Sentences with phrase «process omniscience»

From an aesthetic standpoint, there is a certain economy to process omniscience.

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The redefinition of omnipotence and omniscience provide the groundwork for process thought's unique treatment of theodicy, the question of how the concept of an all powerful yet loving God can be reconciled with the existence of evil in the world.

Two of the traditional attributes of God, omnipotence and omniscience, are reinterpreted in process thought.

The minimal claim of process thought is that «by reason of the relativity of all things» each actual entity is preserved everlastingly in the divine experience.154 «God is immortal,» Hartshorne writes, «and whatever becomes an element in the life of God is therefore imperishable... I think the idea of omniscience implies that we have such an abiding presence in the mind of God.

But process thinkers may go a step further than Hauerwas in their understanding of divine power as noncoercive, persuasive, beckoning love with their reinterpretation of the traditional divine attributes of omnipotence and omniscience.

Experientially omniscience is related to the ordered process by which all things come into being.

God's attributes as such, his holiness, his justice, his mercy, his absoluteness, his infinity, his omniscience, his tri-unity, the various mysteries of the redemptive process, the operation of the sacraments, etc., have proved fertile wells of inspiring meditation for Christian believers.

In a recent article in Process Studies, Richard Creel discusses the idea that the realm of possibility is a continuum and the implications of this idea for our understanding of God's omniscience (PS 12:209 - 31).