Sentences with phrase «nothing of particular events»

The Christian philosopher can not as a philosopher speak of the unique act of God in Jesus Christ, just as he can say nothing of particular events in any area, but he can and should so structure his ideas as to allow for such unique acts and particular events.

Not exact matches

It so definitely cuts across the usual pattern of our thought that we find it hard to recognize that there is nothing inherently improbable, not to say impossible, in God's choosing to make himself known in a particular series of events.

According to Roger Ames (NAT 117), an «aesthetic order» is a paradigm that: (1) proposes plurality as prior to unity and disjunction to conjunction, so that all particulars possess real and unique individuality; (2) focuses on the unique perspective of concrete particulars as the source of emergent harmony and unity in all interrelationships; (3) entails movement away from any universal characteristic to concrete particular detail; (4) apprehends movement and change in the natural order as a processive act of «disclosure» — and hence describable in qualitative language; (5) perceives that nothing is predetermined by preassigned principles, so that creativity is apprehended in the natural order, in contrast to being determined by God or chance; and (6) understands «rightness» to mean the degree to which a thing or event expresses, in its emergence toward novelty as this exists in tension with the unity of nature, an aesthetically pleasing order.

That hope is probably grounded in some truth because recent events tell us that AGU is capable of dumping shame on particular members with great alacrity, though the most recent example actually had nothing to do with science per se.