Sentences with phrase «on divine omnipotence»

The monarchial model of God as King was developed systematically, both in Jewish thought (God as Lord and King of the Universe), in medieval Christian thought (with its emphasis on divine omnipotence) and in the Reformation (especially in Calvin's insistence on God's sovereignty).

In other words, we shall attempt to show that if one desires to pick between process theism and a coherent form of classical theism, one must do so on grounds other than the alleged adequacy or inadequacy of their respective views on divine omnipotence.

It should not be surprising, accordingly, that one of the chief areas of contention between these rival theisms centers on divine omnipotence.

Not exact matches

Nearly half a century on, in his wittily entitled Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes (1984), Hartshorne reviewed two meanings of «all - powerful»: the traditional, of course — the (benevolent) tyrant ideal of absolute, all determining, irresistible power18 — and what he previously had identified as the greatest possible power in a universe of multiple centers of power: «The only livable doctrine of divine power is that it influences all that happens but determines nothing in its concrete particularity.»

We may understand why the creation of the cosmos already involves an act of self - humbling on God's part if we reflect briefly upon the theological notion of divine omnipotence.

The Basingers believe «that most influential classical theists — e.g., Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin — have affirmed I - omnipotence»; they go on to say that «unfortunately, Plantinga, himself, has not explicitly acknowledged the fact that his analysis of the relation between divine sovereignty and human freedom is basically an attack upon, not a defense of, the view of omnipotence that most classical theists seem to hold.»

On the contrary, black theology has consistently and explicitly rejected such a conception of divine omnipotence.

On the other hand, the enormity of suffering by creatures on this earth, and perhaps especially the human suffering of the present century, makes it difficult for us to return to any concept of divine omnipotence in which God stands silently and apathetically beyond the world's evolutionary and historical struggles, able but unwilling to intervenOn the other hand, the enormity of suffering by creatures on this earth, and perhaps especially the human suffering of the present century, makes it difficult for us to return to any concept of divine omnipotence in which God stands silently and apathetically beyond the world's evolutionary and historical struggles, able but unwilling to intervenon this earth, and perhaps especially the human suffering of the present century, makes it difficult for us to return to any concept of divine omnipotence in which God stands silently and apathetically beyond the world's evolutionary and historical struggles, able but unwilling to intervene.

Origen went on to argue that divine omnipotence had no meaning for him unless everything that existed subsisted in some way in the divine.