Sentences with phrase «finite nature of time»

Learning to savor the people and the experiences we love and to respect the finite nature of time are important lessons in life.

This groundbreaking documentary series provides a tangible, hopeful reminder of the finite nature of our time here on earth.

It provides a tangible, hopeful reminder of the finite nature of our time here on earth.

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, 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.

To fully generalize the foregoing view, even the laws of nature, so far as contingent, are to be attributed to divine decisions made, not in eternity or for all time, but at a finite time in the past.

A second implication of St. Augustine's insight is that God in his own nature (as distinct from the finite human nature assumed by the Word) must be outside of space and time.

This means grasping nature in a way that makes it ours while at the same time leaves it as it is, that is, leaves it as the realm of finite particularity.

This means that an analysis of the structure and relations of any finite actuality should, at the same time, reveal intimations about the nature of its ground.

I argue that God exists in all three time - dimensions simultaneously: as a determinate past actuality in virtue of the divine consequent nature, as an indeterminate future reality in virtue of the divine primordial nature, and as a concrescing present reality in virtue of the ongoing integration of the divine primordial and consequent natures.1 Yet, while I agree with Ford that there is no way for finite actual occasions objectively to prehend that integration of the primordial and consequent natures within God even in terms of their own self - constitution here and now, I would also contend that finite actual occasions still feel the feelings of God toward themselves as a result of that integration of the primordial and consequent natures within the divine being.

In 1972 he turned to words and their immateriality to explore the relationship between abstract categories of thought, such as general and particular, finite and infinite, culture and nature, the passing of historical time and the hypothesis of the eternity of universal physical laws, the routine of experience and the abstraction of philosophical principles.