Accordingly, as that model is the ever-existent Living Being, he set about making the universe also like it, But he planned to make as it were a moving likeness of eternity; and, at the same time that he set in order the Heaven, he made, of eternity that abides in unity, an ever-flowing likeness moving according to number - that to which we have given the name time.(31)" Furthermore, Plato continues to appoint this higher being as the creator of humans. ... According to Lucretian thought, we live within a world where "nature, free in a world no lords and masters rule, does everything by he...

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Before, he was largely concerned with sin and punishment. ... Part of Ultima's authority in the community and in Antonio's family comes from the fact that even though she is not a member of the Catholic Church, she rigorously follows a philosophy that highly values harmony and free will. ...

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Lodahl then makes an analogy from our own bodies to demonstrate this point; that we "know and feel our own bodies not from a distance, but from within, in immediate sympathy" (GNG, 119-120). ... In the context of his understanding of these two terms, Lodahl writes: "we are again led to something like McFague's model of the universe as God's body. ... Hence, Lodahl totally misses my point in his reply that "I am entirely unsure as to what such a rendering of the God-world relation would entail; even if I were to claim that the world is the embodiment of God, sure...

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