Sentences with phrase «idea of god determines»

Also for Hegel, the acceptance of a certain form of religion conditions the development of a corresponding form of political community: a people's idea of God determines what they are, and accordingly the form of their states.

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To put the matter baldly, a person of religious conviction should not want to enter the marketplace of ideas but to shut it down, at least insofar as it presumes to determine matters that he believes have been determined by God and faith.

In such ideas may lie the ancient meaning of the baptismal bath, which gave John the Baptist a right to employ it in connection with his preaching about the coming judgment: a voluntary and therefore precautionary forestalling of the great catastrophe which God had determined shortly to bring upon the world.

The whole idea of God is hence endangered; for it has lost its meaning, if God is not thought of as the Power which determines man in his present existence.

To test it we must determine what sense can be made out of the idea of «faith in God» when it is ordered by the onto - epistopsychological categories I have just set forth.

Admitting the idea is not half - bad (and thus, conversely, only half - good), York enlists the aid of numerous ministers, theologians, spiritual warriors, pagans, shamanists, fortune tellers, and Satanists in his quest to determine the whereabouts of God's first fallen creature.

I was determined to finish the first draft of my book by the end of the summer, but the Gods of News seemed to have other ideas.