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TOWARD A THEISTIC CREATIONISM185that. For all practical purposes the neat distinction between immediate and mediate creation has usually been dropped about as soon as made. Many Reformed thinkers have either failed to sense the significance of the doctrine of mediate creation or — a ...
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186L. VERDUINto God's creative activity. The reason for this revulsion against the ascription of the dimension of process to the concept of creation is that in this theology religion is thought to feed not so much on the dimension of process as on the dimension of the non-procession ...
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TOWARD A THEISTIC CREATIONISM187„It snows", or, that „Nature is prodigal with seed", little realizing that this is actually heretical language. The Bible teaches us to say „He calleth for the waters of the sea and poureth them out on the face of the earth" of „He scattereth His hoar ...
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188L. VERDUINfrom the outside; the new „orthodoxy" which he proposed was one in the signature of process, with a God who was indissociable from process. The question is whether we are actually called upon to make this choice, whether indeed we are permitted to make it. This is the a ...
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TOWARD A THEISTIC CREATIONISM189So too with the miracles of Jesus. In them the ictic dimension is plainly in the foreground. But that does not mean that they were built on a deistic last. It does not mean that they were examples of sheer transcendence. In them there is likewise a co ...
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190L. VERDUINthis frantic chase after the irruptional. In a truly theistic creationism place will be given ungrudgingly to the processional dimension. It must be observed that wherever the dimension of process is in evidence there recourse to inherent potentiality is present. A glan ...
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TOWARD A THEISTIC CREATIONISM1Ó1and lay low was an attempt to deny the genuine recourse to creaturehood implied in the authentic Christology. Docetism, whether early or late, denied that Jesus Christ was actually come in the flesh because it was embarrassed, pagan that it was, by th ...
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192L. VERDUINbe recognized. Recourse to inherent potential quite as surely. When men in the one-sided theology of Rev. Herman Hoeksema begin to speak of the Covenant as being condition-less then they give evidence of a deistic tendency that must be known for what it is, and, rebuked ...
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TOWARD A THEISTIC CREATIONISM193already existing creaturality. Let us take a look at the Genesis account to see whether what we should expect to find there is also actually present. Nothing is said quite so plainly nor quite so insistently in the Genesis account as that process is o ...
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194L. VERDUINthe earth a whole lot earlier. He could have lived on this planet quite successfully before the animals put in their appearance. He can thrive on a vegetable diet; in fact, Genesis 9 ; 3 seems to say that men began his career as a vegetarian. No, the point more probably ...