Sentence examples for consideration of god from inspiring English sources

Does it arise from a consideration of God simply as he is in himself, or does it only result from some reference to really distinct realizations of these perfections in creatures?

This triadic structure of the human mind reflects its Source: the Perfect Being that is simultaneously, Highest Unity, Supreme Truth, and Ultimate Good.[36] Likewise, the ontological constitution of intellectual creatures, humans and angels, moves us along the road to the consideration of God.

Bonaventure opens consideration of God in his Commentary on the Sentences by noting that the categorical attributes of being are "its special properties which characterize its imperfection," but the transcendentals are "its general conditions which characterize its perfection".[42] The transcendentals therefore set the terms for treating God.

At the macro level, the Summa Theologiae is organized into three parts; first, a consideration of God; second, the rational creature's movement toward God; and third, of Christ as the way to God. (For a recent discussion of and summary of the debates over how to understand this organization, see Johnstone 2000).

In Quodlibet XI, q. 1 he mentions that the metaphysician's consideration of God in himself is more perfect than that of the natural philosopher, who simply views him as the First Mover of the first mobile being, i.e., the outermost heavenly sphere.

But James also thinks that the necessity of positing distinct ideas in God follows from a consideration of God's essence.

The discrepancy between the Catholic doctrine of God's freedom and power and the philosophical modal conceptions was brought into the scope of discussion by Peter Damian and Anselm of Canterbury and was developed in a more sophisticated way in twelfth-century considerations of God's power and providence and historical contingencies.

There is much at stake in the creation-evolution debates, since legitimizing consideration of a "God hypothesis" within the scientific enterprise redefines the essential nature of science.

"The rush to benefit from the gas-drilling bonanza is an obvious temptation for many and this, of course, raises the question of how consideration for God the Creator enters into the decision-making process" - Diocese of Blackburn, Fracking and God.

But for all its susceptibility to symbolic interpretation and its considerations of man, God, justice and the wrenching racial relations of South Africa, "The Quarry" is never less than a well-acted, first-rate venture into mystery and suspense.

Mendelssohn's second way of proving God's existence is based upon consideration of the idea of God together with the conditions of nonexistence.