Arthur Peacocke famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.
-- Arthur Peacocke

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Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each.
-- Arthur Peacocke

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For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.
-- Arthur Peacocke

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We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.
-- Arthur Peacocke

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The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing.
-- Arthur Peacocke

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Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.
-- Arthur Peacocke

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In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.
-- Arthur Peacocke

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Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century.
-- Arthur Peacocke

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Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.
Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it's empowering generations to come. A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.
The one thing that cannot be outsourced is creativity. We have to find ways to support creative people because the only way we are going to improve our laws... is by creating our way out of it.
One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

Arthur Peacocke famous quotes

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