God must be
conceived in terms of some activity of the future.
Not exact matches
there could be no particular form or content necessarily implied by a proclamation such as «the Kingdom
of God is at hand»; each hearer would supply his own, and would be up to the proclaimer to make clear
in what
terms he
conceived of the eschatological
activity of God as king, we shall see, is what Jesus did.
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.
Process theism involves the persistent effort to
conceive God's
activity primarily
in terms of persuasion.
Though this
activity remained obscure for Merleau - Ponty he at least found it valuable that Whitehead had not
conceived it
in terms of an idealistic passage from Nature to Spirit (N 155).