Sentences with phrase «preexistence of»

Time is incompatible with the preexistence of the future, and the preexistence of the future is what Capek thinks the determinist is committed to.

As for the preexistence of Christ, it is significant that St. Paul speaks of it most emphatically at the point where he is not speaking of it directly — viz., when he is speaking about the cross, in Rom.

Here we come upon the doctrine which is known as the doctrine of the preexistence of the Word, or the pre-existence of the Son.

Nor, contra Jenson, is the divine Logos reducible to the preexistence of Jesus in the Father's eternal predestination.

And in accepting that inevitable FACT, proved by the findings of science, of the existence of that GREAT FIRST CAUSE, YOU HAVE ACCEPTED THE FACT of the existence and preexistence of the Creator - GOD!

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It is easy enough to deal with the doctrine of Christ's preexistence and the legend of the Virgin birth in this way.

The use of the term «soul» carries no connotation in Whitehead of preexistence or of life after death.

Reflection upon the resurrection led to the idea of pre-existence, and reflection upon the preexistence led to the gradual supernaturalizing of Jesus» whole career.

This kind of preexistence could be very real to the Hebrew - Jewish mind.

We will now bestow upon the merman a human consciousness and suppose that the fact of his being a merman indicates a human preexistence in the consequences of which his life is entangled.

If we split the thought up into a reckoning of the different states ascribed to the soul in its preexistence, the everlasting prae's of such an approximating mode of thought are like the everlasting post's of the corresponding forward approximations.

Jasper Johns's ambivalent American paintings, equipoised between image and object, invention and preexistence, have long confounded art historians and critics — unsure of whether they stand for the United States and what sort of political orientation Johns imagined for them.