 | Richard Henry Popkin, G.M. Weiner - History - 1994 - 234 pages
...Moses whom Newton emphasizes in his most famous published statement about the nature of God: This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont to be called Lord God..., or Universal Ruler;... | |
 | Peter Gay - History - 1996 - 756 pages
...being: he is Creator and watchful master, wise, just, good, and holy. This "Being," Newton argued, "governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all"; he is a "powerful, ever-living Agent" who prevents the fixed stars from falling upon... | |
 | Naomi Zack - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 268 pages
...and effective ruler of nature. And for that reason, God is literally a subject of science. This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord overall; and on account of his dominion he is wont to be called Lord God pantokrdton, or Universal... | |
 | Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers - Philosophy - 1998 - 992 pages
...Mores mediating 'Spirit of Nature'. In the 'General Scholium', for example, Newton explicitly says that God 'governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont to be called Lord God pantokrator, or Universal... | |
 | J. C. Polkinghorne, John Polkinghorne - Science - 1998 - 148 pages
...could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being . . . This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all . . .' If physics discerned a wonderful piece of cosmic clockwork, biology had even greater... | |
 | Scott D. Evans - Philosophy of nature - 1999 - 180 pages
...inferences whose validity is guaranteed by the containment of phenomena within a divine matrix: This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all. . . . He endures for ever, and is every where present; and by existing always and every... | |
 | Roger Ariew, Eric Watkins - Philosophy - 2000 - 326 pages
...other by their gravity, he has placed those systems at immense distances from one another>. This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and because of his dominion he is usually called Lord God Pantokrator, or Universal... | |
 | David Ray Griffin - Science - 2000 - 368 pages
...the famous General Scholium added to the second edition of the Principia, he said of God: This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont to be called Lord God pantocrator or Universal... | |
 | Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz, Samuel Clarke - Philosophy - 2000 - 132 pages
...other by their gravity, he has placed those systems at immense distances from one another>. This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and because of his dominion he is usually called Lord God Pantokrator, or Universal... | |
 | Christian Libery Press, Garry J. Moes - Education - 1999 - 452 pages
...orderly system of the universe was the "counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being" who governs all things, not as the "Soul of the World, but as Lord over all." He continued with words which, in effect, deny that God was anything like the deists'... | |
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This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont to be called Lord God... 
