creaturehood

But to introduce creaturehood as the distinguishing feature is to render useless the importance of defining creatures in terms of the lack of identity of their essence and their act of existing.

Dietrich of Freiberg Führer, Markus 2009

The idea of piecemeal extinction under the busy claw and beak has never troubled me; I would be there to share the celebration of ongoing life as my blood and sinew passed into different creaturehood, sustaining the ecology.

Northlight Hall, Adam, 1920- 1985

I am told that in the Lester B. Pearson building in Ottawa this tribute to Mr. Pearson appears: "Sooner and better than his contemporaries he had come to understand that the world, for all of its diversity, was one ... that no nation, even the most powerful, could escape a common creaturehood and a common peril."

The Heirs of Runnymede 1975

They thought that before them rose an eminence which the foot of creaturehood had never trodden; that from its height the adventurous climber would rival

The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little Grenville Kleiser 1910

Suppose, for fun, that Milton is some sort of tertium quid [perhaps an echo of Socinian thought - those who are more learned than I must name this], a quiddity is perhaps not so much determined by the creaturehood of the Son, and hence the unavailability of the Father.

Latest entries from endlesslyrocking.blog-city.com 2008

In Chesterton’s Christian perspective, what the ancients called the good becomes acting in accordance to the will of God, of accepting the contingent condition of creaturehood and hence the responsibilities and limits of being made in the image of God.

Oikos and Logos: Chesterton's Vision of Distributism 2008

a pilgrim, -- a burden of guilt, a burden of corruption, and a burden of bare creaturehood, -- I must leave all that, and all the questions connected with all that, for you all to think out and work out for yourselves; and you will not say any morning on this earth, like Mrs. Timorous, that you have little to do.

Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) Alexander Whyte 1878

The mythic materials of the primitive world-history are suffused in the Jehovist with a peculiar sombre earnestness, a kind of antique philosophy of history, almost bordering on pessimism: as if mankind were groaning under some dreadful weight, the pressure not so much of sin as of creaturehood (vi.

Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881