Sentences with phrase «order of nature»

It does not follow the natural order of nature.

Why, then, this particular order of nature and no other?

We should all take a cue from the inherent order of nature when decorating our homes.

There is law of birth, growth, and decline, the whole order of nature from the ultimate particles to the body of man is a relativity built upon finality and purposiveness.

«Nature miracles» are events which appear to contradict the established order of nature, such as the stilling of a storm at sea.

The value of non-Christian perspectives of the created order of nature.

Man is part of the causal order of nature on his planet.

It can do this only if it functions at the outset of every new occasion to give it an aim toward that kind of self - actualization which is compatible with the larger orders of nature.

In this context he defines the sin of contraception as to «subordinate the primary purpose potential of the sexual function and organs to secondary purposes of the sexual act, this subordinationunderstood of a physical ordering of nature»; «the primary end intrinsic to the physical nature of the act [may not be] subordinated to other purposes».

To grasp man's simultaneous universality and particularity, his transcendence and his immanence, the «right ordering of his nature and the right ordering of his community», a «sound science of man himself» must become the «keystone of a university education».

To recognize this «given - ness» does not mean to accept the political or economic status quo, as if it reflected presumed orders of nature; it is rather to acknowledge that limits in knowing, as elsewhere, accompany our (common) existence as human beings.

«Causality has an unlimited reign in the world of It» and is «of fundamental importance for the scientific ordering of nature.»

It is also important to remember that most miracle stories come from a pre-scientific age, in which there was no conception of a uniform order of nature.

The price of technical mastery is knowledge of natural laws and action in disciplined subordination to the intelligible orders of nature.

But even our commonest human experience tells us that the things which most pervade our experience — the love of those about us, the deepest hopes which lure us, the all - embracing order of nature — these just because they are ever present can remain mysteriously hidden, even forgotten.

The aesthetic order of nature suggested by new physics, process theology, ecology, and Buddhist philosophy presents a radical shift from the currently dominant «logical order» of mainline Christianity and Western rational thought.

Vast numbers of people think that the fact of a relatively settled order of nature, along with the scientific interpretation of change and the description of the inner dynamics of human personality (and much else as well), has ruled out once and for all genuine novelty and made change nothing more than the reshuffling of bits of matter - in - motion.

Man is ontologically no more or less real than any other kind of complex, and human orders are continuous with other orders of nature.

The hierarchical ordering of nature assures us that the world will not be reduced to sheer chaos every time there is a small breakdown at one level.

Placher's Sam, one might suggest, died of inexorable physiological causes written into the impersonal ordering of nature, ultimately by the Deity.

Far from believing in a fixed order of nature, the people conceived the only fixity and dependability to consist in a world of magic, for the operation of some part of which they possessed the secret.

That the category of the covenant implies the order of grace and redemption and not some mythical order of nature is clear from the Scriptures.

But even the little that is known about the natural history of Africa argues that to exchange the wide spectrum of 20 to 30 hoofed animals, living in delicate adjustment to their habitat, for the narrowed spectrum of three ungulates exotic to Africa — cattle, sheep and goats — is to throw away a bountiful resource and a marvelous ordering of nature.

Grasping the purpose of the whole order of nature is not different in character from grasping the purpose of a single intelligent human act, but it is more of an adventure.

Even if this identification were permissible, a problem of assimilating the Primordial Nature to the general order of nature would remain.

From this Stoeger argues that «special divine action» is really a matter of the «higher laws of nature» as they actually function, rather than as we understand them, subsuming, modifying and marshalling the «lower orders of nature»; those of physics, chemistry and biology.

There is no single memorial statue for the 200 thousand Korean women who died for the cause of the so - called justice and peace of the world.2 It is fair and essential to remember that many Christians supported these historical sins of imperialism, these and other cruelties by which imperialistic colonialism systematically destroyed the created order of nature, men, and women in the Korean peninsula.

Indeed, the very order of nature, like the radiance of our souls, reveals the light of divine reason in us all.

Yet another reason is that your morals might interfere with the natural order of nature — quite unscientific!

At its best, science is a human enterprise with a superhuman aim: the discovery of regularities in the order of nature, and the discerning of the consequences of those regularities.

In the final section of «The Order of Nature,» Whitehead begins thus:

The artist, who dedicates himself to beauty, «teaches us that man can not be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.

But the new understanding of nature did not, any better than the old, explain the order of nature.

«My point is that any summary conclusion jumping from our conviction of the existence of such an order of nature to the easy assumption that there is an ultimate reality which, in some unexplained way, is to be appealed to for the removal of the perplexity, constitutes the great refusal of rationality to assert its rights.»

The proof for the existence of God is found in the Qur» an through meditation on the beauty and order of nature.

There were historical references to ideas of God and one passage dealing with the appeal to God on the part of thinkers who required him for the solution of the problem of the order of nature.