creaturehood

(ˈkriːtʃəˌhʊd) or

creatureship

the state of being a creature

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'The experience of hunger that is not quickly sated is a good reminder of our creaturehood.'

What it means to fast and abstain in the modern world

Women pretending to be men; men becoming more like women; everyone aping divinity in his desperation to escape creaturehood? Western youths seeking the Orient; orientals seeking capitalism?

Apocalyptic Rhetoric in the Literature of Michael D. O'Brien

But some of the most important ramifications of the doctrine of the human fall into sin that form the heart of a Christian understanding of culture are that despite the fall man did not lose his creaturehood, nor did the fall abrogate God's command to "be fruitful and increase in number, fill the earth and subdue it."...

Dutch-Canadian Writers Contribute to Canadian Literature

And while philosophy since the Enlightenment has conditioned us to believe "we are what we think" (thanks in large part to Rene Descartes), Augustine's statement positions the seat of human character and creaturehood in the heart, not the head, suggesting that our proper end is devotion, not cognition.

Liturgies for young and old

Imperial eyes/Quarter the ground for fellow creaturehood:/Small as the hour some hunted terror cries/I go back to my desk.

Fragments of Edward P. Thompson's literature: the prose of The Sykaos Papers and the verses of My Study/Fragmentos da literatura de Edward P. Thompson: a prosa de The Sykaos Papers e os versos de My Study

A sense of creation not only involves belief in the Creator but also embraces creaturehood as the universal, albeit analogous, condition of all finite reality.

Creation as an ecumenical problem: renewed belief through green experience

As early as Amos Wilder's 1976 Theopoetic, he emphasized that "the dimension too often missing [from Christianity] is that of rooted-ness, creaturehood, and embodied humanness." (2) This perspective is held by other theopoetics thinkers as well.

Flesh to mind: Whetstone to thought

Fourth, and finally, in spite of a sharp difference, there exists between angels (especially Guardian Angels) and humans a heaven-forged sympathy, because our commonality of creaturehood involves free will, intelligence, love of God and communion in that love, and the very vocation of our angel-guardians is to secure our vocations in love.

The angel guardian knows and loves the ransomed race

Eventually, after Magpie Rising was completed, I was able to work comfortably in poetry out there, in poems with a horizontal pacing flexible enough to stand honorably in the landscape--poems like "Penstemon Bearings," "On Heart River," and "From the Erstwhile Forks of the Grand." And I still make small schematic drawings of rivers snaking across the plains--word-free homage to their elegant creaturehood.

Purposeful looking and songs on the air: a conversation with Merrill Gilfillan

She argues that all earth beings, and the earth itself, share the same status: "The standing of creaturehood, which remains beneath all the different forms of being and activity that the inhabitants of the earth exhibit." She goes on to claim that, "If all beings of the earth are valuable as God's creatures, all of them share in this value equally.

Mission in the context of empire putting justice at the heart of faith

They have at one and the same time freed God from bondage to the world-order by asserting the creaturehood of all that is not God, and have ensured that the statement about the immanence of God firmly excludes any possibility of man's divinization, for man too is explicitly said to be a creature of God.

Adam: created in the image and likeness of god

How can our theology reflect the humility and limit of our creaturehood, while also honouring the glorious generosity of our Creator who made us with a creative capacity for language and thought to give voice to our faith in community?

Communicating and communing: when theology is conversation, we most fully honour and give glory to god

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