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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

Any Attributes Between Classical Conceiving Creative Different Distinction Each Genuine God Maintained Necessary Particular Philosophical Substances Them World

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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

Adult Adult Life Been Certainly Convinced Decades Engaged Honesty Integrity Intellectual Life Many Now Pursuit Theology Western World

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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

Creating Creativity Endowed Every Existence God Moment Perpetually Stuff Through Very World

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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

Could Desires Good Held Humanity Individual Only Personal Selfish Sense Social Stem Survived Transcendent Urges Values

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

~ Arthur Peacocke

Anglican Both Catholic Century Embraced Evangelical Evolution Many Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Positively Proposal Theologians

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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

Accord Century Certainly Creator Debates Emphasis God Natural Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Processes Revealed Sciences Since Those World

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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

Change Continuous Dynamic Entities Incessant Involved Living Perspective Picture Process Scientific Structures Us Without World

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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

Beings Cosmos First First Generation Generation Human Human Beings Human Life Insights Life Origin Our Substantial

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