Sentences with phrase «whole order of creation»

Then you need to explain why your god was so incredibly scientifically ignorant that he screwed up the whole order of creation in his book.

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One warning on the use of the terms is in order: theologically the term, creation, does not refer only to the nature, but the whole creation, human and otherwise.

A major criticism is that the whole notion of orders suffers from a static picture of creation.

The order of creation is achieved when God is the vine and we are the branches, when God is the life - giving power and we are related to him in such a way that we expand and bloom, becoming full, free, whole, and real.

We should remember what Lesslie Newbigin defines as conversion: «A turning round in order to participate by faith in a new reality which is the true future of the whole creation.

When we say that the revelation of God to man, as environer, is a necessity in the ontological order, we mean that, «the intelligibility of man is related not to the Divine Essence as a claim, but only to the Divine Wisdom, as the principle of meaning for the whole of creation... because the Divine Wisdom and Will that is evident in man must be true to itself».

We hope that there remains no quarrel with the orthodoxy of our central affirmations that «The fathers maintained the sacredness of matter and its share in God's saving plans ``; that the flesh is central to the plan of salvation; that the Incarnation takes place in order to bring about eternal communion between the Godhead and humanity, and thereby the whole of the physical creation which is summed up in Christ.

It is aimed not at the total negation of a part of creation, but at the right ordering of created things within the whole economy of life.

Now it is central to the whole point of David Novak's argument that this entire strategy is founded on a most fundamental error, whose formulation we must cite in full, adding italics to highlight its centrality: «Theologically, the error here is that revelation is essentially reduced to the supreme awareness of an order already present in creation.»

However, while in his earliest work he thinks it «probable» on balance that the Word would not have become flesh unless we had fallen [5] in the later De Veritate he says that the primacy of Christ is the end to which the whole of creation is ordered and is the principle of our predestination into the supernatural life.

Indeed a sacred order or a «hierarchy» was thought to exist in the whole of Gods creation.»

He argues that the bishops» concept of justice is less comprehensive than that of the Bible: «In the economy of God, the whole created order is the object of redemption, and justice is rendering whatever is required for the fullest possible flourishing of all creation» (p. 474).

Again, the insistence on the societal nature of the world, and on man's genuine participation since he himself is organic to that world, illuminates the Christian belief that man belongs to the creation and that the whole natural order, as well as human history and personal experience, is integral to the purpose of God.

We can go much further and say that the whole cosmos will only make sense, even as a material equation, within a higher Wisdom or «Law» that relates all creatures to the Creator; relates body and soul in Man as one creature without confusion of orders, and Man to God as his true environment; and, finally relates all Creation and the whole of humanity to God Incarnate in Christ as their source and their goal.

Unsurprisingly, you should do the same during your work with a persuasive research paper, for instance, but in order to do it successfully, I am going to describe the whole working process of essay's creation.

George Browning: Sustainability and Sabbath: Genesis 2:1 - 4a and the Climate Change debate This thesis argues that a person of faith and more particularly of Christian faith is a person who lives Sabbath rest, understands their place within the creation, and is committed to the redeeming of the whole created order and the fidelities which enable life to be sustainable.

• to describe the lives of children in Ireland, in order to establish what is typical and normal as well as what is atypical and problematic; • to chart the development of children over time, in order to examine the progress and wellbeing of children at critical periods from birth to adulthood; • to identify the key factors that, independently of others, most help or hinder children's development; • to establish the effects of early childhood experiences on later life; • to map dimensions of variation in children's lives; • to identify the persistent adverse effects that lead to social disadvantage and exclusion, educational difficulties, ill health and deprivation; • to obtain children's views and opinions on their lives; • to provide a bank of data on the whole child; and to provide evidence for the creation of effective and responsive policies and services for children and families; • to provide evidence for the creation of effective and responsive policies and services for children and families.