Sentences with phrase «creation out of the chaos»

In this moment the form is broken and life is summoned to new creation out of the chaos.

Georges Gusdorf, a leading French existential phenomenologist, has said that whoever finds and speaks the right word is involved in creation out of chaos, and whoever keeps his word creates value in the world.

Not exact matches

Reaching back to the original biblical understanding of creation involving the increasing emergence of order out of chaos, Keller writes:

In an especially astute bit of exegesis, Hays points out that the story of Jesus walking on the water (6:45 — 52) does not recall Moses and the Exodus sea - crossing but rather the peerless God of Job 9:4 — 11, the Lord of creation who triumphs over chaos.

The point of Israel's creation understanding was not that God had brought something out of nothing, but that in the face of chaos, with its power to destroy and render meaningless, God the Creator had brought order.

Since all that would bring order out of chaos originates in God's creation, peace as shalom can never be regarded as solely a human product.

Whether this was creation out of nothing, or order out of chaos, God was explanatory of the existence of the world we know, and that world was understood to be fully real.

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.

Rolt correctly recognized that creation, both initially and ongoingly, is a process of order being wrestled out of chaos.

The second principle of the chaos theory is that while God originally created a beautiful and orderly universe that functioned in beautiful symmetry, once free agents used their freedom to rebel against God, many elements of God's creation spun out of control, that is, they no longer work in coordination with all the other parts of God's creation.

So, analogously, Israel understands and articulates her faith in the world's and man's creation: all that now exists is brought into being by Yahweh and his «Word out of chaos and continues in non-chaotic existence only in and by the creating - sustaining Yahweh.

The story had its dim beginnings and it betrays its distant involvement in an ancient myth of creation out of the Near and Middle East which survived in various forms but best and most fully in the Babylonian Enuma Elish (a title derived from its opening words, «When on high»).4 Here chaos is represented in the goddess Tiamat, a name perhaps echoed in the Hebrew word for «deep» tehom (1:2).

Creation is not envisaged as creation out of nothing, but rather as the radical transformation of prior chaos byCreation is not envisaged as creation out of nothing, but rather as the radical transformation of prior chaos bycreation out of nothing, but rather as the radical transformation of prior chaos by Yahweh.

I affirm Genesis» proposal that creation is a matter of generating order out of chaos, rather than the church's post-biblical proclamation of creatio ex nihilo.

Just as a car is not evil when it kills someone after spinning out of control of the driver, so also, creation is in chaos because the human drivers have lost control.