Sentences with phrase «in creatio»

Process theology is, I think, misguided in allowing a preference for creativity to lose the values in creatio ex nihilo.

Not exact matches

If we understand creatio ex nihilo, the Incarnation, miracles, and the Last Judgment in orthodox ways, then these doctrines seem to require divine coercion..

We have already seen how defending God's omnipotence required the development of a doctrine of creatio ex nihilo in Theophilus and Irenaeus, a notion not at all explicit in Genesis 1:2 where, when God began to create, all was «a formless void.»

Reference was made to Tradition, especially to the Decree of the Biblical Commission in 1909 which laid down that a special creation (peculiaris creatio) of the first man was to be held to be the literal historical sense intended by the second chapter of Genesis.

Pure coercive power transforms creatio ex nihilo into creatio ex deo, with the world possessing no more independent actuality than an idea in the divine mind would have.

In latin, creator (maker) is considered masculine, associated with the left brain, and creatio (choice) is connected to the feminine, right brain.

But Polkinghorne is a theist who believes in an active God, so he combines creatio ex nihilo with creatio continua to emphasize God's continuing involvement in nature.

I find creatio ex nihilio difficult too, which is one reason I do not belive in God.

Here the creature has a power that in a slight way resembles, but falls far short of, creatio ex nihilo.

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Although this book is not part of the Protestant Bible, it does show that in a setting in which matter is held to be virtually eternal, the biblical understanding of God as Creator leads naturally to a creatio ex nihilo position since the alternative compromises the sovereignty of God over nature).

This fundamentally affirmative and confident attitude to the creation is reinforced by the doctrine of creatio ex nihilo (Heb 11:3), which, as we noted, was not available to the writers of the Hebrew Scriptures, emerging as it does in the intertestamental period.

Consistently with its rejection of this doctrine, process theism holds that God necessarily and hence always exists in relation to «others» with their own power, whereas traditional theism's acceptance of the doctrine of creatio ex nihilo means that God faced «no prior constraints apart from those of logical consistency.»

What we are not justified in doing on the basis of known usage is to read into bara» anywhere in the Hebrew Scriptures later metaphysical understandings of the idea of creation, such as creatio ex nihilo, which is not the sense of Genesis 1:1 f. and is indeed not found in Jewish religious writing until 2 Maccabees 7:28, where there is undoubted Hellenistic influence.

This is indeed creatio ex amore, and it is not a one - time matter in the beginning of history.

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