Sentences with phrase «divine imposition»
Browning bases his study on Hartshorne's process theism, and it is appropriate to interpret his theory of the divine imposition of the laws of nature in terms of coercion.
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Such an examination is all the more necessary because it has been charged that Hartshorne's doctrine of divine providence amounts to little more than divine imposition of the laws of nature on the universe (Lewis S. Ford in TPP 75 - 80).
The suggested pattern is no longer so much of divine imposition as one in which Gabriel and God and all the heavens stand in breathless suspense.
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No Imposition of Religion In the contemporary debates on homosexuality, many are tempted to start with an appeal to divine Revelation, whether understood from a Catholic, Anglican or Protestant perspective.
The imposition of Word upon king is sharply attested again in that brilliant scene immediately preceding the death of Ahab in the middle of the ninth century (I Kings 22) The Word through Micaiah works its radical historical effects, and another prophet is instrumental in the efficacious juxtaposition of divine life and will upon human events.
Ford's view shares the difficulty I find in Cobb's view, namely that God's input, even if vague enough to be altered or made more determinate by the creature, is an external imposition magnified to divine proportions.
Hence, between the logical structures of mind and the structures of matter there exists a harmony, proceeding not from any imposition of divine authority, but from the working out of the evolutionary process itself.