...recall a passage in Newton's Opticks, where he speaks of infinite space as God's 'Sensory', in which he 'sees the things themselves intimately, and thoroughly...comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself'.21 Christianity is a religion of the embodiment of God in the person of Jesus Christ. As one...

...spatial receptacle. I. Newton, Opticks (New York: Dover, 1952) writes: Does it not appear from phenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent,...them wholly by their immediate presence to himself . . .? (Book III, Query 28, p. 370) See RH Hurlbutt, Hume, Newton, and the Design Argument (Lincoln,...

...concerned. Newton writes: "And these things being rightly dispatch'd, does it not appear from Phaenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent,...them wholly by their immediate presence to himself." 212 Only absolute space, then, forms the sensorium of God, a view that is not sufficient for Torrance's...

...pt. i query 28, 'And these things being rightly dispatch'd, does it not appear from the Phaenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent,...Sensory, sees the things themselves intimately, and throughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself.' Cf....

...everywhere, he constitutes duration and space." In his Queries to the Opticks, Newton described a God "who in infinite Space, as it were in his Sensory, sees the things themselves intimately ... by their immediate presence to himself."6 Newton's picture of a God who was literally mindful of...

...living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite space, as it were in his sensory [sense organs], sees the things themselves intimately, and thoroughly...wholly by their immediate presence to himself.” 36 Newton had derived much of his philosophy from the Cambridge Platonist Henry More (164—87), who...

...Opticks (end of Query 28), Newton assimilated space to God's sensorium; Does it not appear from phenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent,...them wholly by their immediate presence to himself: of which things the images only carried through the organs of sense into our little sensoriums, are...

...role, pointing to the Creator. In the Opticks he asks rhetorically: "Does it not appear from phenomena that there is a being incorporeal, living, intelligent,...comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself?"11 The idea of absolute space as the sensorium dei appealed to Newton because it provided...

...world is not mechanical and that everything in it has been designed for a purpose, Newton is convinced that 'there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent,...space, as it were in his sensory, sees the things wholly by their immediate presence to Himself.97 Although, he adds in the Opticks, every true step...

...to that Substance? And these things being rightly dispatch'd. does it not appear from the Penomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent,...them wholly by their immediate presence to himself; ... 22 We claim that it is this concept of God, as a geometer and a mechanic par excellence, who is...