Whitehead speaks of God in two ways: in the first (primordial) he is the conceptual realization of what might be; he is the structure of possibilities; he is the eternal
orderer of the world.
It is God as the eternal
orderer of the world.
Not exact matches
Impressed by Foster's commitment, several large
orderers have abandoned the traditional mode
of letting several vendors carve one another up on price, and already have granted Elyria sole - supplier status.
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
The
orderer is no longer the deus ex machina
of the deists, which Darwin rightly rejected.
We can say with Hartshorne, «The only positive explanation
of order is the existence
of an
orderer» (Hartshorne 1984, 71).
Once freedom anywhere is granted, an
orderer is explicable as supreme or divine freedom inspiring (Plato «persuading») all lesser freedoms to feel the attraction
of the cosmic plan envisaged by the (eminent but not the only) Decider.
That is, they were confident that the sort
of order displayed in the world required a creator and
orderer.
In the ecological model there is constant tension between chaos and order since order is neither the outcome
of one all - powerful
orderer nor
of deterministic necessity.
Hartshorne (1984a) has said «the only positive explanation
of order is the existence
of an
orderer» (p. 71).
Ever heard
of orderer's regret at a restaurant?