Sentences with phrase «course of nature»

Process theology as an ecological theology is concerned about the whole course of nature.

You think I would have learned by now, but I keep fighting the natural course of nature.

«The subsequent course of nature, teaches, that God, indeed, gave motion to matter; but that, in the beginning, he so guided the various motion of the parts of it, as to contrive them into the world he design'd they should compose; and establish'd those rules of motion, and that order amongst things corporeal, which we call the laws of nature.

Information about the probable course of nature then must be derived from «two distinct elements in the universe» (PR 306).

What worked in 8th grade had to be abandoned... the Angry Tribal God had to be removed... the God that would stop the Normal Course of Nature (just for me) had to be released....

The rational theists wanted to marvel at the orderly course of nature without worshiping it or supposing it to be the activity of a cosmic Thou, open to the influence of sacrifice and prayer.

3) Matter could act directly on matter in «the common course of nature»; and because God was true to his promises, these actions were dependable and repeatable; and

And because science studies the ordinary course of nature, it is not necessary to worry about the rare occasions when God does intervene directly through miracles.

Often accompanied by classical music, van der Werve's videos are mesmerizing tableaux in which the artist touches upon issues of mortality, sublime beauty, and the impossible feat to defy the inexorable course of nature.

Thirdly, that we should reject the notion of idle wheels in the process of nature... Fourthly, that we have now the task of defining natural facts, so as to understand how mental occurrences are operative in conditioning the subsequent course of nature.

Third, man's agency is dependent on sufficient continuity in the order of nature so that he can make inductions on the probable course of nature and then act with some confidence that a consequence remote in time will occur.

For centuries, biblical writers had celebrated the myriad ways in which God altered the course of nature so as to restore his chosen ones from the various forms of death in which they found themselves: illness, barrenness, exile, and captivity, to name the most important.

Allowing this «does not contradict the course of nature,» he insists.

So's yer tongue:... «Jam 3:6 And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.»

These supernatural forces intervene in the course of nature and in all that men think and will and do.

For God is the distant God, whom the course of nature hides from his eyes; God is near only for faith, and faith originates only in miracle.

God has a hands - off policy as far as human will and the course of nature are concerned so that we can become people who will freely choose to love the deity.

Later when the Seer develops the implications of his sermon on Gog and Magog into the statement that the Hasidim must strive to intensify the conflict on earth so that it may hasten the coming of the Messiah, the Yehudi tells the Rabbi that he does not believe in miraculous happenings which contradict the course of nature, but regards the miraculous and the natural as two aspects of the same thing — as God's pointing finger, or revelation, and God's creative hand, or creation.

We know he does not change his mind on these primal decisions quixotically as we often do out of ignorance or insecurity, because the course of nature has remained fixed since its unfolding was set — at least as far as we can determine this.

Mythological thought regards the divine activity, whether in nature or in history, as an interference with the course of nature, history, or the life of the soul, a tearing of it asunder — a miracle, in fact.

(Joseph Butler, The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the constitution and Course of Nature.)

Your body has prepared for a natural birth, but when something goes wrong, doctors intervene and change the course of nature.

The show features work by Anna Barham, Kit Craig, Jeremiah Day and John Latham, and takes its title from a Hannah Arendt quote where she speculates on transformation and «a veritable metamorphosis in which it is as though the course of nature which wills that all fire burn to ashes is reverted and even dust can burst into flames...»

For too long a time human population growth has been conveniently and expediently viewed by most politicians, economists and demographers as somehow outside the course of nature.

As the result of rapid, unprecedented population and industrial growth over the past century, humans can collectively alter the course of nature.