Sentences with phrase «unchanging order»

Because of this unchanging order in the world, each possibility has a different relevance or significance for each actuality.

The problem is that while at times Whitehead conceives of God's ordering of the eternal objects to be eternally unchanging, at other times «the ordering is such as to specify the initial aim for each new occasion... (it) is extremely difficult to see how one unchanging order can provide a specific and novel aim to every new occasion.

Also, it is extremely difficult to see how one unchanging order can provide a specific and novel aim to every new occasion.

Not exact matches

If, therefore, experience is essentially temporal in structure and order, a timeless unchanging being of the sort proposed by classical theology could not experience, could not know or love, and indeed could not exist concretely.

Plato presented two orders of existence: that which is, i.e., being, which is unchanging and eternal and is «always real» (e.g., the Platonic forms), and that which becomes (génesis) «and is never real.»

First, he tells us that God's ordering of the eternal objects is primordial, and that in a sense which clearly means eternally unchanging.

This aim is primordial and unchanging, and it determines the primordial ordering of eternal objects.

Justin Martyr lifted up the Logos of God as the means, or bridge, by which an absolute and unchanging deity can have relations with the created order.

Science - fictional adventures in an imaginary future, among extraterrestrial intelligences or future versions of humanity, are — obviously — not accurate predictions of our future, but have more truth in them than to suppose our current social and biological order is unchanging.

Or did he bring in this teaching because it was part of a universal congregational order, modelled on the synagogue, which he believed that God intended for all churches at all times in the way that the unchanging gospel was intended for all churches at all times?

Griffin & Sherburne, New York: The Free Press, 1978, 343) John Cobb says that Whitehead»... tells us that God's ordering of the eternal objects is primordial, and that in a sense which clearly means eternally unchanging.

They often assume, for example, that agents in a market all have an unchanging list of all the things they want, ranked in the order they want them.

For some time people had allowed themselves to think that the victims of that notorious order had been swallowed up in the dark night of oblivion, that the only people you would come across in the street or the square were the formerly blind, with their unchanging appearance, the peaceful tap - tap - tap of their sticks — the kind of blind people everyone's eyes and ears were long accustomed to.

It holds that human society can only exist within unchanging environmental circumstances, and that the normal process of politics must therefore be suspended in order to balance the concentrations of gases in the atmosphere.