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Nevertheless, these operations show that there exists no such immutability in the traditional form of bourgeois property as it exists in our countries.

Aquinas concentrated his attention on the doctrine of divine immutability in Question 9, repeating there that God is «first being» and «pure act, without the admixture of any potentiality.»

Theodore explains this process thus: «God separated history into two ages that man might be led from mortality and mutability to immortality and immutability in the new age.»

This brings us to the question of change and immutability in the Church's doctrine.

Not exact matches

The Ethereum Foundation's Jamie Pitts also weighed in, opining that while Ethereum's oft -(and inaccurately) touted immutability «is a special property which has many measurable benefits,» it does not «absolve us of moral or legal responsibility for what happens in the Ethereum network.»

Digging deeper, however, it becomes clear that the same immutability of the underlying ledger that makes blockchain so attractive to contract lawyers and financial clearinghouses, also made it relatively easy to catch the bad guys in the Silk Road case.

There will be much to discuss in the coming days and months, including how to make contracts safer, how to incorporate fail safe mechanisms, whether the manner the decision was made can be improved, how to assure businesses they can be certain of immutability based on the assumption 51 % are honest actors and much more.

BlitzPredict, for instance, is particularly interested in bringing the immutability of blockchain technology to disrupt the predictive markets for sports.

SA: Yes, immutability and the absence of a third party in charge of it.

We should keep this in mind when we think about another aspect of God's eternity: his immutability.

So what is at work here in insisting on applying abstract philosophical concepts of immutability and impassibility to the Christian's God?

That is to say, they wanted to bring the ethical insight of the Jewish tradition, found preeminently in the Hebrew prophets, into the Hellenistic insistence on changelessness, immutability, and impassability.

Consequently, according to Moltmann and others, the only God we can believe in now is a God who suffers, and the ancient Christian doctrines of divine simplicity, immutability, and impassibility must be discarded.

Instead of perfection as unchangeableness or immutability, they speak of perfection as love in its highest and fullest degree, adapting itself unceasingly to concrete situations.

God's perfection is seen in the divine changelessness, immutability, impassability, and eternity.

Just this: that, far from being unconcerned about the human plight, the Church Fathers were motivated by their theology of salvation in upholding doctrines of divine immutability and impassibility (God's transcendence of human suffering and passions).

Mascall's view is that philosophy demands that we maintain the traditional view of the immutability and impassibility of God and that this view is in full harmony with the basic witness of the Bible.

Immutability, impassibility, and doctrines such as the eternal generation of the Son have been abandoned or reduced in importance by large sections of the evangelical world.

In The Crucified God (originally, 1972), an intentionally provocative title, Moltmann saw clearly that traditional Christian thought tried to resolve the tension between God's love and God's self - contained immutability by championing the Stoic elevation of apatheia as a way of characterizing a divine love that is no in way affected by the recipient of that lovIn The Crucified God (originally, 1972), an intentionally provocative title, Moltmann saw clearly that traditional Christian thought tried to resolve the tension between God's love and God's self - contained immutability by championing the Stoic elevation of apatheia as a way of characterizing a divine love that is no in way affected by the recipient of that lovin way affected by the recipient of that love.

Even so, Schleiermacher surrendered very little, and his own consciousness's appropriation of God's being, «in relation to us» of course, included and emphasized the traditional attributes of omnipotence, eternity, omnipresence, and omniscience.5 And for him, «immutability» is already contained within the notion of God's eternity.6 Causality within the entire system of nature can be exhaustively accounted for by God's causal activity.7 Following the lead of Aquinas, Schleiermacher declared that there is no distinction between potential and actual in God.8

In these and other respects even the Church's unchangeable dogma can have a history and can change even in spite of its immutabilitIn these and other respects even the Church's unchangeable dogma can have a history and can change even in spite of its immutabilitin spite of its immutability.

He will recognize in the change itself the immutable which would itself be betrayed by rigid immutability: fidelity to the eternal Gospel and obedience to the Lord of history, which both go to produce the change in the Church's legislation.

First, he believes that in the modern era, the Church Fathers» ideas about divine attributes, traditionally dear to Catholics and Protestants alike — such as divine perfection, simplicity, eternity, and immutability — have to be evaluated anew in light of a narrative reading of the Gospel.

That distinction being presupposed, let us first ask what is to be said on the question of mutability or immutability of canon law and the Catholic style of life bound up with it, if we may so describe all the practices, rules, modes of behaviour in a Catholic's church life and his secular life lived on Christian lines, which hold good or previously held good through education, church precept etc..

To speak about God the Holy Trinity in the midst of the modern world, we have to speak also, in part at least, about human philosophical knowledge of God, about God's simplicity, eternity, immutability, infinity, and so on.

To them precisely the unshakable immutability of the Church's doctrine and life seemed a decisive characteristic of the Catholic Church in contrast both to other Christian denominations and to the spirit of the age generally.

Consequently what will have to be said in a moment regarding the mutability and immutability of the Church's doctrine of faith applies to them.

Isaak August Dorner, «On the Proper Version of the Dogmatic Concept of the Immutability of God,» in God and Incarnation in Mid-Nineteenth Century German Theology, edited and translated by Claude Welce (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).

It is therefore inappropriate to accentuate, as has been done in some past evangelical experience, the immutability of Christian truth once formulated, as if that authority were enjoyed by our articulations rather than being reserved to the canonical texts themselves and the historical events behind them.

The «suppressed premise» here is actually the focusing of a whole metaphysic emphasizing the «perfection» and «immutability» of God and a highly deterministic view of God's working in the world more obviously at home in the «high Calvinism» of the old Princeton theology.

Shall a man in truth will one thing, then this one thing that he wills must be such that it remains unaltered in all changes, so that by willing it he can win immutability.

This manifests itself not only in the way in which Aristotelian notions of the «unmoved mover» or neo-Platonic ideas of «being - subsisting from - itself» have been taken to be the proper definition of what is meant when we speak of «God», but also in liturgical language where all too often the basic concept implied or (as most often seems to be the case) affirmed is the utter immutability of deity, along with the rigidly legalistic moralism which it is suggested should mark those who claim to «obey» the divine mandates.

God's eternity and immutability have been contrasted with the ephemeral character of historical events in such a way as to depreciate efforts at social transformation.

11Apparently, he (and his community) could not quite believe that God was utterly atemporal, but he still could reconcile his views with Greek immutability by drawing upon the traditional view of creation in seven days.

In classical theism, which insists upon God's simplicity, immutability, and eternality, the eternal essence of God was all that could possibly be revealed of God.

To put the same point in theological terms, the immutability and the impassivity of God are notions which hide from us the creative loving God.

A God not hemmed in by a doctrine of immutability becomes open to the adventure of divine love.

God's immutability has been disputed by the preferability of a divine nature that is open to, and responsive to, new developments, in continuity with the biblical witness.

God's immutability is also underscored in regard to the relationship of the eternal God to temporality.

The conclusion seems unavoidable: Aquinas has expanded Augustine's definition of love in a useful direction, but the fundamental problem limiting the meaning of God's love by virtue of God's essential immutability and transtemporality has not been surmounted.

By understanding their presence in time and their creative participation in its unfolding, people overcome their sense of life's immutability and find courage for a transformed future.

Through collecting and reworking many of his previously published articles, Ford will attempt in this new book to formulate the requisite complementary natural theology for Whitehead's cosmology in historical conversation with, and in dialectical opposition to, a number of contrasting perspectives on creativity, temporality, immutability, theodicy, and technical (internal) problems in process metaphysics put forth by Robert Neville, Norris Clarke, Donald Sherburne, and other colleagues over the years.

«In these (new mission fields and changing social structures) and other respects even the Church's unchanging dogma can have a history and can change in spite of its immutabilitIn these (new mission fields and changing social structures) and other respects even the Church's unchanging dogma can have a history and can change in spite of its immutabilitin spite of its immutability.

15 The denial of immutability leads immediately to the denial of impassibility, the direct consequence, though sometimes that runs in exactly the opposite direction to the same result.

But first what argument does Plato present in Republic II for divine immutability?

But as many «culturist» critics of science note, this belief is belied by the fact that apologists for science tend to defend their position by passionate appeals to the universality and immutability of the «laws of nature» that science progressively and objectively discovers: laws that it would be absurd to view as socially constructed.3 Such an objection, however, fails to take note of the fact that, as Whitehead puts it, «Nature is patient of interpretation in terms of Laws which happen to interest us» (AI 136).

The traditional Christian belief regarding both the divinity of Jesus and the immutability of God is formulated in a set of static, non-temporal categories that give the impression of a certain absoluteness about these matters which is heedless of their relation to the temporal.

It seems to do violence both to his affirmation of the divinity of Jesus and to his belief in the absolute immutability of God.

From Plato, who defined time as a moving (i.e., imperfect) image of eternity, down to St. Thomas, who stressed the perfect immutability of his Supreme Being in terms indistinguishable from the language of the Eleatic school, we can trace the same persistent theme — a metaphysical dichotomy of Being and Becoming, of perfection and imperfection, of the timeless and the temporal realms.

Again, when Kierkegaard defended freedom in the same human - divine context (but did not alter the immutability of deity and thus fell behind the Socinians) how long was it before anyone saw what was wrong and that the job had been better done long before?