Sentences with phrase «philosophical ideas of god»

I used this worksheet to introduce my Year 12s to the difference between religious and philosophical ideas of God - divided my class into two groups and after they'd each done their task got them to discuss the differences in how they described God.

He finds all philosophical ideas of God resistant to the Biblical understanding of a God who acts selectively in history.

Not exact matches

Almost every idea of God offered by philosophers and theologians was an exception to the respective philosophical systems and not their primary exemplification — here I agree with Hartshorne.

It is easier to defend the idea that the bible is not the word of god, but simply a history of human thought and just as we discard old scientific ideas when we have new information, we discard old philosophical ideas.

His warning in Science and the Modern World that metaphysics could not go far toward presenting an idea of God available for religion is less obviously relevant to the later formulations of the philosophical doctrine.

Holding to evolution as the origin of the world and all that is therein makes good philosophical sense if and only if you reject the idea of a God... or even of gods.

«2 Therefore, philosophy of religion must balance itself between the extremes of a philosophy that cuts itself off from religious experience and a religious stance that segregates itself from philosophical reflection.3 The search for a philosophy of religion is a search for total world - view in which the idea of God encountered in human history is thoroughly integrated.

Toward this end, Swain counsels against Barth's rejection of the «analogy of being,» the idea that we can know truths about God beginning from the philosophical consideration of creation.

The idea of an eternal people freed Jews from the theological and philosophical problem of an eternal God.

There is also continuity in the correspondence between the qualifiers used for God in both [D] and [E]: «unmoved mover» in 342.17 -LRB-[El) recovers, in a formulation that is peculiar to some philosophical systems, the general idea of staticity in God (346.38, in [D]-RRB-, whereas «eminently real» (342.18 - 19, in [E]-RRB- is identical to «eminent reality» (346.38, In [D]-RRB-.

John wishes to emphasize that the Word of God had «descended» from the realm of the Spirit and had become no longer a mental image, no longer a philosophical idea, but a human being in history.

Now please explain why the only way out of solipsism (a philosophical idea, not a fact) is to accept that god exists and is good.

Gods will is for us humans today to evolved to a level of conciousness that will prepare us for the challenges of our future survival, Scientists now predicts of hardships in the future due to over population and changes to the natural environment.and that is happening now with activists through out the world are reminding us of protecting nature.That is why we need a phsychological revolution to hasten the evolution of consciousness that will address the problems.Ideological and philosophical enlightenment had the past great minds to develop ideas and belief because God sent them to reality in their times.Abraham, Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, and many other religious leaders to teach humanity the doctrines that God willed to be appropriate and applicable in those periods of their existence, Also great philosophers in another dimension of social involvement were born to interprete and connect philosophically as the second element of our conscience, Kant, Marx and countless of them also were born.To complete the triangular structure or dimension of our conscience is knowledge.

But this is true of the reflective theological ideas of God as well as philosophical ones.

«2 The larger issue raised by Kaplan's transnaturalism and Whiteheadian process theology is the coherence of the idea of a non-absolute God, within the framework of religious naturalism, as a theological and philosophical concept.

She went on to imbibe (and translate into English) Ludwig Feuerbach's philosophical view that the idea of God is nothing but the projection of true humanity.

It was fascinating, and I think important, to see the development over the centuries of the philosophical rift which eventually grew between science and religion, as a result of which many scientists (although by no means all) abandoned any idea of a Creator God.

What is striking is that reflection coming out of life experience and Biblical study in communities that have taken for granted the reality of God converge so far with the ideas of God that come from those who have wrestled with, and proposed alternatives to, the dominant philosophical views.

= > you talk of the God of Abraham as if he is a philosophical idea like the Greek notion of Areté.

The underlying philosophical position of traditional theology and its difference from the presuppositions of process thought can perhaps best be illustrated when we analyze the meaning of «perfect» and see its application to the Christian idea of God.

The Universe, known and unknown, is possibly not the most used definition of God, at least in the western world... but it is the Pantheistic version that jives so much more with science and is not a misappropriation of the smaller definitions of God, merely an unfamiliar definition to those with less knowledge of various more advanced religious and philosophic thought, within and outside those religions... The idea of Pantheism also thoughtfully considers why there is, rather than ridiculing, such a wide range of philosophical and ritual beliefs from a scientific perspective... without having to classify large groups of people, as senseless idiots from one end or destined for hell from the other.

The classical Christian idea of an aloof, immutable, independent God, representing simplicity and rest, he argues, has much more in common with certain philosophical abstractions inherited from the Greeks.

Our Western Christian thinking is qualified in its deepest philosophical and methodological ideas by a personalistic idea of God.

Seventhly, the Uganda people and king Mwanga feared the wrath of God as they had an animistic philosophical idea of wrath from God if they displeased their pagan and tribal gods.

For a book whose title sounds like an affirmation of faith but whose story is about an atheist refuting the existence of God, reading it is a spiritual experience... Many of the positive reviews laud the wit and entertainment Goldstein provides, but honestly, the breadth and depth of ideas covered require close and thoughtful reading... This novel can be read on a few different levels: a romance, a mystery, an intellectual thriller or a philosophical / religious treatise.