Sentences with phrase «from the contingency of»

15 On the other hand some have sought to avoid the difficulties for preaching that have come with the radical historicization of man by trying to secure an area for faith free from the contingencies of historical investigation.

While raising the question of whether abstract art can have a fixed meaning, he argues that abstraction provides no respite from interpretation or retreat from the contingencies of art history.

Not exact matches

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Through a combination of $ 1 billion from the sale of GM shares, a $ 2 billion reduction in the contingency fund and $ 1.8 billion taken out of Employment Insurance (a holdover from Budget 2014), the federal government was able to turn a modest deficit into a $ 1.4 billion surplus.

Lyons contrasted the previous government's approach to that of the Bank of England, which prepared substantial contingency plans to deal with any market fallout from the initial shock of the referendum outcome, and then quickly implemented a sweeping programme of new monetary easing, cutting interest rates to a record low of 0.25 %, and extending quantitative easing.

Airbus is drawing up contingency plans to phase out production of the world's largest jetliner, the A380 superjumbo, if it fails to win a key order from Dubai's Emirates, three people familiar with the matter said.

There would also be an additional $ 1.5 billion from the contingency reserve; however, some of this could be used up by the impact of slower economic growth on revenues and employment insurance benefits.

The emergence of Evangelical Catholicism is a Spirit - led development reflecting the cultural contingencies of history, like other such evolutions over the past two millennia: the evolution from the primitive Church to the Church of the Fathers; the evolution from patristic Catholicism to medieval Catholicism; the development of Counter-Reformation Catholicism (the Church in which anyone over sixty today was raised) from medieval Catholicism.

The Incarnation is not finally conditioned by the contingency of sin, for what happens at the Incarnation is that the selfdistinction of the eternal Son from the Father, which is the ontological principle of creation and its history, itself takes «historical form» and so achieves its full extension.

«God, from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass; yet so, neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures; nor is the liberty or contingency of secondary causes taken away, but rather established.»

The Westminster Confession of Faith states it this way: «God, from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass; yet so, neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures; nor is the liberty or contingency of secondary causes taken away, but rather established.

The Westminster Confession of Faith puts it this way: «God, from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass; yet so, neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures; nor is the liberty or contingency of secondary causes taken away, but rather established.»

Far from being the authors and finishers of our own lives, we are the creatures of what Cheever calls «an indecipherable collision of contingencies that can produce exaltation or despair.»

The point of those analyses and «historical genealogies» that have become an object of derision among the liberals — oddly, from those who advocate a return to Madisonian principles — is certainly not to retreat to the comfort of the library or the coffee shop; nor is it to deny the contingencies of history by suggesting that 1968 follows upon 1776 with some kind of mechanical necessity.

While I would hesitate to engage in a full - out debate of theism vs. atheism on this forum for reasons that I have already stated, I would be interested in hearing your response to the traditional ontological and moral arguments in favor of the existence of God as well as the argument from contingency.

Logically, he would discover God there, and he did not feel the need to make a transition from the ideal to the cosmological order, for the latter was seen as the region of sin, contingency and error, and hence quite irrelevant.

Since God creates the spiritual creature for union with Himself in freedom, which is the highest good, the possibility of sin, and hence suffering, comes from the realities of creaturely contingency.

With the empirical evidence of the universe evolving, it is possible to accept the Thomistic argument from finitude and contingency as recast in evolutionary categories.5 Without the evolutionary category of birth, it would be impossible for us to argue that the universe had a Creator - Ground, for we would have to imagine process as a horizontal straight line that extends in either direction indefinitely and infinitely.

Correlatively, understanding God involves growth in one's grasp of the concept «contingency,» the capacity to discern one's own, and everything else's, radical dependence on God's power; but that is inseparable from, though not the same thing as, growth in one's grasp of the concept «thanks,» a capacity to respond appropriately to that contingency.

That God is must be necessary, hence altogether free from contingency or change; but what God is, beyond the basic fact that he is the ground of his own existence and of all other existents, may without any contradiction contain contingent elements and, therefore, change.

For it would seem that the arguments from order and from contingency either rest on a misunderstanding of what an explanation is, or more likely, on an arbitrary supposition that man's experience is intelligible precisely in this way.

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

Although you may see it as just some sort of rough weekend and not a big deal, or that the whole sacrifice thing may have happened on the fly to fix some faux pas by God the Father, I see it as something that was specifically planed right from before this world was created and that it was not some sort of ad hoc contingency, but something that was part of the Father's plan all along.

When an autonomous nature and an infinite space dawned in the Renaissance, the world was no longer manifest as the creation, and with the subsequent triumph of modern science, contingency in the medieval sense has disappeared from view.

The reason for our failure to see that time could evolve from contingency to non-contingency without being destroyed is perhaps due to the popular image we have of time as a straight line that goes on and on.

In fact, with a view of time as negative, as source of mutability and contingency, some other way has to be found to explain time's origin in order to safeguard God's causality, by saying, e.g., that time is the measure of the degradation resulting from the fall, or that God created a metaphysical and finished universe through an instantaneous creation in which every species, was present from the beginning, instead of a world of becoming and growth.

McCabe concluded that, quite apart from the issue of causality, foreknowledge and contingency are contradictory assertions.

2) name usage statistics do not guarantee the miraculous — but they certainly place an author in that immediate context (or at the very least, with direct access to someone who was from that immediate context), which is a MAJOR contingency that has been much debated in the question of authorship... which IS the topic you raised.

I analyzed the superficial plausibility of Perry's example before in pointing out that it is borrowed from the macroscopic realm which is for all practical purposes deterministic; the predictability of any macroscopic particle is only approximate and does not alter the basic contingencies of the elementary microphysical events of which a «particle» consists.

McCabe was convinced that the longstanding attempt to reconcile absolute prescience with freedom and contingency had prevented Christian theology from developing an adequate doctrine of God, one rooted in the facts of religious experience and scriptural testimony.

The fact that Hartshorne can give little meaning to the «absolute Absolute's» functioning apart from contingency indicates strongly that there may be a failure in his theology to account completely for what many theologians have thought of as the transcendence or holiness of God.

Hartshorne seems to recognize that this reduction has taken place when he says: «I assert a duality in experience, and you and Wieman seem, though I am never sure about this, to assert a monistic view from the standpoint of modality, of contingency and necessity» (Letter of January 22, 1942).

They are subject to Nietzsche's charge that «the traditional Western metaphysico - epistemological way of firming up our habits» can be regarded as «an attempt to avoid facing up to contingency, to escape from time and chance» (PAP 14 - 5).

Sure... 1) Evidence for the existence of God can be found in the Law of Causality applied to the Argument from Contingency.

Of course unrealized potentialities also follow from the first argument, and contingency from the second; for these notions are strictly correlative.

While it is true that very suggestive metaphysical arguments can be drawn from the reality of form, the intelligibility of the universe, consciousness, the laws of physics, or (most importantly) ontological contingency, the mere biological complexity of this or that organism can never amount to an irrefutable proof of anything other than the incalculable complexity of that organism's phylogenic antecedents.

The confidence begotten from the fact that there are discernible regularities in natural occurrences is an important source of morale in an existence that is beset with anxiety - producing contingencies.

Those who do develop a conception of the final good, of the good to be achieved in a life as a whole, often avoid mistakes in practical reasoning and choice, but not even they are immune from disaster striking or from unforeseen future contingencies forcing them to radically alter their plans.

The world was seen as a place of sin, error and contingency; it was not transformable, hence nothing else could be done except to flee from it.

If God's control over the world is absolute in that it is independent of all creaturely contingencies, then God's activity may flow directly from his unchanging nature which was deemed wholly necessary and self - sufficient.

«God from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass; yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures; nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.»

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

In the Judaeo - Christian view, contingency is not the result of an imperfect formation process, but stems from the free will of the omnipotent Creator.

Professor Albritton was diagramming on the blackboard Aquinas» Way to the Existence of God from Contingency and Necessity.

St. Thomas Aquinas, in his monumental work Summa Theologia, offered five proofs for the existence, not the nature but the existence, of God: Proof from Efficient Causality, Proof from Contingency, Proof from Grades of Perfection, Proof from Order.

A slight unevenness of distribution occurring by chance at any given point (a contingency that was bound to arise) was all that was needed to cause the entire edifice to break up into parts which, sundering themselves from their neighbors, coiled in more and more tightly upon themselves in enormous clots — their vastness, by the law of celestial mechanics, being directly proportionate to the lightness of the matter of which they were originally composed.

We should learn from him to choose among: complete necessitarianism or denial of any contingency at all; a wholesale contingency of the system of nondivine things, between the parts of which there is no further contingency; piecemeal contingency among the parts of the system as well as of the system as a whole.

Thus, that we can distinguish humans as a type from other types depends on the contingencies of our world, in particular that it came to be characterized by certain individuals and not others.

Next, recent developments in quantum physics have revealed an ineradicable indeterminacy concerning motions of electrons, and thus we may have a hint from physical science itself that there is some contingency in the ultimate physical particles.

Fourth, man in moments of decision is intuitively aware of contingencies in his actual determinations of the future, for he often chooses from a continuum of infinitely varied possibilities.