The truth-values of statements about contingent things, though temporally immutable from the beginning of the world and also immutably known by God, were metaphysically contingent.
The doctrine of divine providence also makes it immediately clear what the answer to the second question has to be: the past cannot be changed because the past events are immutably present in the divine providential plan which is immutable (607A).
THE sheepskin slipped slightly this week from the purposefully pacific figure of Ariel Sharon, the front-runner for Israel's prime-ministerial election on February 6th, exposing what Ehud Barak insists is the grizzled general's immutably lupine proclivities.
In particular, he was wrong to think Islam was necessarily, and therefore immutably, intolerant.
In other words, Chicago owes much to its position.It was not, however, immutably ordained that Chicago would become the capital of the Midwest.
"The future of a rising China is not yet set immutably on one course or another," is the cautious conclusion.The Pentagon was due to issue the annual report earlier this year, but the State Department and other agencies reportedly worried that some of its language was too blunt.
Ultimately, inevitably, the route to real change has to run through politics — the politics of America's broken, god-awful, immutably two-party electoral system, the only one we have.
For Orthodox Jews, therefore, the Law is immutably fixed and remains the sole norm of religious observance.
It also fixed those 12 notes so immutably in the Western musical consciousness that the revolutionary developments of 20th-century music, far from undermining them, have tended to perpetuate them.
In Orthodox Judaism, therefore, both the Written Law (Torah, the first five books of the Old Testament) and the Oral Law (codified in the Mishna and interpreted in the Talmud) are immutably fixed and remain the sole norm of religious observance.
Maintaining, as he does, that mankind is inherently and immutably flawed, he must always be indifferent or hostile to proposals for improving human life by means of social or political change.
