This essentially metaphysical
order of the world which humans look for is perceived and understood largely through concrete, accessible public symbols.
Since such disclosure is made through the
experienced order of the world, it follows that the divine Word is a theological interpretation of the experience of order.
Despite these substantial issues, the common task of the systems approach and process metaphysics is that of «describing the
present order of the world in terms of principles which are the special exemplification of the most general» (MN 124).
Though the becoming of a world takes place through us, our
social ordering of the world rests, in its turn, on the priority of the meeting with existing being, and this meeting is not our work.
Similarly he may account for the present state and
order of the world by speaking of a primeval war between the gods.
Heeding the words of Paul — «in Christ there is neither bond nor free, Jew nor Greek, male nor female» — generation upon generation, impeded often by formidable circumstances, succeeded in strengthening in men's minds the significance of the
divine order of the world and, within that order, of the individual.
And the religious response to this suspicion is in each case the same: the formulation, by means of symbols, of an image of such a
genuine order of the world which will account for, even celebrate, the perceived ambiguities, puzzles and paradoxes of human experience.
From the natural
order of the world comes its dependability, without which there would be no science, no ordered control of physical forces or events, none of the security which comes from knowing that the physical world is at least in large measure calculable.
suasion,» whose «power is the worship he inspires» (Whitehead), that is, flows from the intrinsic appeal of his infinitely sensitive and tolerant relativity, by which all things are kept moving in orderly togetherness, we may find help in facing our task of today, the task of contributing to the democratic self -
ordering of a world whose members not even the supreme orderer reduces to mere subjects with the sole function of obedience.59
In the view of Bohm (1973, 1977, 1980, 1985a, 1985b), science as we know it describes the objective aspect of things — the external aspect or what he calls the
explicate order of the world.
«Importance,» then, is part of the mundane repetitious world of inorganic or organic objects, as much as it is part of higher levels of process, and describes the
generic ordering of that world.
These four factors — the law -
abiding order of the world, the progressive, evolutionary nature of the world, the human power to choose and to decide, and the human loves and loyalties that create homes and friendships — account for all the tragedy and suffering on earth.
Therefore, we identify God with the
creative order of the world, a process which transforms human beings, brings values from a potential to an actual state, and works to overcome evil with good.
Eating fruits and vegetables that are in season puts us in harmony with the natural
order of the world around us, and nourishes our bodies in the best way possible.
Hong Hao's artistic creations focus on the conflicts and resonance between the
overarching order of the world and the everyday life of the individual, and engage in a graphical deconstruction of social systems in order to observe, establish and finally conceal the artist's self - awareness.
Shonibare's gods are upset that
traditional order of the world has been turned upside down and that the transcendent truths, on which the history of mankind is based, are disappearing.
The 1990s saw major shifts in the economic and
political order of the world, and many people have responded by turning away from larger issues and concentrating on smaller and more intimate areas of life, in essence, reexamining the ground under their own feet.
For architecture to be truly constructed, the materials must be used with profound respect for their essence and possibilities; only thus can «cosmic economy» be achieved... in agreement with the
profound order of the world; only then can [it] have that authority that so astounds us in the great works of the past.
People tend towards categorization and try to figure out where we fit in the
pecking order of the world, what the different camps are in, for example, the «adoption triad.»
But Hellenistic Christianity assumed a nondialectical form: the world became the arena of sanctification, redemption now takes place without any effect upon the
actual order of the world, and consequently ethics is dissociated from redemption.
Familiar words about God in history, and a
moral order of the world, were becoming concrete for me as I struggled to come to terms with economic determinism, both as theory and as an increasingly evident and momentous fact.
Cosmology is the attempt to describe the
present order of the world in terms of principles which are special exemplifications of the most general, i.e., metaphysical, principles.
We need to see the truth of God's love in
the order of the world, and we need to demonstrate that truth, which is another name for charity.
Someone like Camus, in The Rebel, would say that one is basically innocent in that no matter how good he is toward others and sincere toward himself he still must die, and that
the order of the world is therefore unjust.
Each only displays how a more or less adequate account of
the order of the world points to some principle of order.
There is a deep human intuition that
the order of the world requires for its explanation some principle of order that can not entirely be attributed to the entities that constitute the world.
Jesus Christ told us what
the order of this world is like: «You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them» (Matthew 20:25).
(John 1:1 - 3) Thus
the order of the world, which we discover in science, reveals the very Mind of God.
My point now is that the actual
order of the world is leading to unparalleled catastrophes.
Whitehead stresses that the process of concrescence generates
the order of the world as the entropy - laden and disjunctive many attain unity in the determinate form of the completed occasion.