| Peter Gay - 1996 - 756 pagine
...and watchful master, wise, just, good, and holy. This "Being," Newton argued, "governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all"; he is a "powerful, ever-living Agent" who prevents the fixed stars from falling upon one another —... | |
| Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers - 1998 - 992 pagine
...conception of God emphasises above all His dominion or sovereignty. This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the World, but as Lord over all;...account of his dominion he is wont to be called Lord God pantokrator, or Universal ruler.'49 For Newton, this dominion is revealed in two complementary ways;... | |
| J. C. Polkinghorne, John Polkinghorne - 1998 - 148 pagine
...the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being . . . This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all . . .' If physics discerned a wonderful piece of cosmic clockwork, biology had even greater marvels... | |
| David Ray Griffin - 2000 - 368 pagine
...Scholium added to the second edition of the Principia, he said of God: This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all;...account of his dominion he is wont to be called Lord God pantocrator or Universal Ruler; for God is relative word, and has a respect to servants; and Deity... | |
| Margaret J. Osler - 2000 - 350 pagine
...nature of a God who sternly governs his generally provident creation: "This Being governs all things ... as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont to be called Lord God . . . or Universal Ruler; for God has a respect to servants; and Deity is a dominion of God . . . over servants."32... | |
| Michael R. Matthews - 2000 - 474 pagine
...comets, could only proceed form the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being . . . and on account of his dominion he is wont to be called Lord God. (Newton, l7l3/l934, p. 544) Newton put forward a version of Aquinas' design argument. Aquinas' individual... | |
| Roger Ariew, Eric Watkins - 2000 - 326 pagine
...he has placed those systems at immense distances from one another>. This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and because of his dominion he is usually called Lord God Pantokrator, or Universal Ruler. For God is a... | |
| Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz, Samuel Clarke - 2000 - 132 pagine
...he has placed those systems at immense distances from one another>. This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and because of his dominion he is usually called Lord God Pantokrator, or Universal Ruler. For God is a... | |
| Christian Libery Press, Garry J. Moes - 1999 - 452 pagine
...universe was the "counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being" who governs all things, not as the "Soul of the World, but as Lord over all." He continued with words which, in effect, deny that God was anything like the deists' mechanical deity... | |
| Hans Schwarz - 2002 - 270 pagine
...likewise counsel, must be all subject to the dominion of One. . . . This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all. ... It is allowed by all that the Supreme God exists necessarily; and by the same necessity he exists... | |
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