Sentences with phrase «functions as the principle»

This effect of the world upon God is an essential part of the process whereby God functions as the principle of limitation.

Already in the earlier books it is clear that God functions as principle of limitation by ordering the eternal objects.

This envisagement is not something additional to his function as principle of limitation, but it explains how that principle operates.

This same Spirit functions as the principle of the immanence of God in creation and the participation of creation in the divine life.

Moreover, speech can not function as the principle that distinguishes the «otherness» of the creatures from the Creator.

It further functions as a principle of social criticism; any idea or social reality in the present social order that does not conform to the vision of God's reign is to be rejected.

In Religion in the Making God is a non-temporal actual entity who functions as this principle, i.e.,»... the indetermination of mere creativity is transmuted into a determinate freedom.»

But if, as I hold, God can function as principle of limitation only by entertaining a specific aim for each becoming occasion, that aim must take account of the actual situation in the world.

«11 «This envisagement -LRB-(of eternal objects)-RRB- is not something additional to his function as principle of limitation, but it explains how that principle operates.

Cobb says,»... the way in which God functions as the principle of limitation is by ordering the infinite possibilities of the eternal objects according to principles of value.

Not exact matches

«There's a permaculture principle known as stacking functions, the notion that everything you plant in a garden should serve at least three functions.

What is most striking about this episode is that by all appearances, Cochran's department functioned as a model of principled pluralism.

Either one recognises the priority of reason, of creative Reason that is at the beginning of all things and is the principle of all things — the priority of reason is also the priority of freedom -, or one holds the priority of the irrational, inasmuch as everything that functions on our earth and in our lives would be only accidental, marginal, an irrational result — reason would be a product of irrationality.

In the light of such a critical function of theology in relation to the generalizations of metaphysics, metaphysical «principles,» «laws,» and «categories» do not appear as (transcendental) conditions of any possible experience, but as that of real experience.35 In a certain sense, Whitehead found a way to initialize a theological project without developing it; and he grounded it in the imperfection of all metaphysical systems in relation to actual events that have the power to reconstruct categories in the passage of the events.

A kind of rational intuition is needed to perceive the general principles which are there ready - made in actuality.6 Or if patterned on the genetic - functional model, the generalizations have as their subject - matter «distinctions that arise in and because of inquiry into the subject - matter of experience - nature, and then they function or operate as divisions of labor in the further control and ordering of its materials and processes» (DWP 175).

But notice that to arrive at this understanding of the principle, we must assume that in it the verb «to constitute» is functioning as a copula — that it merely links the grammatical subject to a predicate nominative, thus establishing the identity of «being» and «becoming».

This is why, according to that principle, «it is the one general metaphysical character of all entities of all sorts, that they function as objects.

The answer is that theology is a very human, and very important, enterprise; that grasping and assimilating what God has done and continues to do is not something that can be engaged in passively but is a challenge to everything any of us possesses; that the separation of theologizing from what the minister and the church try, fallibly but authentically, to hear of the Word of God in specific situations from some alleged and remote theology is bound to be blasphemous as well as mistaken; and that the one way to hear the Word of God, if it contains the Protestant principle, is to submit our functions to concrete self - criticism.

As a mechanical engineer which would include using math and physics principles to help with the design of a product with a particular function; I challenge you now; that when you can create a living person with all your intelligence and not use a woman to do it; I will be happy to listen to you... until then, I believe that God the Father and Son and Holy Spirit worked together in 6 literal days and rested on the 7th Day and Santified and Hallowed that day.

12 Even on the assumption of a Vitalism of essentially higher principles of that kind, which raise the organic, as an intrinsically higher level of reality, above merely inorganic matter, and constitute biology as an independent science, and even if we regard the entelechy factor as simple and indivisible, there would only be an eductio e potentia materiae when a new living being came into existence, if we excluded creation in this case in the way it is exemplified in the human soul, though that is not very easy to prove, and at the same time rejected the not at all absurd supposition that in the generation of new life below the human level what happens is only the extension of the entelechial function of one and the same vital principle to a new position in space and time within inorganic matter.

The several aspects of pastoral care for the emotionally disturbed described above set forth some principles and structure for the functioning of community clergy as they become involved with crises in the parish and in the community mental health setting.

One might suppose that market principles have always dominated business, but, as I have noted, business itself requires the functioning of other values.

Though instruction concerning principles is the science teacher's primary function, he is also cast as interpreter of the scientific enterprise.

The difference between process historical thinkers and most other empiricists may be analogous to the difference between Neils Bohr and Albert Einstein: while both are empiricists, Bohr sees physical change as a function of unrepeatable quantum events, while Einstein sees change as a function of enduring relativity principles.

Pentecost is that mediated ideal refracted and shining through a vast multiplicity of subsequent self - formations, and functioning to a greater or lesser degree as their root principle.

Thus the function which the tradition about Jesus performed in the life and worship of the Church came to be recognized as the organizing principle in the formation of the individual stories and sayings, and in the formation of the Gospels themselves.

As to the question «what» it is evident that for Whitehead the whole burden of the answer rests upon the notion of creativity, in both of its «functions,» namely, as principle of unification and as principle of novelty The basic feature of reality is its creativity, and that creativity is always a particular way of bringing together the given multiplicity The way this is done explains why these actualities are the way they arAs to the question «what» it is evident that for Whitehead the whole burden of the answer rests upon the notion of creativity, in both of its «functions,» namely, as principle of unification and as principle of novelty The basic feature of reality is its creativity, and that creativity is always a particular way of bringing together the given multiplicity The way this is done explains why these actualities are the way they aras principle of unification and as principle of novelty The basic feature of reality is its creativity, and that creativity is always a particular way of bringing together the given multiplicity The way this is done explains why these actualities are the way they aras principle of novelty The basic feature of reality is its creativity, and that creativity is always a particular way of bringing together the given multiplicity The way this is done explains why these actualities are the way they are.

The concept of individual identity as consisting in a continuity of reactions functions as a regulative principle for the process that renders the output (ultimately the world) intelligible.

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

Form here is understood not as a distinct metaphysical principle but rather as a repeatable function of a relationship between an individual and its environment.

According to Whitehead's conviction, the function of religion is not comprehended if religion is defined in principle and primarily as a social fact.

Theories that posit the logic of binary oppositions, on the other hand, fail to accommodate the Whiteheadian «principle of relativity» according to which a subject constitutes itself Out of its prehensions of its past world, and then in turn functions objectively as a datum in the past world of all subsequent occasions (Whitehead, Process 214; 43).

For Whitehead, God first functioned as «the principle of limitation,»... In Process and Reality, the eternal objects are organized together and given their respective «relational essences» by the primordial or non-temporal activity of God.

In the writings of black women one glimpses their fundamental experience of functioning as the «reality principle» for the entire race.

A letter from Smith and the shadow welfare secretary, Debbie Abraham, to the Northern Ireland secretary, James Brokenshire, warns: «This measure is being introduced in the absence of a functioning executive in Northern Ireland... To impose such changes from Westminster, especially through the back door of a statutory instrument without scrutiny even by committee, is completely at odds with principles of the devolution settlement as agreed under the Good Friday agreement and subsequent agreements, including Fresh Start.»

I fully support ERGP's underlying principles - tackling constraints to growth identified as fuel, power, foreign currency, capricious regulation, skills and technology; leveraging the private sector; allowing markets to function; and promoting national values, cohesion and social inclusion.

It's something which would probably happen automatically as a result of one of my manifesto proposals (a requirement that laws must be consistent, where possible, with uncontroversial principles such as equality of opportunity) but it's the kind of thing that a properly functioning system would do automatically, without requiring the general public to agitate about it.

Topics discussed encompassed the legislative, informational and financial control functions of parliament, Directive Principles of State Policy, functions of the Public Accounts Committee, as well as duties of the various caucuses in Parliament.

The American Engineers» Council for Professional Development defines Engineering as: «The creative application of scientific principles to design or develop structures, machines, apparatus, or manufacturing processes, or works utilizing them singly or in combination; or to construct or operate the same with full cognizance of their design; or to forecast their behavior under specific operating conditions; all as respects an intended function, economics of operation and safety to life and property.»

The research team, led by Bosch, use the freshwater polyp Hydra as the model organism to elucidate the fundamental principles of nervous system structure and function.

The goal of the NIH program, as described on its website, is «to understand the principles behind the three - dimensional organization of the nucleus in space and time (the fourth dimension), the role nuclear organization plays in gene expression and cellular function, and how changes in the nuclear organization affect normal development as well as various diseases.»

Fraden noted that «the engineering principles they identified are general and can be applied to design a whole range of other Central Pattern Generators, such as those responsible for other autonomous functions, such as the gait of a horse, for example, walk, canter, trot and gallop.»

Also toxicity tests, such as on cosmetic products, can function according to the same principle and may replace animal experiments in the future.

In contrast, notes study co-author Dzmitry Matsukevich, a Joint Quantum Institute postdoctoral researcher, the new setup functions as a kind of black box — in principle, one need not understand its workings to see that its output is indeed truly random.

Neural networks function, as their name suggests, based on the same principle as the brain.

«Multivalency as chemical organisation and action principle: New architectures, functions and applications».

Sten Grillner has elucidated basic principles of neural circuit organization and function that control vertebrate locomotion using lamprey as a model organism.

Although there is obvious variation in brain organization across vertebrate species, the basic brain blueprint has remained remarkably stable for millions of years, as have the mechanistic principles associated with how it regulates various functions, including behavior.

In the lecture, Mr. Bouffier explained the characteristics of the federal community, noting on the federal system that it respects the respective independence of the states and the republic and that the principle of complementarity is functioning effectively, as can be seen in the creation of innovations and consequently in the enhancement of economic development.

It has been seen time and time again that these principles support neural function as well as encourage a happy demeanor in infants and children.