Sentences with phrase «process doctrine of»

This contention is that «a very large majority of Christians are unconvinced and unsatisfied by the process doctrine of God.»

The process doctrine of actual entity extends the notion of body to all the occasions in the universe.

For those who are religious, the process doctrine of God is important in this regard.

A second consequence of the process doctrine of God is that while the distinction is preserved between man's love for God and man's love for the neighbour, this is not the distinction between love for what is merely temporal and love for what is eternal.

I shall then explore affinities between the process doctrine of God and the image of the divine in the work of Hauerwas.

The result is a process doctrine of God's two-fold nature.

Without losing ontological Process doctrine of identity, God undergoes God is compatible growth in God's knowledge and with a Biblical therewith change in God's description of God «being.»

In the essays by Beardslee, Pregeant, and Coats, the various exegetical methods employed do seem to be governed by a hermeneutical theory central to which is the process doctrine of «propositions.»

It is a hermeneutical remark resting for its warrant and the warrant's backing on a distinctively process doctrine of interpretation.

Thus far, it seems that the changes required of the process doctrine of God, while significant, are fairly minor.

1The literature in the process doctrines of God and Christ is vast.

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the negation of ideology, the political secularization of the doctrine of original sin, the cautious sentiment tempered by prudence, the product of organic, local human organization observing and reforming its customs, the distaste for a priori principle disassociated from historical experience, the partaking of the mysteries of free will, divine guidance, and human agency by existing in but not of the confusions of modern society, no framework of action, no tenet, no theory, and no article of faith, a distrust of the systems and processes of the idol of self and of the lust for power and status, scorn to all approaches of ideology and meta - narrative.

Richard Dawkins merely states in unvarnished form doctrines that other scientific metaphysicians take for granted: In the beginning were the particles and the impersonal laws of physics; life evolved by a mindless, non-teleological process in which God played no part; and human beings are just another animal species.

Given this interpretation of Whitehead's doctrine of societies in Process and Reality, I will now turn to a re-evaluation of articles written by Whiteheadians over the years on the mind - body relationship.

Whitehead's process doctrines allow us to sort out the phases of interaction constituting such development, and there is also a tradition of literary criticism devoted to the general forms of action, which I shall discuss below.

The doctrine of internal relations which underlies the process of concrescence makes it impossible to attribute change to any actual entity» (PR 92).

And in the process there was an erosion of Augustinianism that emphasized the soteriological significance either of human will in a form of synergism or of human cooperation with the divine and a growing attack on such classic Protestant doctrines as limited atonement and predestination.

In addition, a process view of self - determination, for example, will be quite different from Kantian doctrine.

A perfected and universally convincing doctrine of God does not exist in the process context or in any other.

Whitehead's last book, Modes of Thought, and his late lecture, «Immortality,» provide evidence that there was no significant alteration of the major doctrines of Process and Reality.)

Of these five books, by far the most significant for the study of his doctrine of God are Science and the Modern World, Religion in the Making, and Process and RealitOf these five books, by far the most significant for the study of his doctrine of God are Science and the Modern World, Religion in the Making, and Process and Realitof his doctrine of God are Science and the Modern World, Religion in the Making, and Process and Realitof God are Science and the Modern World, Religion in the Making, and Process and Reality.

Along with the logical subject - predicate paradigm, the related metaphysical doctrine of enduring substratum with changing attributes is also to be rejected in favor of a conception of process evolving towards more and more interconnection between apparently separate existents.

And, while Pietro Cardinal Parolin, the secretary of state, and Gerhard Cardinal Müller, formerly prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, have called for dialogue in the wake of the filial correction released a few weeks ago, it is unlikely that Francis would participate personally in such a process.

There can be no doubt that this dependence on others for a rich doctrine of human beings was a weakness of process theology.

It is difficult to see how «clearly contrary» understandings of doctrine could emerge in such a process.

The general doctrine of God developed in Process and Reality was implicit in Religion in the Making, but at two points substantive changes have occurred.

For a critique of Tillich's position from a process point of view, see Charles Hartshorne, «Tillich's Doctrine of God,» ibid., pp. 164 - 97.

At most it demonstrates that certain process doctrines are compatible with certain alleged tenets of the theology of some Biblical writings.

It will be useful at the outset to distinguish two matters that the very title of this response tends confusingly to run together, viz., (1) «Hermeneutics,» in particular hermeneutics as shaped by commitments to the conceptuality and doctrines of process philosophy, and (2) the use of Scripture - as - interpreted in the course of doing theology.

In Chapter Four some of the doctrines of process theology will be proposed as alternative or supplementary to dominant German formulations.

It is some such claim as this: Such - and - such a doctrine in process theology is truly in accord with tenets of some Biblical theology.

if: one can rely on the doctrine of «God as lure» for warrant for the move as backed by Whitehead's process cosmology.

Pope Francis has now unblocked his beatification process, which had been held up for «prudential reasons» by the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, and a Vatican decree has declared that he was martyred in odium fidei, «out of hatred of the faith».

The second sort of argument, designed to show that certain process doctrines are compatible with certain Biblical texts, was warranted by interpretations of certain Biblical texts that were hacked by exegetical studies.

The whole doctrine of the future is to be understood in terms of the account of the process of self - completion of each individual actual occasion» (AI 247).

Professor Hartshorne, who has much more to say on this matter, believes that «the Christian idea of a suffering deity» «symbolized by the Cross, together with the doctrine of the Incarnation» (C. Hartshorne: Philosophers Speak of God, p. 15 [University of Chicago Press, 1953]-RRB- may legitimately be taken as a symbolic indication of the «saving» quality in the process of things which despite the evil that appears yet makes genuine advance a possibility.

To affirm that in this way a necessary, unavoidable, historical process of development on a large scale in the doctrines which are not defined dogma is legitimate and a matter of course, is not to say that this history does not also contain mistakes, over-hasty (though only provisional and revocable) decisions, cases of short - sightedness and lack of understanding.

Process doctrines can go the whole way with existentialism in recognizing that man in his freedom may plunge into self - worship, or self - destruction; but this is because the real world has this risk within it, not because God wills that any creature should lose the meaning of life or decrees that any person should lose his possibility of knowing the good and doing it.

your understanding of the change process is very simplistic, because your mind is not open, you specifically believe already in the traditional doctrines, Dogmas as shown in thousands of years of history evolves, and the need for input variables, meaning the diversity of religious belief is necessay because nature through his will is requiring this to happen, we are being educated by God in the events of history.In the past when there was no humans yet Gods will is directly manifisted in nature, with our coming and education through history, we gradually takes the responsibilty of implementing the will.Your complaint on your perception of abuse is just part of the complex process of educating us through experience.

One of the creative process philosophers, Charles Hartshorne, states in the beginning of Man's Vision of God his conviction that «a magnificent intellectual content — far surpassing that of such systems as Thomism, Spinozism, German idealism, positivism (old or new) is implicit in the religious faith most briefly expressed in the three words, God is love».1 If this be true what is needed is not the discarding of metaphysics but the exploration of this new possibility in the doctrine of God's being.

The second major point in the process doctrine is that it deals with the significance of evil in a manner different from the tradition.

In the Preface to Process and Reality, after having stated that his philosophy is a recurrence to pre-Kantian modes of thought, Whitehead asks if his cosmology is not a transformation of some main doctrines of Absolute Idealism onto a realistic basis.

The third consequence of the process doctrine is a new analysis of the meaning of love, both the love of God and the human loves.

Although all the doctrines mentioned in the verse are important, the most basic phenomenon or concept is still relational origination, which depicts the way of all happenings or experiential processes.

This has immediate implications for the elaboration and development of moral doctrine, for consultative processes and for the free flow of ideas in the church.

In order to support my reading of the principle of process, I now must argue that Whitehead incorporates the distinction between the becoming and the being of an actuality in the doctrine that every actuality is to be construed as a «subject - superject», where in each case «subject» refers to the actuality considered as a becoming, and «superject» to the actuality considered as a being.

Whitehead wrote Process and Reality before the fruition of modern evolutionary cosmology, although his own «evolutionary doctrine» can, I think, accommodate that cosmology (95).

On the one hand, process philosophers have made important advances under the inspiration of the writings of Alfred North Whitehead, while on the other a group of thinkers has pursued the developmental implications of the classical Christian doctrine of God as Trinity.1 Normally these two discussions proceed with little cognizance of or interaction with one another.

This is a programmatic essay for a comprehensive comparative analysis of phenomenology and process philosophy.1 The central concern of this project is the relationship between the major doctrines of these two philosophies: intentionality and prehension.

For, without doing violence to a single organic doctrine, we could avoid the embarrassment of saying that an occasion qua subject is not an entity by the simple expedient of redefining «entity» to signify whatever functions, or is destined to function, as a potential for processes of becoming.