Sentences with phrase «order of being»

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The evolution of man is built into the order and development of the universe as its purpose, for with man creation passes to a higher order of being.

Human beings and the remainder of things are treated as belonging to radically different orders of being.

Those of this order of universe creatures who remained loyal to Christ have been working consistently with the angelic and other higher orders of beings for the advancement of man into the ages of light and life.

He further contends that such a God is very doubtfully God at all, since He is of the same order of being as we are and therefore not the Creator who is radically other than the creation.

The translation then becomes, to put it rather clumsily, «The Word was in the same class as God, belonged to the same order of being as God».

Theirs is not a three - dimensional block universe but rather a layered cosmos containing multiple orders of being.

Instead of being something arbitrary, which it was even in the thought of Aquinas, it becomes central to the fulfilment of the plan of God in a sinful world: this is not just a moral redemption but «a work in the dynamic order of being itself», a work in the ontological order, by which He must restore and heal all the damage that has afflicted our being.

But they do not belong to metaphysically different orders of being.

The Law, still a continuity and one economy in a higher order of being, is still a mutual ministry of man to the Earth he inherits, and men to each other with God.

The soul is spiritual, that is it exists in the same personal order of being as God himself, albeit in a participated and contingent manner.

Therefore, we can legitimately pose the question: what if these law - governed principles are simply two aspects of one Unity - Law that holds them in distinction in the order of being but have a dynamic unity of purpose and end in the person of Christ?

If matter and spirit are only the one order of being and of nature, then you can insist that the «affection» of loving is just one linked and commingling experience of joy and pleasure.

Soul and body, therefore, are correlative but distinctive orders of being within the one entity that is Man.

Scotus teaches, by contrast, that there is only one order of being.

We must not attribute to God our limitations, but we must guard equally against supposing he is of some other — and if impersonal, some lower — order of being.

While he accused the order of being more interested in its previous «good name», the Daughters of Charity later insisted their apology was «unqualified and unequivocal».

I partucularly like A.E. Knoch's insight on the order of being made alive in Christ:

The order of all is implicit in holomovement.

The ultimate reality, instead of being, as in Jewish apocalyptic, figured as the last term in the historical series, is conceived as an eternal order of being, of which the phenomenal order in history is the shadow or symbol.

Its hopes, however, are not placed in nature as created, but rather in the mind's capacity to construct models that will unlock the powers trapped within the given order of beings, so as to release their infinite possibilities and make them subservient to our needs and aspirations.

In the order of being, however, we must recognize that he was creator of heaven and earth before he manifested himself in Jesus Christ.

The world is not an order of beings manifesting God's goodness; it is rather an order of inert matter in motion, available for the human will and intellect to master and manipulate.

In communion of personhood with the Creator, the Christian, raised and liberated by God's grace, transcends the world without ceasing to be part of it, still gratefully embedded within the goodness of its created order of beings.

The communication to created nature of what we call the «supernatural» is not something extraneous, therefore, it is the communication of the supreme order of being, by which we mean sheer reality.

To many Hindus «divinity» is supreme holiness or goodness not another order of being.

From the moment of the «Big Bang» through to the intercession for us of Christ and his saints, we are in the presence of one continuous ministry, in which we create or destroy in the order of being - of reality - for ourselves and upon our brothers and sisters.

There is, perhaps, in the order of being such an obligation, but it is certainly not apparent to all ordinarily rational people.

Whitehead's philosophy is dedicated to showing that there is only one order of being.

It is in God, who is beyond our order of being and limitation but to whose image alone we are fashioned, and in whose order of joy alone we find our own bliss.

The platonists and idealists turned to reason and the human spirit to find a higher order of being which transcends space, time and matter.

On the order of being.

«For what is universal love if not the ordering of all being in such a way that it can enter most fully into the existence of every particular thing?»

It is in the light of this distinction between freedom and determinism that we can reassess the above examples of characteristically human and characteristically animal behaviour to determine whether animals have these two orders of being within their individual identities.

We see before us one particular order of Being and a structure to nature we can probe rationally.

When I first began reading Tolkien I thought, «Here is a new order of beings, that of the hobbits.»