Sentences with phrase «sub specie aeternatatis»

The Wildcat's sub specie from what the domestic cat descends is most likely African wildcat, based on genetics, morphology and behavior (source: Wikipedia).

Father Joe is a memoir, to be sure, but in the midst of his other obiter dicta on politics and humor, it would have been gratifying to see Hendra begin to forge a few more barbs tipped with a little sub specie aeternitatis, even if they were tossed from left of center.

No, Tony dear, contemptus mundi means «detachment from the world,» seeing everything sub specie aeternitatis.»

I can never look at anything sub specie aeternitatis.

However, only God who has created time knows the time for this reformation» — the sense of history sub specie aeternatitatis breaks in.

Seen sub specie aeternitatis, encouraging someone to believe that we don't really know what God thinks about sexuality, and that each of us must work it out for ourselves, and anyway it doesn't matter much as long as we do our recycling and volunteer at a homeless shelter, is as serious an error as telling them that God hates them because they have homosexual feelings.

When I consider baseball sub specie aeternitatis, I find it impossible not to conclude that its essential metaphysical structure is thoroughly idealist.

Since which possibilities occur is logically contingent, sub specie aeternatatis and divorced from all actualities, no possibilities could be distinguished (except perhaps for metaphysical and logical categories, to which Hartshorne believes that there are no consistent alternatives).7 Hence, it would be impossible for God from all eternity to contemplate all possibilities and pre-decide his response to every possible combination of them (as Creel holds).

But in the face of the Gospel, sub specie aeternitatis (and the Gospel points us toward eternity), these distinctions and judgments are quite unimportant, indeed irrelevant.

Is there a sense in which sub specie aeternitatis Hosea's acceptance of Gomer depends upon the work of God in Christ?

Sub specie aetemi, aeterno modo, etc. the element of time is lacking in which things can be spaced out, hence everything is, and there is no transition at all.

No one can translate four dimensions into two — or imagine what individuals look like sub specie aeternitatis, as they must appear in the eyes of God.

For the true claims of Jews and Christians are based on the doctrine of revelation, which means that they are essentially the recipients of a message about the world, one given to them from the only source who can see the world from the perspective of transcendence — sub specie divinitatis.