Sentences with phrase «divine order of the universe»

Linnaeus himself freely mixed biology and theology: He believed his classification scheme was a window into the divine order of the universe.

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The author (s) of this story lacked perspective on their calendar, or maybe they wanted to debunk astronomical principles of order in favor of making the statement that God made all that is in the universe in one «work» week a nice juxtaposition between divine and human potential to get things done.

God literally became a man in order that the human categories of spirituality could be recognized as truly divine, and not the mere invention of a frightened race seeking some means of converting a miserable and ephemeral existence into a dignified and permanent purchase upon the existence of the universe.»

Stoicism offers an obvious example: a vision of the universe as a fated, eternally repeated divine and cosmic history, a world in which finite forms must constantly perish simply in order to make room for others, and which in its entirety is always consumed in a final ecpyrosis (which makes a sacrificial pyre, so to speak, of the whole universe).

If God in «his» heaven is a father ruling «his» people, then it is in the «nature» of things and according to divine plan and the order of the universe that society be male - dominated.4

Therefore, in attempting to relate the notion of divine causation to such a universe we have to understand God not only as the ground of whatever order happens to have emerged, but also as the creative pull that energizes the world's ever becoming «more».

In the mode of being felt the divine presence in the universe is a lure or power of persuasion continually offering new possibilities of intensity and harmony to patterns of events in cosmic becoming.16 «God» is a word we may use to refer to the radical source of novelty and order in the emergent universe.17 Without such a source of novelty and order we may well ask whether there would be any emergence at all.