Sentences with phrase «order given to the world»

The Beatified Scientist An important part of combating the myth of the opposition of faith and science is a proper historical appreciation of the irreplaceable contribution of men of faith to the rise of science and its great leaps: scientists who rigorously studied the natural world precisely because it is God's own order given to the world that makes it rational and worthy of investigation.

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Knight gave the Onitsuka representative $ 50 for a small order of samples and left to finish his world tour.

Any bookstore can also order it if you give them the full title: «Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World» — there are more than 60 Guerrilla Marketing books that cover other aspects of business and have nothing to do with what we've been talking about.

Many sales program tactics and strategies are so convoluted in their approach that they don't work in the real world and end up extending and complicating sales cycles and your ability to get the prospect to give you a purchase order.

@Sum Dude Before you give orders to others, why don't you tell everyone what it is that you do to make this world a better place.

I do believe we were placed on this life on this world of both good and evil in order to know first hand what goodness and happiness really is since how can you know what happiness is without also experiencing misery, or knowing what sweet is without knowing the bitter, and ultimately, hopefully we would choose through our own free will to follow the teachings God has given us.

A justified process - rooted philosophical appreciation of social canons can be taught through a pedagogical strategy that begins with their critique, that expunges them from the natural given furnishings of the immediately real in order to rediscover them as the inherited cultural accretions by which we transform the immediately real into a world of enduring meanings and human significance.

Whatever Obama's personal beliefs are, I give him credit for giving the order to shoot the worlds most dangerous Muslim (OBL) in the head.

In reference to any given society the world of actual entities is to be conceived as forming a background in layers of social order, the defining characteristic becoming wider and more general as we widen the background.

Thus the traditional conception of deity, which we have received from our past, puts its main stress on divine absoluteness or aseity; on divine causative agency as the explanation of everything that occurs whether by direct divine willing or by indirect divine permission with respect to evil done in the world; on divine self - containedness and hence lack of necessary relationship with anything else; on divine impassability, which makes any suffering impossible for God; and on divine moral perfection, with the giving of laws in accordance with which everything should be ordered.

He even denies that religious experience provides adequate warrant for affirming the actuality of God, since «the Eastern Asiatic concept of an impersonal order to which the world conforms» is given equal status with other doctrines.

Lem me see here, according to your holy book your God personally ordered more infant killings than all American abortion doctors combined, ordered the annihilation of half a dozen civilizations, routinely taunted and tortured humanity, introduced evil into the world then blamed the things he created for it (even though he's supposed to be omniscient and omnipotent), then abandoned humanity for at least a couple thousand years while making plans to come back and slaughter 2/3 of Earth's inhabitants so that he can judge them and throw most of them into a torturous hell for all of eternity... for not being able to overcome the nature your book says he gave them... Just so he can have non-free will - having cloud gnomes sing his praises for eternity.

We labour when we give what we have and are in order to make the given world better and more meaningful for us.

I would much rather rely on science to explain the world; probability to explain random events, and natural laws to give me comfort that, whatever happens, there is an explainable order behind it.

It is the primordial order that gives to the world whatever mutual support can be found there....

These characters and their stories contribute to the stream of meaning that gives order to our world and that poses the possibility of a new, more adequate world.

But those who do not accept the to - some - degree given character of our political communities, who want to reverse McWilliams» order and «start the world anew» on the basis of a creedal community, and who ultimately seek to unify the world into such, must divide all mankind into two groups, of which one group will absorb the other.

«The subsequent course of nature, teaches, that God, indeed, gave motion to matter; but that, in the beginning, he so guided the various motion of the parts of it, as to contrive them into the world he design'd they should compose; and establish'd those rules of motion, and that order amongst things corporeal, which we call the laws of nature.

This is clear in Whitehead's description of the natural social order: «In reference to any given society, the world of actual entities is to he conceived as forming a background in layers of social order, the defining characteristics become wider and more general as we widen the background» (PR 98 / 150).

As for me, I can't believe in an human - like being that designed and jump - started the universe 13.8 billion years ago and set aside a planet for His special favorite creations, so He'd have someone to keep Him company and sing songs praising Him, then gave Bronze Age hermits a book of His orders to mankind that includes «thou shalt not round thy head nor cut thy beard» on penalty of eternal suffering... just CA N'T, any more than I can force myself to believe the world rests on the back of giant turtle.

The system is «designed to allow Israel to control every aspect of Palestinian life in the occupied territories while lowering Israel's military profile in order to give the impression to the outside world that what Palestinians refer to as «occupation» is merely proper administration, and that Israel has a «duty» to defend itself and the status quo, Halper says.

unless God is given I do not see how he could be inferred, for the foundation of inference beyond immediacy seems to me necessarily the reality of God as the ground of world order.

Indeed, on the basis of Matthew 25, ordering our attention and overcoming our addiction to distraction has everything to do with our ability to recognize Christ in one another and to learn what it means to be the body of Christ, a people formed by habits of good attention, giving and exchanging the gifts of attention in a world of distraction.

In Science and the Modern World God in this role is described as providing an antecedent, ordering limitation upon values prior to any given concrescence and is referred to as the principle of limitation.

When this happens, the aggressively masculine stance and the dislike of women's having their part and place in the affairs of the world — and in religious communities, the refusal to give women a full share in the communities» life and in their ordained ministry — are taken to be supported by the cosmic order and hence given a divine force in human affairs.

And now, Jesus told them, the bread God wants to give them is one who is come down out of heaven in order to give life to the world.

And third, we give thanks not in order that God will know that we are thankful but precisely in order to make ourselves thankful: to help ourselves realize not only how lucky we are in comparison to so many others (which is part of it), but how fortunate we are just to be in this world; to help us appreciate the many blessings which each and every one of us enjoys; to rekindle in us the sense of wonder and awe and gratitude in response to all that we so often and so cavalierly take for granted.

In doing this, we have also seen how one of the consequences of authentic preaching is a determination, established in the hearts and minds and wills of those who have assisted at worship, to give themselves more fully to the service of God — as «co-creators», in Whitehead's fine word, with God in the great work of «amorization», establishing in this world (so far as a finite order will permit it) a society marked by caring, justice, responsibility, interest in others, and relief from oppression, devoted to everything positive which promotes the fullest actualization of human possibility.

By rational consciousness is meant reflective consciousness insofar as the symbolization by which it is ordered conforms to the world as given in unreflective consciousness rather than in the autonomous activity of the unconscious.

Unless we devise a world order that gives continuing attention to the health of the Earth, all other achievements will amount to little.

The great and familiar verse John 3:16 declares the order of things in the mind of God to be the same: «For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son.»

The scripture I just love is Matthew 11 where Jesus gives this extraordinary invitation to a new existence, a new world order, a new creation.

You atheists know who you are, so don't argue about it, go talk with the Humanist Atheists, you don't have to give up atheism, but you can not keep writing off the world's religions because they are quite frankly the most important deciding factors in whether this world will survive much longer, whether there will be chaos in the world or order.

It may be that it was from a setting of this kind that John took over the custom of the baptismal bath, in order of course to give it a new meaning, one relating to the coming world transformation.

By turning to the Dominicans, I thought, critics could embrace all the salutary points Dreher had made about the need to withdraw from the world in order to form Christian communities, while also giving greater emphasis to the dominical command to make missionary disciples of all nations.

In life as it is given to us to live, there seem to be permanent conditions which stand against the order of mutuality so that this world yearns for a good which in its very nature it can not embody.

All of this is to say that the rapidity and enormity of changes humanly caused make it imperative for us to give close attention to the question of «alternative futures» in order that we may have the best possible prospects of moving toward a tomorrow in which human beings can at least survive, and, hopefully, live in a peaceful, prosperous, joyful world.

It was this appreciation of the church, as a God - given community and therefore a central aspect of the Christian Gospel, which caused the Oxford Conference to appoint a committee to explore, with the Faith and Order Movement, the possibility of forming a World Council of Churches.

J.H.Nichols wrote, «The faith and order movement has sometimes tended to proceed as if one could deal with the abstract essence of the one Church, could argue about and perhaps determine the true nature, without what it does».29 However, the Lund conference gave consideration to the world mission of the church and its relation to unity.

Here and there it may be, we can catch a glimpse of the wonderful order in nature, the regularity of the stars, scattered over the wide spaces of the universe yet obedient to one law; the order to be found even in the microscopic world, as also within visible things concerning which science has given such amazing information in recent years; the order in the construction of a flower or of an animal, from the flea to the whale, a noteworthy obedience to law even in the life of man.

Two things: he infallibly preserves each successive cosmic and subcosmic event in his perpetual memory, thereby rendering it immortal; and he gives order and guidance through inspiration to the creatures in the next phase of the creative Process.57 Hartshorne adopts the Whiteheadian view that God may really rule the world but that he does so chiefly by persuasion.

It is based on the conviction that the Christian scriptures give a unified, consistent account of the nature and destiny of humanity and cosmos, that is at once existentially true (it speaks to our subjective need for order and meaning in our personal existence) and cosmologically true (it gives a true and adequate picture of the way our world objectively is and will be).

I am to go to church to fellowship with my brothers and sisters in Christ and regain strength and knowledge in order to go back out into the world to win more souls, but I will challenge ANYONE brother or sister in Christ who does not give God the credit instead of themselves.

More importantly, if the Church (or, for that matter, individual Christians) gives up the transcendent core of the tradition in order to placate this or that alleged spirit of the times, what is given up is the most precious truth that has been entrusted to the Church's care — the truth about the redemption of men through God's coming into the world in Christ.

Science presumes an intelligible underlying order; and also, given that the human mind is directly related to the natural order and thus to the whole of the cosmos, this relatedness means that the world can not be accidental.

When the religious thought of the ancient world from Mesopotamia to Palestine, and from Palestine to Egypt, required terms to express that ultimate unity of direction in the universe, upon which all order depends, and which gives meaning to importance, they could find no better way to express themselves than by borrowing the characteristics of the touchy, vain, imperious tyrants who ruled the empires of the world.

If we can avoid the dangers of environmental devastation or global warfare brought about by the megalomaniacal pursuit of technological power, and the almost equally dreary prospect of a world of persons controlled by behavioral engineers in the name of technological rationality, we may move into a future in which the pursuit of power and rational order gives way to the cultivation of «intensities of experience.»

Whitehead in his turn, as Lewis Ford has pointed out, claimed that anything complex needs an explanation in a decision somewhere, and even the metaphysical structures of the world are the result of the divine primordial act giving order to the otherwise chaotic eternal objects (cf. 2).

Other priority demands supported by CADTM are: the expropriation of the wealth kept in the North by the rich of the South in order that it be given back to the people of the Third World; wealth tax; tax on financial transactions; rejection of the MAI and its clones; the right of peripheral countries to protectionism.

One can in this general way regard the implicate order as a further development of what is already present in Spinoza, as well as in Heraclitus, Cusano, Leibniz, Whitehead and others, a development that is capable of making full contact with modern science, and yet opens up a way to assimilate common experience and general philosophical reflections on this experience, to give a single, whole, unfragmented world view.