Sentences with phrase «of free creatures»

In fact, Bonhoeffer declares that «God is worshiped first by the earth, «21 which might raise questions about worship as an act of free creatures toward a Creator.

But theologically we may still find the instinct of the New Testament synthesis significant, that in God himself there is a fullness and perfection that is unchanging and outside space and time, and that it is this which makes God the proper telos for a creation in which the mystery of that fullness is unpacked only through the ages of the evolutionary process, which passes through a series of increasingly critical stages and is now precariously poised in a dependence on the rational response of free creatures.

Tragedy occurs because of the incompatibility of a multitude of free creatures each freely pursuing its «creaturely answer.»

Not exact matches

Here is where the potentially bad effects still linger: While Netscape was born and grew as a creature of the free markets, it faded away having embraced more government involvement and interference in American business.

The younger Ertz is indicative of perhaps the biggest hurdle facing Vicis at this point: NFL players are free to choose their own helmet brands and, like a lot of top athletes, are also creatures of habit.

Being willing to deal with them as you would an evil, blood - sucking creature of the dark is the second step in freeing yourself from them.

We talk about free will, but we are all creatures and captives of our habits.

Now if you don't want to accept this, that's Ok, you are a creature of free choice and you can do as you want, just remember what I tell you today when you stand before God on judgement day; the only problem then is that it will be too late to change your mind and do differently.

We might think that a chimpanzee is exercising free will when it chooses to chomp on a banana, or a cat when it rips up your sofa, but what about the roundworm called Caenorhabditis elegans — a simple creature made of only 959 cells?

The nature of significant freedom dictates that God's creative choices are limited by the decisions which he knows free creatures would make if created (NN 169 - 84).

(6) God can not make a person (P) significantly free with respect to an action (A) and yet causally determine or bring it about that P go right with respect to A — i.e., to create creatures capable of moral good, God must create creatures capable of moral evil.

It is not the result of the free will of creatures, as is normally the case with the begetting of a human person, but the result of God's own Will, His free decision to become one of us.

Our task must be to free from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty.»

What is created at that moment is a single new creature — a human person — with the capacity to become conscious and free «in the image and likeness of God».

Anyway, there's something truly free there, something that isn't the creature of an unhappy childhood or a frustrated hunger — it's spirit, nous, Geist — something that can convert the countervailing tempests of physiological urges into the elations of reason set free.

Of his own free will He walks naked and alone into the heart of the storm as broken and twisted creatures wreak upon his innocent humanity the damage that mirrors the broken image of God in their own soulOf his own free will He walks naked and alone into the heart of the storm as broken and twisted creatures wreak upon his innocent humanity the damage that mirrors the broken image of God in their own soulof the storm as broken and twisted creatures wreak upon his innocent humanity the damage that mirrors the broken image of God in their own soulof God in their own souls.

What we call salvation or justification is given to man, the creature and sinner, only through the free and undeserved grace of God, that is through God's free self - revelation in Jesus, the crucified and the risen Christ.

Is it right for a man to be as care - free as a bird, and even to surpass these creatures in unconcern, since they fly hither and thither in search of food?

As mentioned before, the specialness will be only partially a function of God's doing; the creature must actualize God's aim for it to a sufficient degree, so the specialness will also be partly a function of the creature's free response.47

He is thus against natural law theory but for a DCT in which God, by creating rational creatures, is bound to make their highest end a relationship with the divine persons, but free to pursue that end via any number of routes.

Regarding the latter, classical theologians typically limit self - determining (free) creatures on this earth to humans (Or perhaps also to certain higher animals), 1 while process theologians typically would affirm that creative self - determination is characteristic of all beings.

Classical theologians typically limit self - determining (free) creatures on this earth to humans (or perhaps also to certain higher animals), while process theologians typically would affirm that creative self - determination is characteristic of all beings.

Much of what we see in our collective lives is the sinful and savage excesses of corrupt creatures, the diverse and perverse choices of free human agents.

As it strips political leaders and activists of vanity and illusion, it should also free them to wield power under God and in the service of God's creatures.

There is no other world that God might have created, not because he is bound by necessity, but because he is infinitely free, and so nothing can hinder him from expressing his essential and infinite goodness perfectly, in and through the freedom of creatures created to be the fellows of his eternal Son.

That God is the supremely and enduringly loving one is never in doubt; but that God's love is fulfilled and returned is, in some degree, dependent on the free decision of the creatures.

Christians believe that the Earth and all its creatures are good and that people are free to use the resources of the Earth.

Not a few men today experience their dilemma as that of creatures who were born to be free but are everywhere in chains.

Yet God is the One who values and uses, because God incorporates into the divine life which is everlasting the good that takes place in the historical sequence; and God overrules or uses for good that which comes from the «vain imagination of foolish men» in their sin and defection — and, we may add, from anything else that is evil or wrong thanks to the free decisions made by the creatures in their divinely granted capacity to choose among relevant possibilities.

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.

Love, then, as we have observed previously, appears to be an «attractive» power, drawing God's creatures godward of their own free will.

Many can now understand such judgements as that of Loren Eiseley, who did not speak of human difference from other creatures in the glowing terms of the Enlightenment: how we are «rational,» capable of «free will», and so on.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.»

i am sorry J.W but i don't believe there is a god of any kind... if there was a god, why would such a so called all powerful being allow for the treatment of its creation by its creation... the argument of free will is an old and tired one... if the existence was true and the laws put in place to honor such a creature were equally upheld by god then i would have been punished a long long time ago and so would have the majority of people... believer or not!

The uniquely Judaeo - Christian approach is that evil is secondary to goodness, emerging from the abuse of goodness by free creatures.

Eternal hell only exists on the condition that some of God's free creatures reject God's love and grace and persist in doing so.

My interest in Barth as moral theologian suggests to me that his interpretation of the Reformed tradition (as equally concerned with God's glory and the free action of creatures) was deeply important in his theological growth.

In An American Childhood (1987), Dillard explores primarily her own life, and the social and historical world she recollects is largely free of nature's tooth and claw; fewer creatures sputter into flame.

Yes, I know, the «gift» of living forever (with the brutal supernatural creature) is «free» (as long as you believe in and worship the brutal supernatural creature).

He is what He is, in His own integrity, the everlasting source of all being and good, present in every moment of the world's life, determining it as fully as it can be determined in the light of the fact that out of His love He has set His creatures free, and will not destroy their freedom.

Griffin & Sherburne, New York: The Free Press, 1978, 31)(2) «This function of creatures, that they constitute the shifting character of creativity, is here termed the «objective immortality» of actual entities.

Man, the free creature of God, who misuses his freedom, must know God's forgiveness.

Because man is a free creature there are no limits to the purity of brotherhood he may reach; but because of man's freedom his brotherhood is never safe from corruption on each new level of achievement.

Is it the kind of power that must be in absolute control of every detail, OR is it the kind of the power that is so wise and powerful, that it can truly give away power to free creatures?

[6] The primacy of Christ in creation emerges not simply from his being the beginning and end of the cosmos, but also from his being the saviour and justification of this cosmos of intellectual creatures free to give themselves to the creator.

The catechism tells us that «to prepare a body for [His Son, God] wanted the free cooperation of a creature.

To this, quoting Vatican I and the books of Wisdom and Hebrews, the same text adds, «For all things are open and laid bare to his eyes, even those which are yet to come into existence through the free action of creatures.»

It was, as a matter of fact, the impact of the Judaeo - Christian tradition on Western civilization that is chiefly responsible for the awareness so prevalent among us today that history presses forward toward novel achievements, that the future is open and full of promise, that man is a free creature whose own decisions and deeds enter into the shaping of tomorrow's world.

Since He must of logical necessity thus love and will himself, He can not be called «free» ad intra, with the freedom of contrarieties that characterizes finite creatures.

Man also enjoys an internal awareness of his own existence and of the existence of his fellow creatures as finite - free parts of an infinite and encompassing whole.