Sentences with phrase «idea of god occurred»

The development of Whitehead's idea of God occurred only gradually in his writings.

Not exact matches

since God made homosexuals, and all these heterosexuals keep producing gay kids and we have evidence of homosexuality occurring in another animals as well as neuroscience and social sciences since 1963 stating that being gay isn't a disease but a natural orientation and since the writers of the bible would have no clue that it could be an orientation (just as they could have no idea that the world isn't flat, not up on pillars, nor is it surrounded by water, nor was the earth created from a leviathan carcass) thus it is permissible and subject to the same statutes heterosexuals are.

If by God's «glory» we understand a majestic court scene in which God is seated upon a great throne, lording it over the creation and gloating in his divine magnificence, then the phrase suggests ideas that are the exact opposite of the «Galilean vision» of the Love which is self - giving, gladly receptive, utterly ungrudging in generous openness to all that occurs in the created order.

I agree but add: God had no alternative to willing that there be some free creatures, first because (pace Alston) the idea of not creating at all could occur (if I may say so) only to a confused creature, second because, as Peirce, Bergson, and Whitehead have seen, by a «creature» we can consistently mean only a lesser form of the freedom or creativity which in eminent form is deity.

For example, both Zwingli and Calvin, among others, were deceived by the proper idea of God's absolute Lordship and power into formulating doctrines of God's causal efficacy for all that occurs in the world.

Defenses of the idea that the universe is God's body occur both with (McFague) and without (Jantzen) knowledge of Hartshorne's ideas.

When the wheels hit the runway, everyone applauded and it occurred to me in that moment that maybe human beings just weren't meant to fly; maybe we're pushing the limits of what God designed us to do; maybe it's not a good idea to live in such a way that not falling from the sky to your death is an occasion for celebration.

Nonetheless, ordinary Catholics within a state of grace are heirs to the Kingdom of God, and the graced imagination's new ideas and solutions to difficult problems, are evident in the daily course of events that occur in school, work, families or, as Pope Francis hopes, creative solutions to the environmental crises.

Ford commented briefly on this idea in The Lure of God, but a decisive shift occurred subsequently when he began to wonder how we can intelligibly speak of «the influence» of the Consequent Nature if it can not be prehended.

Firstly the idea that little of scientific consequence occurred during the period due to a mindset that was «darkened» through a belief in God, and secondly that the Catholic Church held back scientific progress in this period for it only to be liberated through the advance of a more «scientific» and secular age.

I'm not necessarily precluding the idea that a sort of god might have helped evolution occur, We can't really «disprove» something like that.