Change is the acquiring of a new
form by matter and the accompanying loss of the old form.
Not exact matches
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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN),
formed more than half a century ago, has historically struggled with challenges facing the region because it works only
by consensus and is reluctant to get involved in any
matter deemed to be internal to any of its members.
Whether or not the critical acclaim already experienced
by O.J.: Made in America means that television viewers can expect more long -
form, multi-part films from ESPN remains to be seen, as Schell said the longer format is difficult to sustain without the right subject
matter.
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Blessed are the Cheesemakers You should more impressed
by the fact you just expressed Jesus to be of
form and substance more like God than scientifically provable organic
matter that existed and is falsifiable.
To suppose, then, that the actual South known
by the novelist and used
by him makes him a «Southern writer» only insofar as he uses that knowledge as a
matter convenient to his
form is to misunderstand the complexity of place to the soul.
To my mind, it accords better with what we know about the laws impressed upon
matter by the Creator that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants of the world should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual... There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been breathed into a few
forms or into one...»
During this state, it was seen that particulars are not distinguished
by name and
form,
matter is unevolved, and the intelligence of souls is contracted.
«For
matter masters what is imaged in it and corrupts and destroys it
by applying its own nature which is contrary to
form» (1.8.8).
The soul is truly the «
form» of the body as defined
by the Church, for in this the unique and supreme case
matter and
form must be really distinct within the unity of the one being.
Every created agent is limited to bringing about a change in
form only (a sheep can transform grass into its own body
matter by digestion), but God — as the ultimate cause of all being — can surely bring about changes at the level of being: converting one entire substance into another.
By going to what he sees as the heart of the
matter and capturing it in pure and extreme
form, he breaks open the broader question and forces total reconsideration.
Perhaps the quickest way to encapsulate that difference is as follows: while Process and Reality represents a systematic cosmology, Difference and Repetition develops a speculative «chaosmology» At its most simplistic, the distinction in play here is that between a cosmos in which order is imposed upon a primordial chaos «from outside,» or transcendently, (as when
Form is imposed upon
matter by the Platonic demiurge, or harmony established a priori
by the Leibnizean deity), and a chaosmos in which order is generated «from within,»
by a wholly immanent process of self - organization.
Though it purports to eliminate discrimination, Senate Bill 1146 results in its own
form of discrimination
by stigmatizing and coercively punishing religious beliefs that disagree on contested
matters related to human sexuality.
Concrescence, in processes of finite actualization, consists in the progressive reduction of these alternatives to one
form, which is actualized
by the
matter derived from the past.
The ERLC hammered on the same point, releasing a statement that accused the legislation of «its own
form of discrimination
by stigmatizing and coercively punishing religious beliefs that disagree on contested
matters related to human sexuality.»
What
matters in the church is not religion but the
form of Christ, and its taking
form amidst a band of men.25 The problem as well as necessity of non-religious interpretation is posed before us
by way of introducing a question with which he is struggling: «What is bothering me incessantly is the question what Christianity really is, or indeed who Christ really is, for us today.
Even in its lowest
forms living
matter,
by its physico - chemical nature, possesses the extraordinary power of reproducing itself indefinitely in a geometrical progression.
Man's cognition thereby corresponds to the hylomorphic structure of reality [i.e. to the way in which physical objects aredefined
by a combination of
matter and
form].
In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload
by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective
form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning
matters of the common good).
Much of the damage that has been done to Catholicism in recent decades —
by the abuse scandals,
by the ongoing horror stories of mid-twentieth century Catholic life in Ireland,
by forms of intellectual dissent that empty Catholicism of the patrimony of truth bequeathed to it
by the Lord,
by the counter-witness of Catholics in public life who fail to stand firm for the dignity of the human person at all stages of life and in all conditions of life — is a
matter of self - imposed wounds, which Church authorities have an obligation to address.
Weigel must either believe that some propositions are properly subjects for moral judgment, and others not (this truly is a
form of Gnosticism), or that some propositions are more easily held and accepted
by current society, and that the Church as a
matter of pragmatism ought to prioritize low - hanging fruit.
The conclusion I want to pull out of these considerations is this: if there is at least one actual entity in the world characterized
by at least one eternal object, one specific
form of definiteness, then this actual entity provides all the ontological ground required for the realm of eternal objects — an appeal to God is not necessary.11 And, indeed, in Whitehead, as in Aristotle, there is an eternity and an abeternity of becoming so that within the terms of the system it is inconceivable that there be any region of the extensive continuum, no
matter how far it be extended fore or aft, where there is not a generation of actual entities exhibiting concrete
forms of definiteness.
Christianity (not all
forms) is the only «religion» I'm aware of which answers differently: It doesn't
matter if the good outweighs the bad, even
by a ratio of 1 trillion to one; God is holy, and so requires perfect holiness, and the only way to get that is
by God giving it to us
by grace through faith.
So it is with the biological
forms that are but organic
matter and chemical stimuli until acted up
by the Spirit.
metaphysics demands «not a random flexibility, a mere looseness in the application of a method nowhere quite appropriate; it is a uniform or methodical flexibility, in which the method changes from one topic to another because
form and content are changing pari passu as thought, traversing its scale of
forms, gradually approximates to the ideal of a perfectly philosophical subject -
matter treated
by a perfectly philosophical method» (EPM 192).
Given that the large - scale structure of the universe is dominated
by the presence of still mysterious Dark
Matter, and that on the smallest scales empty space sustains quantum oscillations whose energy density dwarfs that of all known forms of matter, we should hesitate to imply that the physical and spiritual realms can not be even partially consubsta
Matter, and that on the smallest scales empty space sustains quantum oscillations whose energy density dwarfs that of all known
forms of
matter, we should hesitate to imply that the physical and spiritual realms can not be even partially consubsta
matter, we should hesitate to imply that the physical and spiritual realms can not be even partially consubstantial.
On the positive side, I am sure you are right that Catholicism goes beyond all other religious traditions, Christian and non-Christian, in the dignity it confers on
matter and the human body; on the negative, we must indeed get rid of «infinitely contrary poles of existence» and the successive swapping of abstract
forms by parcels of intrinsically featureless
matter.
John was there, and more than there as Annas and Caiaphas were there, or Judas for that
matter; — John was
formed from within,
by a unique relationship of personal formation from Jesus Christ, to treasure and value the things that Jesus said and did which expressed Jesus's divine being and relationship to the Father and the Holy Spirit.
Unless we are to suppose that there is little or no correlation between the initial aim and the final
form of the subjective aim — a very strange supposition — we must assume vast differences in the initial aims derived from God
by a primitive man and
by an Einstein, or for that
matter, between myself as I drop off to sleep in the evening and as I write these words.
But we can not deny that, no
matter how great the influence of
forms already in existence may have been at its inception, and no
matter how complex and manifold and colorful its components may appear to be in historical analysis, Mahayana Buddhism is nonetheless a unique phenomenon, which we can not «explain»
by summarizing its constituent elements.
Aristotle described human being as a layered hierarchy of informed
matter, the elements fusing together under the impress of a higher - level
form to compose tissues, tissues serving as the proximate
matter for a yet more complex organizing
form at the level of organs, and organs bound into the active, dynamic organism
by the yet higher
form of soul.
Forest Ray Moulton and Thomas C. Chamberlin in the United States supposed that the sun, under the gravitational pull of some passing star, erupted gigantic globs of
matter which in time
formed planets, and a comparable theory was proposed
by Sir James Jeans and H. Jeffreys.
The answer, he believes, is «that we know what «knowledge» is partly
by knowing God, and that though it is true that we
form the idea of divine knowledge
by analogical extension from our experience of human knowledge, this is not the whole truth, the other side of the
matter being that we
form our idea of human knowledge
by exploiting the intuition... which we have of God» (155).
Although he goes on to insist that this is not the whole truth, what he takes to be the other side of the
matter is that we
form our idea of human knowledge, not
by exploiting our intuition of God as eminently knowing, but
by exploiting our intuition of God — period.
In theory it might seem to be a
matter of indifference whether the imagination were
formed by natural things like seeds sown and growing into plants — lilies — and sparrows flying or falling.
Postulating the creation of
matter leads to a very different perspective on the contingency of our world, compared to the conception of a world
formed by a demiurge.
Creation is the fusion of novel
form with inherited
matter by the self - creative decision of the emergent creature.
The present estimate is that, since hydrogen
forms 25 % of all
matter by mass and helium 75 % of all
matter by mass, all the heavier nuclei appear to be extremely rare — not more than 1 or 2 %
by mass.
Second we can understand the consequences to our faith if the faithful Christ had been saved from the consequences of human distrust and betrayal
by the sort of miraculous interference he himself knew to be possible: the twelve legions of angels of whom he spoke, who might have been Roman soldiers arriving in a nick of time to save Pilate from fear of insurrection, or who might have come in the
form of a natural catastrophe which would have upset all the plans of princes and priests, or who for that
matter might have arrived as superterrestrial beings — men from Mars.
Whereas in the earlier Luther the fear of death was the ultimate
form of unbelief, the Luther who discovered justification
by faith understood that no
matter how great our faith, it can not be strong enough to stave off terror before death.
The sacramental principle, in which created
matter and
form can be apprehended in some authentic way as images of God, and as ways towards union with Him, is fundamental to the Catholic and Orthodox attitude to art, whereas the Protestant theological system relies on the priority of the word over the image as the medium through which God communicates Himself to us, and
by means of which we apprehend Him.
Just as the most intense energy of the male and the most enduring persistence of the female principle
form the unlimited power of nature, as love and life consist in separating and uniting, in restlessness and steadiness, in energy and being, so the creative and the receptive forces work to produce the perfect creation of genius: the more
matter is
formed by the creative force, the more intense the struggle, the greater the effect.
Since every occasion of experience on the Whiteheadian model, no
matter how closely determined
by its antecedents, has a margin of «subjectivity»
by which it
forms itself, is something «for itself,» these occasions partially conform to and partially reject or distort the divine aims.
For if
by its structure Mankind does not dissipate itself but concentrates upon itself; in other words, if, alone among all the living
forms known to us, our zoological phylum is laboriously moving towards a critical point of speciation, then are not all hopes permitted to us in the
matter of survival and irreversibility?
Your advice is good, but for those Christians who are bound
by some
form of legalism no
matter how small could miss the good stuff.
Why, as the white radiance comes through the dome, with all sorts of staining and distortion imprinted on it
by the glass, or as the air now comes through my glottis determined and limited in its force and quality of its vibrations
by the peculiarities of those vocal chords which
form its gate of egress and shape it into my personal voice, even so the genuine
matter of reality, the life of souls as it is in its fullness, will break through our several brains into this world in all sorts of restricted
forms, and with all the imperfections and queernesses that characterize our finite individualities here below.
«12 On the other hand for Aristotle it is once again
matter that gives a natural being its potentiality to ground newly arising beings
by enabling it to take on endlessly different
forms.13 What Whitehead demands with his «principle of relativity» is furnished in Aristotle
by matter as the ground of fundamental changeableness and hence of the process character of natural beings.
Original sin was, and is, a transcendental catastrophe, whereby every iota of
matter - energy in the universe, divinely intended to be one, immortal, fully alive body, perfectly shared
by all living
forms, is fallen and blemished.