Sentences with phrase «eternally unchanging»

This program may well begin with reference to the perplexing problem as to how the eternally unchanging primordial nature of God can provide different initial aims to every occasion.11 That each occasion has its unique, appropriate aim given to it, Whitehead is clear.

In temporal occasions the initial aim is always an aim at some intensity of feeling both in the occasion itself and in its relevant future.13... The relations of an individual's own future and those of others introduce tensions that are highly relevant to man's ethical thinking.14 In God, however, there are no such tensions because the ideal strength of beauty for himself and for the world coincide.15 Hence, we may simplify and say that God's aim is at ideal strength of beauty and that this aim is eternally unchanging.

Hence, we may simplify and say that God's aim is at ideal strength of beauty and that this aim is eternally unchanging.

God's constant, attentive, holy love is eternally unchanging.

Griffin & Sherburne, New York: The Free Press, 1978, 343) John Cobb says that Whitehead»... tells us that God's ordering of the eternal objects is primordial, and that in a sense which clearly means eternally unchanging.

The problem is that while at times Whitehead conceives of God's ordering of the eternal objects to be eternally unchanging, at other times «the ordering is such as to specify the initial aim for each new occasion... (it) is extremely difficult to see how one unchanging order can provide a specific and novel aim to every new occasion.

First, he tells us that God's ordering of the eternal objects is primordial, and that in a sense which clearly means eternally unchanging.

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We do not contribute to a God who has all value eternally in God's unchanging person.»