Sentences with phrase «divine afterthought»

Nevertheless, it seems to allow more scope for such than a conception which excludes world, finitude, temporality, and negativity from the inner life of God from the very outset and thus somehow renders his relationship to creation a secondary matter, an adventitious maneuver of divine afterthought.

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But this new goal, coming «to share in the divine nature», is not tacked on to the end of our earthly existence as an afterthought; rather, this new goal changes the whole trajectory of our earthly lives.

Revelation is then not an afterthought in the divine plan, but a continuity with the initial poising of energies at the moment of creation.