God as Spirit—and Natural Science
The biblical sentence “God is Spirit” (John 4:24) occasioned the development of the Christian doctrine about God as Spirit. But since patristic times “spirit” was interpreted in the sense of Nus, which rather means “intellect.” The biblical concept of spirit (pneuma), however, has its root meaning i...
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Year: 2001, Volume: 36, Issue: 4, Pages: 783-794 |
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B modern physics B immensity B Eternity B Spirit B God as spirit B field of force |
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