 | Rafiq Zakaria - God - 2000 - 368 pages
...for his perfections; but we reverence Isaac Newton rejected the divinity of Christ and the Trinity. and adore him on account of his dominion: for we adore...providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature."8 He wrote in his Principia, "This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could... | |
 | Michael Caputo - Religion - 2000 - 248 pages
...substance of God. We know Him only by His most wise and excellent contrivances of things and final causes; we admire Him for His perfections, but we...of His dominion, for we adore Him as His servants. HE ENDURETH FOREVER, AND IS EVERYWHERE PRESENT; AND BY EXISTING ALWAYS AND EVERYWHERE, HE CONSTITUTES... | |
 | Christian Libery Press, Garry J. Moes - Education - 1999 - 452 pages
...Christianity, which also speaks of revelation as the key source of knowledge about God — GJM\ , and final causes; we admire him for his perfections; but we...final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature. Nevertheless, Newton may have unwittingly helped promote the secularization of natural science by his... | |
 | Matt Goldish, R.H. Popkin, J.E. Force - History - 2001 - 232 pages
...Leibniz' conception of the deity and upon Leibniz' metaphysical doctrine of pre-established harmonyi. "a god without dominion. providence. and final causes....and everywhere. could produce no variety of things." See Sir Isaac New ton's Mathematical Principles of Natural PhIlosophy and his System of the World.... | |
 | Edward Grant - Education - 2001 - 412 pages
...Descartes.'48 In the General Scholium, Newton emphasizes that only God could have produced the cosmos: "Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly...always and everywhere, could produce no variety of things."'49 But after the conclusion of his worshipful tribute to God, Newton, in the final two paragraphs... | |
 | Keven Brown, Eberhard Von Kitzing - Religion - 2001 - 310 pages
...typical of the thinking of the time. The preDarwinian worldview was well summed up by Newton, who said: "A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature. . . . All the diversity of natural things which we find, suited to different times and places, could... | |
 | Tapio Luoma - Religion - 2002 - 246 pages
...242. TF, 106. 243. "We know him only by his most wise and excellent contrivances of things, and final causes; we admire him for his perfections; but we...servants; and a god without dominion, providence and final cause, is nothing else but Fate and Nature." Newton, The Mathematical Principles, 446. 244. Manuel,... | |
 | Brian Pronger - Health & Fitness - 2002 - 300 pages
...most wise and excellent contrivances of things, and final causes; we admire him for his perfection, but we reverence and adore him on account of his dominion;...dominion, providence, and final causes is nothing but Fate and Nature. Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and everywhere,... | |
 | S. Lelas - Gardening - 2001 - 322 pages
...LXXXIX). Also Newton: "We know him only by his most wise and excellent contrivances of things and final causes; we admire him for his perfections, but we...reverence and adore him on account of his dominion, ... And thus much concerning God, to discourse of whom from the appearances of things does certainly... | |
 | Joseph Francis Kelly - Philosophy - 2002 - 260 pages
...Significantly, he also believed the converse. If the cosmos needed God, the deity needed the cosmos: "and a god without dominion, providence, and final causes is nothing else but Fate and Nature." Both quotations come not from one of Newton's religious works but from the second edition t17131 of... | |
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We know him only by his most wise and excellent contrivances of things, and final causes; we admire him for his perfections; but we reverence and adore him on account of his dominion: for we adore him as his servants; and a god without dominion, providence,... 
