Sentences with word «conceptuality»

In this book we shall be considering how the particular conceptuality of process theism can illuminate our understanding of biblical and Christian traditions.

The testing of the speculatively developed conceptuality in a well - established field is not an easy matter.

Whitehead's dipolar conceptuality provides for dependable continuity with the past in the efficiently caused physical pole and openness to novelty in the mental pole.

Again process theology may mean theology which systematically employs the philosophical conceptuality of Alfred North Whitehead or Charles Hartshorne.

Process theism can provide the contemporary conceptuality by which we can appropriate this ancient literature, while the biblical tradition can provide those concrete particularities whereby our lives are given final meaning.

The following pages represent one attempt to do this, and, as indicated earlier, they are written from the point of view of a supporter of process thought as the most adequate conceptuality available for us today.

What is unusual is that Whitehead develops an alternative conceptuality into a full - fledged cosmology and metaphysics.

But process thought can offer a viable conceptuality with which to explore these issues thoroughly.

Another option was to look for another Western conceptuality which, despite being removed from our native modes of thinking, would at least be more successful than the classical one that we had been educated in.

If process and trinitarian conceptualities do not in fact overlap, at least they share many of the attributes and part of the philosophical framework that underlies them.

Subsequently we shall inquire as to whether the dipolar conceptuality and imagery of God provides a psychologically feasible form of theism in the Jungian context.

This requires me to say here a few words about the particular conceptuality which seems to me demanded today.

Because, like the philosophers, they eschew metaphysics, they can not develop an alternative conceptuality that fits their evidence.

Whether process thought would serve as a more suitable conceptuality for Filipino Christians remains to be seen.

Theologians are recognizing the need for a wider conceptuality which frees theology from the ghetto of sacred history and places it within the whole sweep of human and natural history.

In our opening chapter, we insisted upon this truth as part of a general conceptuality which makes sense in our time.

Moreover, it may be that theistic conceptualities within which such images are encased also subliminally function to ward off innumerable growth - oriented challenges to our psychic being.

Before abandoning the wider quest for intelligibility and understanding, we propose that we should test the usefulness of other conceptualities.

In fact, I think that it is important to stress that Whitehead is more than a natural theologian, and offers a metaphysical conceptuality which is also able to tackle questions raised by contemporary science.

In my view we can best understand that created order if we take seriously the insights which are found in the general philosophical conceptuality known as «Process Thought.»

My own program as a Whiteheadian thinker is to interact with movements like these, seeking to display the potential unity, or at least community, among them, and trying to deepen the analysis through the use of Whitehead's rich conceptuality.

An adequate conceptuality of this God should be just a matter of some good, hard, clear thinking.

But in his own conceptuality, no place for such transcendence was possible, and he himself came to the conclusion that to know the good was to do it.

Whitehead's basic conceptuality is closer to that typical of East Asia than to that typical of Europe.

What the process conceptuality most clearly implies is that all that we have been remains forever alive in God.

«No one has any obligations to a concept; that is what is so agreeable about conceptuality - it promises protection from experience.

The doctrine that Jesus» humanity was impersonal has much support in orthodox circles, and it reflects the fact that, given the traditional conceptuality, there is no other way of conceiving God's presence in Jesus than by displacing some aspect of the human Jesus.

Whitehead s powerful conceptuality has been for me since then my language for expressing the world.

My perception is that this discussion has been plagued by dualistic habits of mind, and that it can be advanced by applying Whitehead's radically nondualistic conceptuality.

theological positions (say, Tillichian, Rahnerian, paleo - Thomistic — to confine the list to positions couched in ontological conceptualities).

We disagree that the breakdown of the Enlightenment conceptuality displays the limits of conceptual thought in general.

God's so - called primordial conceptual envisagement could never have occurred prior to all physical feelings since there can not be conceptuality except as it grows around an inherited multiplicity of previous, determinate specifications which establishes the potentiality of the moment's aim.

And as we have seen in Part One, the modem conceptuality known as process thought adds rational confirmation to just that picture.

Furthermore, process thought has probably become the main conceptuality that is enabling me to develop my views.