Sentences with word «creatio»

Not only can such a deity be blamed for not intervening, but also held responsible, by virtue of the doctrine of creatio ex nihilo, for natural defects as well as deficient wills.17

More argument on this issue is obviously needed, but we can provisionally conclude that an acceptable theology of nature must reject creatio ex nihilo.

If we understand creatio ex nihilo, the Incarnation, miracles, and the Last Judgment in orthodox ways, then these doctrines seem to require divine coercion..

But do not the classic and medieval formulations of God speak of him also as Creator, as Preserver (creatio continuata) and as Final Cause or End?

He expresses this by the old formula creatio ex nihilo.

Whatever theological orthodoxy may have to say about creatio ex nihilo (creation out of nothing), the Hebrew scriptures see it as bringing order out of chaos.

The theologian Jürgen Moltmann is the one to whom I'm indebted for using the phrase creatio ex amore, «creation out of love.»

40 I regard this as an avenue of thought well worth pursuing, and I consider it a far more biblical notion than the traditional creatio ex nihilo, which misinterprets Gen. 1:1 — 2.

Process theology is, I think, misguided in allowing a preference for creativity to lose the values in creatio ex nihilo.

I find creatio ex nihilio difficult too, which is one reason I do not belive in God.

This is indeed creatio ex amore, and it is not a one - time matter in the beginning of history.

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What Bultmann is really driving at may perhaps be demonstrated from a further consideration of the doctrine of creatio ex nihil.

The idea of creatio ex nihilo, or nontemporality, is regarded as noncontradictory by some, and absurd by others.

The main reason that nature lacks intrinsic value is necessarily linked to the orthodox idea of creatio ex nihilo, a view that essentially makes all created things completely contingent upon divine power.

It gives some support to those who posit a creatio ex nihilo of the world.

Schönborn says: «It is this power that we call the creatio continua, the ongoing creation.

Autonomy can only be the property of God who is capable of creatio ex nihilo.

Postconservatives hold to creatio ex nihilo and to God's omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence, but reject the notion of untouched transcendence.

If Hartshorne does want to maintain that God is the source of being then he is going to run into the traditional problem of creatio ex nihilo (which he explicitly rejects — as we have seen).

Hence, to say literally and meaningfully that God creates, we must exclude the notion of creatio ex nihilo.

However, creatio ex nihilo is totally beyond our conception of creating, says Hartshorne.

This is the hiatus which makes of the new creation a creatio ex nihilo — a hiatus so profound that the identity of the risen Christ with Jesus crucified is the great question of the New Testament.

This puzzle is directly related to the problem many theologians have with Hartshorne on account of his explicit denial of the doctrine of creatio ex nihilo or «creation out of nothing.»

Pure coercive power transforms creatio ex nihilo into creatio ex deo, with the world possessing no more independent actuality than an idea in the divine mind would have.

Polkinghorne then turns to orthodox Christian commitments such as a theistic understanding of God and creatio ex nihilo and defends them against competing positions.

But Polkinghorne is a theist who believes in an active God, so he combines creatio ex nihilo with creatio continua to emphasize God's continuing involvement in nature.

BAdger00, you said, «Personally, I don't find it more preposterous than creatio ex nihilo.»

Although this book is not part of the Protestant Bible, it does show that in a setting in which matter is held to be virtually eternal, the biblical understanding of God as Creator leads naturally to a creatio ex nihilo position since the alternative compromises the sovereignty of God over nature).