Sentences with phrase «creative power which»

The spirit is not a static ideal but a creative power which participates in the life it informs.

(1) The community would not have possessed the creative power which form criticism attributes to it in ascribing so much of the gospel material to the early Church.

To think of God as acting in dynamic relation to His creatures not merely as one actor among many, but as the universal creative power which sustains all things, and without which they could neither be nor act, is true to what our best knowledge of the world tells us.

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The creative proponents of this plan also?conveniently overlook Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, which vests the power «to coin money» with Congress.

Which is to say that the path which the individual life must take is one of growth from nothingness to being, by attempting first to understand that one's life situation is ambiguous; second, by opening oneself up to the creative God - power within oneself and waiting for its revelation, however gradually it may come; and third, by acting upon its discoWhich is to say that the path which the individual life must take is one of growth from nothingness to being, by attempting first to understand that one's life situation is ambiguous; second, by opening oneself up to the creative God - power within oneself and waiting for its revelation, however gradually it may come; and third, by acting upon its discowhich the individual life must take is one of growth from nothingness to being, by attempting first to understand that one's life situation is ambiguous; second, by opening oneself up to the creative God - power within oneself and waiting for its revelation, however gradually it may come; and third, by acting upon its discovery.

But only if one does not give up after failure can he open himself to this insight, within which is found a creative power working through life, bringing it out of nothingness toward Being.

You may start out with well reasoned and good - intentioned theology, but once in a position of power, the system goes to closure and the creative power goes to inertia, which brings corruption and corrosion to the system.

The perichoretic movement of God, in the power of the Spirit, enables a new way of living, calling forth «a broad place where there is no cramping,» a holistic expression of eschatological life in which the freedoms of God are expressed in passionate and creative freedom.

These are only a few examples illustrating the many texts which give rational evidence of the creative power of Allah.

In the midst of the awful realm of powers, and of the sacred realm of laws, the aesthetic creative impulse is building unawares a third joyous realm of play and of appearance, in which it releases mankind from all the shackles of circumstance and frees him from everything that may be called constraint, whether physical or moral.

As a result of the brief, violent moment of crisis in which it became conscious at once of its creative power and of its critical faculties, humanity has quite legitimately become hard to move: no stimulus at the level of mere instinct or blind economic necessity will suffice for long to goad it into moving onwards.

It is the assumption throughout this book that no analysis of a religious phenomenon can be complete which omits the creative power of God.

«At the bottom of this is the humility of the Crucified, which will always be contrasted by the great powers of the world, but which generates a real hope that is manifested in the creative vitality of the Church: in her communities and her movements, in the new responsibility of the laity, in ecumenical relations, in liturgical and spiritual experiences.

Concludes Wright: «It is as though... «the word of the YHWH» is like an enormous reservoir, full of creative divine wisdom and power, into which the prophets and other writers tap by God's call and grace, so that the word may flow through them to do God's work of flooding or irrigating his people.»

Omnipotence is rather «the power of being which resists nonbeing in all its expressions and which is manifest in the creative process in all its forms.»

God in his working, and in his ways of working, is persuasive not coercive power; he is that creative, dynamic, energizing love which was seen by men in the person of Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ's own working and ways of working.

On this suggestion, «emancipation» means the opportunity to be creative, the measure of power that «issues from coordination,» and individuals are more or less emancipated depending on the natural and human context in which their lives are set.

The crucial religious experiences of man do not take place in a sphere in which creative energy operates without contradiction, but in a sphere in which evil and good, despair and hope, the power of destruction and the power of rebirth, dwell side by side.

The leadership model which maximizes the growth - stimulating effects of groups is described by Thomas Gordon in Group - Centered Leadership, A Way of Releasing the Creative Power of Groups.

They do have their own active and creative manner of collectively representing their historicity, which I am arguing, is closely intertwined with their experience with what they take to be the Divine Power, Ellaiyamman as the goddess of the Paraiyars is a pivotal symbol of the source (and the hope of protection) of this distinct physical and conceptual space: she conserves their geographic space by guarding their particularity as a community and she represents their conceptual space as self - reflective human beings.

The divine command and creative Word were personified and given power to create and sustain that which they create.

There are parallels here with the role of evolution, which also appears to take creative power out of God's hands and yet is a part of God's creation.

Creative and redemptive power has been released in it which was not wholly released before.

Personality, the most valuable thing in the universe, revealing the real nature of the Creative Power and the ultimate meaning of creation, the only eternal element in a world of change, the one thing worth investing in, and in terms of service to which all else must be judged — that is the essential Christian creed [As I See Religion (Harper & Brothers, 1932), P. 44].

My big mistake, which a more mathematical person would have avoided, has been that my arrangement of a full table of the options in Creative Synthesis, the only book of mine that has it at all, is mathematically inelegant, which considerably reduces its power.

The commitment within relational power is not to each other but to the relationship which is creative of both.

God's role as cosmic ordering power, according to Hartshorne, is to define the limits within which localized creative activity occurs.

The transforming power of this second way operates in the form of deep communion which I call creative interchange between individuals and peoples.

God's love is that creative and redemptive power which works unceasingly in all times and places to bring to fulfillment a universal community of free and loving beings.

He argues that God»... is not «omnipotent» in the Thomistic sense, as the power effectively to choose that any possible world, no matter which, shall be actual «7 The reason that God does not have this power is that each actual occasion is a creative entity which, within limits, determines itself.

It is the creative work of God which achieves in personality a unique organization of impersonal structures which becomes a new center of power and direction reacting upon the impersonal order.

It should be underscored that the new life which flows from the experience of the redeeming mercy of God is a life of free creative effort in which all human powers are released from the shackles of a false piety and a crabbed moralism.

But the uniquely creative element in Christian experience is just the overflow of new life and power which come from the depths of that experience in which our human despair is met by the suffering love of God in all its majesty, humility, and holiness.

But the tides and powers which shape our destiny and to which we add our mite of freedom and creative decision have been running for all the ages.

The manifestations of that Creative Being — life, knowing, power, will — are evident in the creation of this universe, which is intelligently based on established principles with everything put in its proper place and every deed performed at its proper time.

For Man, by the act of «noospherically» concentrating himself upon himself, not only becomes reflectively aware of the ontological current on which he is borne, but also gains control of certain of the springs of energy which dictate this advance: above all, collective springs, in so far as he consciously realizes the value, biological efficiency and creative nature of social organization; but also individual springs m as much as, through the collective work of science, he feels himself to be on the verge of acquiring the power of physicochemical control of the operations of heredity and morphogenesis in the depths of his own being.

What one can infer from Jesus» resurrection is that the fountain of life and being is not necessarily frustrated by death, and therefore that we may take courage and hope regarding the deaths of others and of ourselves that we may in like manner be the occasion for some of the creative - death - defeating power which was so magnificently poured out in the case of Jesus.

Now to the three arguments against the form - critical view of the gospels, of which the first was that it ascribes too great a creative power to the community.

We do not deny or circumscribe the Creator, because we hold he has created the self - acting originating human mind, which has almost a creative gift; much less then do we deny or circumscribe His power, if we hold that He gave matter such laws as by their blind instrumentality moulded and constructed through innumerable ages the world as we see it... Mr Darwin's theory need not then be atheistical, be it true or not; it may simply be suggesting a larger idea of Divine Prescience and Skill... At first sight I do not see that «the accidental evolution or organic beings» is inconsistent with divine design - It is accidental to us, not to God.»

They are unparalleled in their power to unleash the creative energies which can raise living standards above subsistence.

But in view of the power and tenacity of the scientistic ideology, which abhors the very idea of myth, it is not surprising that Whitehead has received so little attention from philosophers of science, despite his being one of the most original and creative thinkers of this century.

At first this seems a poor substitute for the economic and domestic freedom of womanhood but in fact it was not so much a substitute as a creative idea, which, once set at work, could not be stayed in its leavening power.

Thus, not once but twice in the opening lines of Israel's long, intimate story she declares her faith that her story, which is to follow, is inseparably related to the world's story; that the world and her own role in it have meaning only in the proposition that the earth and all who dwell in it are Yahweh's; and that the stuff of chaos rendered unchaotic by the creative power of Yahweh alone nevertheless resides in all, restrained only by the living God and his living Word.

Acknowledgment of this right means making way for the free creative power of God which can cause new life to proceed from this marriage according to His will.

The criterion for determining the relationship to the powers is the extent to which God's creative, liberating and serving power is evidenced in their actions, and the extent to which equality is established.

No point of overthinking this CSKA have to try and score 4 goals to beat us they will be trying to pile on the attack from the first mnt which means they will be wide open at the back which we can take advantage with our fire power and creative midfield,

The hugely popular events require teams to not only have to build a gravity - powered vehicle which can get down the hill as quickly as possible, but also have to show creative design and have a sense of theatre.

Making things on their own when children are young develops powers of invention and creative thinking, which, if continued, will increase as they mature.

The AG does not have subpoena power in public corruption cases, which has caused Schneiderman to get creative, teaming up with his fellow statewide Democrat, Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, whose office does have that power, to prosecute the misuse of public funds.

He revived a rationalist conception of human nature in which the mind is richly endowed with creative powers at a time when behaviorism ruled and «innate» was a dirty word.