Sentences with phrase «conceived of»

The theological postures of Kaplan and Whitehead have the virtue of undercutting the problem of evil, for the problem only arises in acute form if God is conceived of as omnipotent — a view which both Whitehead and Kaplan repudiate.

In anticipation: the non-God of the East often achieves personalistic forms and is so worshipped; and the God of the West has been more than once conceived of as impersonal reality.21

On the basis of these beliefs Buber has defined evil as the predominance of the world of It to the exclusion of relation, and he has conceived of the redemption of evil as taking place in the primal movement of the turning which brings man back to God and back to solidarity of relation with man and the world.

In addition to the inward covenant there was also the outward or national covenant to which all New Englanders were conceived of as belonging or at least to which they were subject.

It should be borne in mind that because religion conceived of as a vital force transcends its expression, it can not be unreservedly regarded as one among many spheres of cultural activity.

These were conceived of as ordained of God even when they led to divisions and wars.

Believing that recollection is the pagan life - view, a lifeview affirming that all that is has been, Kierkegaard conceived of recollection as a backward repetition.

In Penn's vision, Almighty God conceived of this universe we inhabit and brought it into being so that somewhere in it there would be at least one creature with whom He could establish friendship.

Play is conceived of as time off from work, and thus time vulnerable to misuse.

God is conceived of as having prehended all the past occasions in the universe at the time the piano is sliding over the railing.

Candler's «Christian thing» helps us understand how and why the speech program there was conceived of as it was.

It is not a commodity to be bought or an entitlement to be claimed, and its meaning and value were understood long before the idea of rights was ever conceived of, and the escalatory contest over them ever begun.

No one 6,000 years ago could have conceived of the persective of the universe we have today, so God allowed them to have their belief system to keep them faithful.

God is conceived of as omnipotent in the sense that he knows everything that can be known.

Part of the confusion of Cobb's position stems from the fact that the extensive continuum, conceived of as a set of relations underlying past, present, and future, is part actual and part potential — actual in as far as it is constituted by actual entities enjoying actual relationships legislating what are real potentialities governing the relationships of future occasions; and merely potential in so far as these relationships are viewed as factors determining what forms of definiteness are, and are not, possible as factors in future fact.

It boils down to fago means «eat» mostly the same way that we mean when we say «eat», usually it is literally, but it can be conceived of as figuratively: when it speaks of Israel eating manna, we understand it to mean literally, but we can conceive of it meaning something figurative.

moreover, the moment in which event and community met — the one culminating, the other emerging — was conceived of as the resurrection of this same person from the dead.

Theoretically, man may be conceived of being the only creature capable of «exhausting» the immense range and wealth of al - jamal, but in as much these graces process into the heart in an ever changing and ever transforming energy, even the perfect hearts may not hold the entirety of these graces.

The Aristotelian strain in Arab philosophy conceived of the reality as being essentially synthetic and preserved the possibility of rational perception of such a reality occurring in layers or degrees of causes and their effects with in the delimited universe.

The former conceived of the «priority» of the pre-existing Christ as logos descending.

And when you see what you have created (conceived of) I hope you get to rule over all of it.

Just when the theological debate surrounding the release of the big - screen adaptation of the novel The Shack had died down, Twitter user Erik Reed has just conceived of a film that is putting the heresy police back on their toes.

One image he used was that of Elijah, conceived of by Israel as the father of the prophetic movement, and whose life in the biblical accounts was surrounded by enormous miraculous power.

(1) Unlike classical theism, black theology has never conceived of divine perfection in such a way as to entail that God is wholly immutable.

What is important is not how this mysterious Galilean might have thought of himself or how the early church conceived of him but how his openness to the divine can be replicated in our own experience.

ST has never been tested, nor has anyone even conceived of an experiment to test it.

I have concluded that Whitehead may have conceived of his theory of perception before his completed system, and so he may have intended his theory of perception to be independent of his system, but in fact it is net logically independent of his system.

The fact is no one has conceived of a logical explanation yet.

The tradition had often conceived of God as omniscient while at the same time internally distant from what is known.

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 blessings could be conceived of in a hundred different ways, (N. Perrin, Kingdom, pp. 166ff.)

Nebuchadnezzar's sins, conceived of as debts, have risen to such a level that his creditor, God, is about to demand repayment in the form of punishment: He is calling in the bond he holds over this unfortunate debtor.

But since he never conceived of God as an actual entity, he confronted the challenge of conceiving creativity as wholly, unambiguously good.

His ministry may have had ecstatic overtones, but one thing is clear, he conceived of the Kingdom fundamentally as the reconstituting of all relationships: God with man, man with his fellowmen, man with the world.

Atonement conceived of in this way has no place in Christian Myth or Christian anything else.

If we conceived of God and the world as two entities that could be added together to make a whole larger than either one, then it would follow that God's love for the world implied passibility in God.

Paul Tillich's theology of culture, Rudolf Bultmann's demythologization, today's death - of - God theology are all adaptations of Christianity to what is conceived of as the nature of man and modern society.

For Jesus conceived of his transcendent selfhood as constituted by God's intervention in history.

It is by such texts that the Qur» an makes clear that Allah can be described, His qualities can be partially known, but His essence can not be conceived of by man.

The story calls to mind a quote from Spencer Burke, who has said, «Most Christians have conceived of a God who is less forgiving and less compassionate than they are.»

Congregationalists conceived of their task as bringing the gospel and education to the masses; so they insisted on sending only fully educated pastors who represented not only the gospel but also the best in Christian civilization.

Special thanks to Dan who both conceived of and executed the Year of Biblical Womanhood Genre Cheat Sheet.

I don't think people conceived of Jesus quite that way back when I was a believer.

This holds as long as Whitehead conceived of prehension as primarily (unconscious) perception, but became problematic once he started to conceive of prehension in causal terms.

But without the wheel we would never have thought of linking wheels in pairs, and without our predecessors» invitation to use their shoulders we would not have thought a further seeing possible, perhaps not even conceived of it.

This global compilation of traditional wisdom shows that none of the great, classical religious traditions conceived of God as a mere intelligent Designer, or as a First Cause within nature, or as a highly moral Personality who happens to be divine as well, or any kind of all - powerful agent that has a primus inter pares relationship with other, less powerful Superbeings and Incredibles.

Scientists who don't debate or question settled science might miss opportunities for a new breakthrough that hadn't been observed or conceived of by a human mind.

Brings God down to the level of the caveman who conceived of him in such a way.

Based on myths, and / or books that mortal men conceived of and authored!

(Interestingly, Satoshi Nakamoto probably conceived of a maximum block size to keep the blockchain from splitting.)