Sentences with phrase «genuine freedom»

7 It is enough that he was perfect on the necessity of genuine freedom in philosophy of religion.

Not because He was powerless, but because in His great power and wisdom, He gave genuine freedom to His creatures.

We all act as if we were free: that action is itself proof enough of our own genuine freedom.

Our decisions, made in such genuine freedom as is ours, have their part in the wider and more pervasive creative advance.

The point for now is that one of the results of genuine freedom is an increase in potential chaos.

The case for genuine freedom of thought, we have to show, is the case against the dogmatism of Harvard's communal theory of justice.

God has given humans genuine freedom, so much so that if they choose to reject Him, He honors their choice, including the painful consequences (for them AND for Him) that their choice entails.

In this way does the prophecy of failure, evoked by those who take the fact of racism as barring forever blacks» access to the rich possibilities of American life, fulfill itself: «Loyalty to the race» in the struggle to be free of oppression requires the sacrifice of a primary instrument through which genuine freedom might be attained.

Henry would have no sympathy at all for the position advanced by the process theologians and accepted by feminists and Alvin Plantmga, 4 who insist that genuine freedom requires complete immunity from divine control.

If genuine freedom involves risk and loss, then traditional theology leaves us unfree.

It includes the processive, societal, dynamic picture of the cosmos; it sees that we have to do with events or happenings and not with inert and static «things»; it insists on genuine freedom and readiness to accept the consequences of decisions made in that freedom; and it is prepared to see that however difficult this may seem to be, it is persuasion rather than coercion which in the long run is effective in the world.

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The book critically dispatches theories that identify genuine freedom and autonomy with subjectivism and proportionalism or «teleologism.»

No, God is intimately involved in our daily lives, but this first point of the chaos theory simply argues that God is such a believer in having true relationships with His creatures, that He gave us true and genuine freedom within creation, so that we can choose to love and serve Him (or not).

Hartshorne clearly realizes that the manner of his defense of genuine freedom necessitates a definite break with metaphysical determinism in all its guises; and, consequently, he launches a vigorous attack upon it in several of his works.

To experience genuine freedom, to be wholly transparent, to love unconditionally... some days, I literally ache for want of it; and honestly, on those days all that holds me together is the knowledge that God himself aches for each of us to be fully free, fully loved, whole.

The answer must be the conversion of culture by well - educated men and women who know what the West owes to Catholicism as a civilizing force, and who are prepared to bring the Catholic imagination to bear on reconstructing a culture capable of sustaining genuine freedom — freedom for excellence — in social, political, and economic life.

If we are to exercise genuine freedom of choice, and if this contingency is to be reflected in the structure of Being itself, will and intellect can not be the same, but Thomas will not allow this (Pt.

Holding the Coalition's policies up to the goals of facilitating civic participation, securing genuine freedom for citizens and delivering the common good, we can see how reforms have been clothed in republican rhetoric, but failed to deliver on the principles.

«I help distressed clients connect with and express their emotions so they can gain personal acceptance, address their challenges, and move forward in genuine freedom.

The educational system should be organized in a way that offers genuine freedom and treats every religious tradition fairly, neither discriminating against nor benefiting any unequally.

In developing his method, Hartshorne has provided a complex logic for analyzing such terms as omnipotence and omniscience so that there is a place for evil in his understanding of the nature of things, for genuine freedom, and for a deity who works through persuasion.

The reason there is an unforgivable sin is because God gave humans genuine freedom to choose a relationship with him, or reject him.

The rationale is that, since freedom is such a great good, God voluntarily gave up all - controlling power, in order to allow us to have genuine freedom and the other values that presuppose it.

Yes, it may have it's little thrills and little toys that the keeper puts in there to amuse his pets, but the best of these is nothing compared to genuine freedom.

I for one can't wrap my head around the idea that a known future and genuine freedom are logically compatible.

Yet because God created a world where people have genuine freedom and can behave in ways that are contrary to His will, God can not take away human freedom when they try to use it in ways that He doesn't like.

Pure moral heteronomy is a «responsibility» that is simply imposed moral duty without any genuine freedom or spontaneity.

The PACT educational vision is therefore underpinned not just by the idea that the parents are the first educators of their children, with all that that entails (including the understanding that «the family is the first school of those social virtues which everyday society needs», as the Second Vatican Council's Declaration on Christian Education puts it), but also by the idea that an education in the virtues is the basis of genuine freedom.

Oomen rejects such immutable omniscience, which undercuts any genuine freedom.

This means that genuine freedom and self - determination are inherent within each emerging creature in the world.

But when we misuse this freedom and power, God does not (indeed can not) simply stop the ways we abuse our freedom and power, for then it would no longer be genuine freedom or power.

Even an omnipotent and loving God would not create free creatures who would always choose to do good — for to ensure that, God would have to deprive them of genuine freedom (which includes the freedom to do wrong).

Thus he believes that there is no genuine freedom — he's a determinist.

With it we know also that we are able to decide, in some genuine freedom, for or against these goals, in that we can cut off one possibility by adopting another.

In its structure, the Barmen Declaration proclaims that genuine freedom is found in the message of grace from Jesus Christ who is the Lord of the church.

Since there is no freedom from authority, the question becomes what authority offers a genuine freedom — a freedom to live in the truth.

Fourth, and finally, at every level of creation there is genuine freedom, exercised at the moment when decisions for or against new possibilities must be made.