it to include only those whom he likes.

If this is so, then the question arises as to what meaning is to be attached to the term «God» and how this meaning is to be circumscribed by faith.