Sentences with phrase «fundamental order of creation»

First, similar to Barth's contention, Thielicke maintains, «The fundamental order of creation and the created determination of the two sexes make it appear justifiable to speak of homosexuality as a «perversion»....

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Yet for all the affinity between the Thomist - Aristotelian theory of natural law and the Lutheran theology of the orders of creation, we will need to observe the fundamental differences between them that Barth's criticism blurs.

We may speak of the fundamental universal structures of life as orders of creation because God continues to create these possibilities of existence in spite of the fact that we live in a world of sin and death.

The concept of a divine «order» (taksis or thesis) in creation certainly plays a fundamental role within Maximus» portrayal of the cosmic drama.

Now it is central to the whole point of David Novak's argument that this entire strategy is founded on a most fundamental error, whose formulation we must cite in full, adding italics to highlight its centrality: «Theologically, the error here is that revelation is essentially reduced to the supreme awareness of an order already present in creation.»