Sentences with phrase «everlasting nature»

The everlasting nature of God, which in a sense is non-temporal and in another sense is temporal, may establish with the soul a peculiarly intense relationship of mutual immanence.

As before, the question of such survival is left open, but a new note is struck by the reference to the everlasting nature of God, which is his consequent nature as the weaving of his temporal physical feelings of actualities upon his nontemporal conceptualizations of all pure possibilities (PR 524).

The everlasting nature of God, which in a sense is nontemporal and in another sense is temporal, may establish with the soul a peculiarly intense relationship of mutual immanence.

But Ogden is equally adamant in asserting that the Christ - event is to be understood as a decisive disclosure of God's everlasting nature as a just and loving God.

There is a reference to «the everlasting nature of God» that «may establish with the soul a peculiarly intense relationship of mutual immanence» (Al 267) Then there is the chapter on «Peace,» concluding the book and speaking sometimes explicitly, more often implicitly, of God and of man's apprehension of him.

Not exact matches

There is a deep cleavage between those who agree with Whitehead in describing God as a single actual entity, nontemporal in his primordial nature and everlasting in his consequent nature (the «entitative» view), and those who prefer with Charles Hartshorne to regard God as a personally ordered temporal society of successive occasions (the «societal» view).

More specifically, his primordial nature is eternal and his consequent nature everlasting.

It was formed at a time of stress (great wars of religious & political nature) in which the promise of everlasting life given to the humans from an alien (he is an off this world god).

Ford takes the systematic notion that an actual entity can only be prehended when it has achieved satisfaction, combined with the notion that as satisfied an actual entity is in the past, as rendering unacceptable the intuition that the Consequent Nature as everlasting concrescence can be prehended.

Hence, God in his consequent nature is called everlasting.

The consequent nature of God is the gathering up of all the values as they arise and their conservation in an everlasting consciousness that grows from more to more as each epoch rises and perishes and delivers up the value which it has achieved to this cosmic consciousness.

, the divine consequent nature is everlasting or infinitely temporal, entailing that God has been interacting with the domain of finite actualities for an infinitely past time, and that God will continue to interact with finite actualities infinitely in the future.

«The «primordial nature» of God is the concrescence of a unity of conceptual feelings» (PR 134), which «achieves, in its unity of satisfaction, the complete conceptual valuation of all eternal objects» (PR 48) or pure forms, thereby generating the entire structuring of pure possibility.4 Seen in terms of his everlasting aspect or consequent nature, however, the only way God is directly related to the World, the converse is true.

This could happen only if the guilty person were by nature endowed with extraordinary stupidity, and presumably by shouting in antistrophic and antiphonal song every time someone persuaded him that now was the beginning of a new era and a new epoch, had howled his head so empty of its original quantum satis of common sense as to have attained a state of ineffable bliss in what might be called the howling madness of the higher lunacy, recognizable by such symptoms as convulsive shouting; a constant reiteration of the words «era,» «epoch,» «era and epoch,» «epoch and era,» «the System»; an irrational exaltation of the spirits as if each day were not merely a quadrennial leap - year day, but one of those extraordinary days that come only once in a thousand years; the concept all the while like an acrobatic clown in the current circus season, every moment performing these everlasting dog - tricks of flopping over and over, until it flops over the man himself.

This puts Hartshorne where he wants to be, because to intuit (prehend) actual occasions as they occur is to intuit (prehend) them formaliter, as they exist in the immediate subjectivity of concrescence, and since God is everlasting, and experiences all actual occasions formaliter, actual occasions are preserved everlastingly (in their full, warm, subjective immediacy) in the consequent nature of God.6 This interpretation resolves the question of the status of the past, the problem of how the past is given as datum for concrescing actual occasions, and the question of a ground for truth claims about the past.

If we engage in the «de-mythologizing» of the Revelation to St. John the Divine, as we must also «de-mythologize» the creation stories in the book Genesis in the Old Testament, we realize that what is being said is that as human existence and the world in which that existence is set has its origin in the circumambient, everlasting, faithful Love that is nothing other than God — we recall Wesley's hymn, quoted a few paragraphs back, that «his nature and his Name is Love», and Dante's great closing line in The Divine Comedy about «the Love that moves the sun and the other stars» — so also the «end» toward which all creaturely existence moves is that very same Love.

Whitehead approaches the question of man's desire for immortality, not by following the traditional path of the soul as having substance, but that every act, every event, every realization of value has everlasting significance and contributes everlastingly to the nature of things.

Everlasting life is everlasting never ends but I can walk away from it without changing Everlasting life is everlasting never ends but I can walk away from it without changing everlasting never ends but I can walk away from it without changing its nature.

The consequent nature constitutes an everlasting concrescence, having no end (finis), and actual entities can not be prehended while in concrescence.

But if my argument in «The Creation of «Eternal» Objects» (cited in note 5) is correct, and «eternal objects» are not uncreated but are temporally emergent, the primordial nature is absorbed into the divine everlasting experience.

«The consequent nature of God is the fluent world become «everlasting» by its objective immortality in God.»

And the many temporal occasions giving fluency to the finite world are completed and gain permanence by their everlasting union in the consequent nature of God.

Each event has everlasting significance in the consequent nature of God.

«38 What we have learned, if this account is true, is that every act, every event, every realization of value has everlasting significance and contributes everlastingly to the nature of things.

Death becomes not the sheer destruction or obliteration of life but merely its termination, the setting of a limit to the total number of indestructible experiences that comprise a given life.49 Secondly, in urging upon man the principle that his actions help determine the nature of God's everlasting memory of him, it gives very powerful inducement to highly moral and unselfish living within a cosmic perspective.50 Finally, it affirms a cosmic basis for absolutely cherishing the worth of life's every moment, inasmuch as «each moment of life is an end in itself, and not just a means to some future goal.

The process - relational model of God as the most extensive exemplification of primordial creativity, with every worldly occasion in its own process of becoming; the process - relational concept of God as the principle of order channeling the world's becoming toward ever richer and more harmonious experience (the primordial nature); and the process - relational concept of God's preservation of every worldly occasion in God's own everlasting becoming (the consequent nature), with each such occasion evaluated and positioned for its greatest possible contribution to the divine life — these perspectives on divine reality which process - relational thought claims to find exemplified in the very nature of things are separately and together congruent with and supportive of the biblical images and events which describe the «already» in inaugurated eschatology.»

In the «consequent nature» of God, each occasion of the temporal world is preserved as a datum for God's everlasting self - actualization.

Viewed from the vantage point of Whitehead's conclusion and the recognition that God is an actual entity in which the two natures are abstract parts, we must say that God as a whole is everlasting, but that he envisages all possibility eternally.

The consequent nature of God is «everlasting.»

If the consequent nature of God is «the judgment of a tenderness which loses nothing that can, be saved, «4 does this mean that every positive value is everlasting in God?

It is a concept in which the attributions of eternity and everlastingness are made in a differentiated fashion: God is eternal in the primordial nature, but everlasting in the consequent nature.

Subjectivity requires subjective aim, which is not ascribed to God until the final chapter asserting the everlasting, temporal nature of God.

However, the passage Christian quotes refers, in Whitehead's text, explicitly to God's primordial nature, which according to Whitehead is precisely not «everlasting» but «eternal» in the sense of atemporal (PR 345).

A profoundly learned and thoughtful man whose very face showed the deep sensitivity of his nature, thus pondered the three main positions that seem open to us on the question of everlasting life.

This is the meaning of a very enigmatic statement that appears on the very last page of Process and Reality: «Throughout the perishing occasions in the life of each temporal Creature, the inward source of distaste or of refreshment, the judge arising out of the very nature of things, redeemer or goddess of mischief, is the transformation of Itself, everlasting in the Being of God.

According to Wilson, Darwin told his contemporaries «that their land - grabs in Africa, their hunger for stock - market wealth in the face of widespread urban poverty, their rigid class system and their everlasting wars were not things to be ashamed of, but actually part of the processes of nature».

The footprints she has left on our continent will bear everlasting witness to posterity that a great lady, A true Pan-African and a lover of nature, walked this earth.

By the time the kitten is about six months previous, the deciduous tooth can have fallen out and been replaced by 30 everlasting teeth — tailored by Mother Nature for catching prey, ripping it to pieces and chewing it up.

The ephemeral nature of these paintings is confronted with eternal and everlasting culture.

From the outer to the inner, from dynamism to stillness, the works in the galleries demonstrates the artists» insight in a much quieter way towards everlasting propositions and thoughts of nature and scenery.