Sentences with phrase «whose fiat the world»

Together these strains produce the idea that God is «an aboriginal, eminently real, transcendent creator, at whose fiat the world came into being, and whose imposed will it obeys.

The combination of the two into the doctrine of an aboriginal, eminently real, transcendent creator, at whose fiat the world came into being, and whose imposed will it obeys, is the fallacy which has infused tragedy into the histories of Christianity and of Mahomedanism.

Kaplan agreed with Whitehead that the combination of the ideas of Aristotle's «unmoved mover» and God as eminently real, in Christian theology, led to the disastrous concept of «an aboriginal, eminently real, transcendent creator, at whose fiat the world came into being, and whose imposed will it obeys» (PR 342).