Sentences with phrase «which free creatures»

Only Christian faith as a whole constitutes the answer to this question: the goodness of creation, the drama of sin, and the patient love of God who comes to meet man by his covenants, the redemptive Incarnation of his Son, his gift of the Spirit, his gathering of the Church, the power of the sacraments, and his call to a blessed life to which free creatures are invited to consent in advance, but from which, by a terrible mystery, they can also turn away in advance.

First, for the process theist the natural order has value in itself and not just as a sphere in which free creatures can grow to moral maturity (as the Basingers imply for the classical theist).

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(10) It is possible that all creatures (creaturely essences) are such that they would go wrong with respect to at least one action in any world in which they were free with respect to morally significant actions (NN 184 - 89).

The nature of significant freedom dictates that God's creative choices are limited by the decisions which he knows free creatures would make if created (NN 169 - 84).

If it were possible to have creatures who could enjoy all the same values which we human beings enjoy, except that they would not really be free, should not God have brought into existence such creatures instead?

He is thus against natural law theory but for a DCT in which God, by creating rational creatures, is bound to make their highest end a relationship with the divine persons, but free to pursue that end via any number of routes.

Indeed, for any significantly free creature there is a possible world in which that creature is significantly free but always does what is right.

Yet God is the One who values and uses, because God incorporates into the divine life which is everlasting the good that takes place in the historical sequence; and God overrules or uses for good that which comes from the «vain imagination of foolish men» in their sin and defection — and, we may add, from anything else that is evil or wrong thanks to the free decisions made by the creatures in their divinely granted capacity to choose among relevant possibilities.

I agree but add: God had no alternative to willing that there be some free creatures, first because (pace Alston) the idea of not creating at all could occur (if I may say so) only to a confused creature, second because, as Peirce, Bergson, and Whitehead have seen, by a «creature» we can consistently mean only a lesser form of the freedom or creativity which in eminent form is deity.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.»

To this, quoting Vatican I and the books of Wisdom and Hebrews, the same text adds, «For all things are open and laid bare to his eyes, even those which are yet to come into existence through the free action of creatures.»

So that Christ combines the imagination, spontaneity, and richness of experience which were God's aims in drawing forth human beings, with the free obedience and loving communion with God which in a «fallen» world are otherwise approximated only by creatures of a «lower» order.

It is the free person, God's creature, facing the ultimate issues of life and death, but facing them in their final dimensions, and making decisions which arise from the creative courage of one who has faced and accepted the conditions of real life.

In the beginning, God set up a universe with genuinely free creatures, which can truly impact their surroundings — for good or for evil.

They have challenged this form of the free will defense on several grounds, the most basic of which we have already mentioned: because the traditional doctrine of creation affirms that God creates the agent's free will, it ought to follow that the traditional God works the free will of the creatures, where this is inconsistent with the doctrine of freedom outlined above.

Thus the historical realm is characterized by a purpose which is nothing other than God's incredibly cherishing love, shared with His creatures and moving through their free decisions towards a great end.

But the claim that I had made, which Hasker quoted, was that the God of traditional free will theism could have created «creatures who could enjoy all the same values which we human beings enjoy, except that they would not really be free» (Process 74).

In a statement quoted by Hasker in his discussion of what he calls a «more subtle form» of the above argument (although it simply is my argument), I said that according to traditional free will theism it would have been possible for God to create «creatures who could enjoy all the same values which we human beings enjoy, except that they would not really be free» (Process 74).

But theologically we may still find the instinct of the New Testament synthesis significant, that in God himself there is a fullness and perfection that is unchanging and outside space and time, and that it is this which makes God the proper telos for a creation in which the mystery of that fullness is unpacked only through the ages of the evolutionary process, which passes through a series of increasingly critical stages and is now precariously poised in a dependence on the rational response of free creatures.

In fact, Bonhoeffer declares that «God is worshiped first by the earth, «21 which might raise questions about worship as an act of free creatures toward a Creator.

As free - living adults, they must find and subdue an appropriate creature to play host to their young, which they do with the aid of behavior - altering venoms.

It may also be possible that the penis became erect due to rising blood pressure as the creature struggled to free itself of the resin which would encompass the animal.

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Longtime del Toro collaborator Doug Jones brings the creature of mystery to life who also must find other means of communication beyond speech which only draws more similarities between him and the maid who frees his soul and so much more.

The world I played required me to find 3 ancient balls which transformed into little characters that helped to free a giant stone creature.

You're free to snag a huge variety of fresh / saltwater fish and other creatures, which you can then sell to Re-Tail or donate to the Museum while at the same time filling your encyclopedia.

She creatures sculpture canvases which she adorns with free flowing marks of oil paints and pastels.

Animals are free from self - reflexivity and identity politics; however Kennedy humorously posits horses and snakes (both creatures which inspire and, sometimes, are actual victims of the world of fashion) as bearing corporate branding not only as a false garment but also as an organ inseparable from the being.

FREE Opening reception Saturday, June 16, 2018, 5 - 7 p.m. Menagerie August 4 - September 13, 2018 This juried exhibition is a follow - up to our 2016 «Creatures» exhibition, which was a tremendously exciting & fun show.

For Serralves, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané has conceived a living landscape for the Museum's central gallery in which a glass pavilion housing a garden and mimetic creatures, a set of free standing sculptures, a wall drawing, a hologram and windows that alter the experience of viewing are brought together to create a living ecosystem of transfigurations and metamorphosis, both real and symbolic.»

For our planet's wildlife, creatures which evolved over millions of car - free years, these mechanical monsters must seem like a puzzling new arrival to their local habitats — fast - moving threats which appear to be multiplying at an alarming rate.

A once - rich habitat in the Antarctic has become an impoverished zone as icebergs, increasingly breaking free from the surrounding sea ice because of global warming, scour the shallow - water rocks and boulders on which a diversity of creatures cling to life.