| He, too, holds the Augustinian view that in matters divine we need to love before we know. |
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| He denied that the death of Christ was necessary to satisfy divine justice and appease God's wrath. |
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| She lacked a vision of enjoyment of life's pleasures as obedience to the divine will. |
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| They had betrayed his trust by falling into sin but had been redeemed by the divine mission of Jesus. |
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| Jesus Christ, being the Word made flesh through the divine power of God, is what a real believer should know. |
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| Compassion, service, and a concern for justice are the imperative expressions of our divine worship. |
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| Baptist spirituality takes to heart the divine command to honor father and mother, and to reverence gray hairs. |
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| The Kung Bushmen of the Kalahari revere the praying mantis as a divine messenger. |
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| Thus, the root problem she addresses can be overcome by reintegrating our understanding of divine will and divine nature. |
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| Christ's body as a necessary conduit in the relationship between the human and the divine finds frequent reiteration in Herbert's poetry. |
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| But it is true that the Almighty did miss a perfect opportunity for some divine intervention. |
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| Then my feet no longer rest on earth, but standing by Zeus himself I take my fill of ambrosia, the divine dish. |
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| The amrit that it holds symbolizes the divine consciousness, which is the true source of immortality. |
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| If there were no regular laws of nature, miracles could not be recognized as exceptions and would lose their function as divine signs. |
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| Even immobile beings that show no signs of animation or spirituality harbors within it the divine life-force that brought it into being. |
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| In Indian legend, every rishi, or yogi, who possesses divine power has a retreat in the mountain vastness of the Himalayas. |
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| Fundamentalist clergy wandered the back roads and river paths between Staines and Richmond, calling for divine retribution. |
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| For him it was a means of revealing the divine principle and concretizing a personal vision of the Supreme Being that had been vouchsafed to him. |
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| Lord Siva's revealing grace is how souls awaken to their true, divine nature. |
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| Thus, the task of making life Holy is paramount to giving reality to the Kabbalah and to divine revelation in faith moments. |
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| Over a span of 23 years, he received the divine revelation of the Quran, sometimes one verse or several verses at a time. |
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| There is no divine revelation concerning the true nature of the New York Times. |
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| We simply must rely on God to give us divine revelation by his Holy Spirit. |
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| Pope John Paul II has said that divine revelation reveals not only God to man but man to himself. |
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| The science-and-theology discourse on eschatology did not work toward divine revelation. |
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| Ask the Spirit to give you divine insight and revelation that touches your heart as much as it teaches your mind. |
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| By contrast, in Scripture, God used his undeniable miracles to authenticate his divine revelation. |
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| Is it possible to reconcile a belief in divine revelation with Enlightenment rationality? |
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| Iconic creativity issues out of the entire church's dogmatic heritage, which is founded on divine revelation. |
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| The manna that succored the Israelites in the wilderness was gathered in baskets, which thus formed part of a divine act of national salvation. |
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| The divine judgment is unexpected, kenotic, eschatological, and apophatically affirmed and denied. |
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| Now, he was faced with their roguery that was reaching a fever pitch, under the guise of divine influence. |
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| She escaped, a circumstance she attributes to dumb luck rather than divine intervention. |
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| The holy land of Bharat is the birthplace of many incarnations and manifestations of divine power that descended on earth in human garb. |
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| In that era, the French and the Germans, like the British, believed their wealth and power were divine signs of their virtue. |
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| Unfortunately these arguments do not validly demonstrate the existence of a divine being. |
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| Is this what lurks behind his divine plan to make pubs and restaurants more conducive to dining? |
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| The mere fact of its longevity is proof enough for some of its divine origins. |
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| Cultural genealogy, more so than ordinary genealogy, depends on a belief in the magical and usually divine auspices of lineage. |
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| It is a model that applies both a human and a divine teleology through Thomas's hallmark ethics of natural law. |
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| Hanging from the beams are 'tangkas', paintings on canvas with a backing of silk cloth, which communicate to the lamas the divine teachings. |
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| He believes episcopacy to be of apostolic origin and to have received divine approbation, if not direct command. |
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| According to dharma, or divine law, temple worship is important because it focuses our concentration on God. |
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| God's creation of all persons in the divine image bestows sacredness upon human beings and thus makes them the children of God. |
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| Why should a divine being, with creation and eternity on his mind, care a fig for petty human malefactions? |
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| The universality, the sacredness, and the divine origin of freedom are enshrined in our founding document. |
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| Within the divine plan, they see their role as making this gift available to others, rather than congratulating themselves on possessing it. |
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| The Knossos throne room has a magnificent throne flanked by wall paintings showing griffins and projects an image of divine power. |
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| Here he saw and put into practice the task of exegesis as listening to the text as apostolic testimony to divine address. |
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| As both the reflection of mechanical science and a divine creation, nature was an analogue for knowledge. |
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| Blavatksy may have understood the secret of the divine essence, but I don't think she understood the nature of hypnosis or mesmerism. |
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| Unlike Achilles, who enjoyed divine maternity, Odysseus is solely of human parentage. |
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| In the greeting, Paul establishes his credentials by asserting the divine basis of his apostleship. |
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| However, the reintroduction of true gospel doctrine into those periods of apostasy required a belief in continued divine revelation. |
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| A thoroughly apophatic commitment to divine unknowability appears incompatible with the claim that God is known in Christ. |
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| Epicurus adopted the atomic theory of Democritus, who taught that in a universe of colliding atoms there could be no room for divine activity. |
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| The second section explores contrasting divine attributes in ways that put their relationship to the soul's condition on good display. |
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| His theory does not adequately account for the dual powers of divine conflagration and divine grace. |
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| Lounge on inviting velvet banquettes, leather easy chairs or oversized ottomans and sip their divine cocktails. |
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| In this context, these theophoric elements are abbreviations of the divine name. |
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| The light of the divine shines everywhere, and has no gender, and has no single pronoun, and has no one image. |
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| The Royalists supported the king, Charles I, who believed that he ruled by the divine right of God, and answered to no one. |
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| His biography, written by St Gregory of Nyssa, describes the crowning moment of divine theophany. |
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| Each is a divine theophany, a way in which the divine nature is manifested. |
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| Revelation is an inspired perspective on what the world looks like after God perfects it according to God s divine and judging will. |
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| Hitler said that the Aryans were a pretty much divine race of supermen, different in kind from other lower races of men. |
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| Numerous reports were made of beer being served in taphouses while divine service was under way in the church. |
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| It is not that we are illuminated by the divine light, but that the truth we grasp is illuminated. |
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| The clouds thus serve to veil the divine glory, which no human can see, as in other theophanies. |
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| They believed this to be a natural power of the soul, realized as it gradually opens itself to divine light and truth. |
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| Some of Christ's sufferings were a consequence of the ineffable divine light granted to him. |
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| I have already pointed out that he definitely rejects the traditional legends of theomachies as derogatory to the divine dignity. |
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| What kind of philosophical and theological account does the concept of divine reality call for? |
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| To presume to have all the answers is nothing but dangerous delusion for it is based on the arrogation of divine potency. |
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| Charles was arrogant, conceited and a strong believer in the divine rights of kings. |
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| The antiphonal, on the other hand, contains the chants sung antiphonally in the divine office. |
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| Bands of angels and archangels follow the divine leader, while troops of demons and archfiends hasten after the evil lord. |
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| In most instances the neglected baby is the Jungian archetype of the divine child. |
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| Ward tackles their claims directly dealing honestly with themes such as theodicy and the possibility that human will could thwart divine purpose. |
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| And just how do you check the authenticity of the author's claim to divine inspiration? |
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| That being impossible here, let us return to the topic of theism and the relation of evil to divine purpose. |
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| Thus, human parenthood is an aspect of the divine image that defines authentic human identity. |
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| The tsar was autocrat by divine right, sustained by the endorsement of the autonomous Orthodox church under its patriarch. |
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| Of special interest to us here is the myth that the creativity deity Obatala molded the archetypal human image from divine clay. |
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| As I concentrate harder, a waft of wind ruffles my hair and I sense divine inspiration. |
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| We walk humbly before God, not claiming divine assurances as our own prerogative. |
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| They are called marabouts, or holy men, and are believed to have baraka, or divine grace. |
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| It is also about the paradoxical tension between human freedom and divine providence. |
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| The city of Jerusalem, laid waste and destroyed by the Babylonians as an act of divine judgment, is described as having lost all its beauty. |
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| Which brings us again to the bishops, who more than anyone should try to govern in accord with divine justice and mercy. |
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| Now, emperor is a royal title, bringing to mind divine bloodlines, elaborate coronations and incest. |
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| Ultimately I think that the quest for God is about searching for threads of the divine in the tapestry of human experience. |
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| Thus the claims of Paul and subsequent tsars to a divine right to rule were based on a very questionable past. |
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| And though he is never less than insightful, it's tempting to divine a special quickening when Heaney writes about his countrymen. |
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| The astronomers' observations were used to divine auspicious moments for many different kinds of activity, from farming to warfare. |
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| Whereas Augustine focuses on the trinitarian nature of God, Denys picks up the Johannine interest in the divine attributes. |
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| His death is the divine judgment on me and my sins which he, the blessed Lamb of God, took instead of me. |
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| In this modern perspective, the death penalty expresses not the divine judgment on objective evil but rather the collective anger of the group. |
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| The loss of the temple was a divine judgment on account of the unfaithfulness of the priests, scribes and Sanhedrin elders. |
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| While Adoptionists believed Jesus to be totally human and not divine, Marcionites believed him to be totally divine and not human. |
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| This is quite different from a view of theosis wherein the divine agent divinizes, transforms, the human agent! |
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| The kesh, the kachha, the kara, the kanga and the kirpan are the gifts, chiseled out for the Khalsa, by the divine artist. |
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| When persons achieve perfect rationality, they accord with the rational order of a universe ruled by divine reason. |
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| For Bulgakov, kenosis, the divine self-diminution, is the core revelation of who God is. |
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| The pattern of kenosis applies, not just to the life and death of the Christ, but also to his performance of the divine role of judgment. |
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| What gets under our skin, aggravates, infuriates, frustrates and makes us hate is of the same seed that also begets love and divine revelation. |
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| Cast in Biblical terms, the poem announces that humankind is unable to recognize the divine reflected in such symbols as archangels. |
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| Vedic Scripture proclaims ahimsa, nonhurtfulness, is a primary religious obligation in fulfillment of dharma, divine law. |
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| But the point of ego dissolution required to exist in a state of selfless divine love is also one of death and rebirth. |
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| Breath has been used for everything from stress management to psychological self-therapy to rebirthing your divine self. |
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| By speaking of the new wine and new wineskins, Jesus was pointing to the newness of the divine life that he had come to give his people. |
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| Jacob has bid us farewell with an angry post threatening us all with a divine reckoning. |
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| One way or another, by accident, divine reckoning or human error, an avenging fire is turned against them. |
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| He made a divine tuna dish with an avocado salsa and followed it up with king prawn kebabs with Haloumi cheese and fresh pineapple yum! |
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| The principle of divine kingship was maintained even when the king was replaced by rulers drawn from outside the family of the enthroned king. |
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| Christ never so eminently appeared for divine justice, and yet never suffered so much from divine Justice, as when he offered up himself a sacrifice for our sins. |
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| Geniuses must have a wild look, their hair must be in disarray, their mind must be in torment on account of their receptivity to divine afflatus, which comes in via the hair. |
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| Despite its fatalistic title, which suggests divine retribution, Nemesis is a realistic novel, not a parable. |
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| This union is neither a revocable contract between independent and equal parties nor mandated by an unchanging divine law which legitimates the subordination of women. |
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| Sunlight, for instance, often stands in for divine grace or revelation. |
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| In order to appreciate the Nile's position in antiquity, we should see it through ancient eyes, remembering the ancient distinctions between the divine and the human. |
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| In what he saw as divine intervention, a gap opened in the crowd and the car gunned through it. |
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| Guterson creates a disturbing, mesmeric atmosphere, leaving his readers unsure whether Ann's visions are the result of divine revelation or magic mushrooms. |
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| He could not openly defy his brother Pluto, since they were divine equals, but he magically provided Persephone with a secret escape clause to her marriage vow. |
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| Both indicator and wiper stalks return to the centre point after each prod, making it harder to divine instantly what they have just done or where they are set. |
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| Prof. Torrance aligns himself with Athanasius and the Nicene fathers in holding that the divine identity and one human personality are irreducibly bound together. |
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| Emphasis on the sanctity of the human body can also be seen in the cult of the martyrs and saints, in which bodily remains are imbued with divine power. |
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| Whether or not we believe that divine precepts give us guidance, our behavior is remarkably similar. |
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| Aided by some divine meddling, Paris performs the consummate indignity against his host Menelaus by absconding with his wife. |
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| Please be advised that launching this feature the day after Yom Kippur is not coincidental, but divine timing. |
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| In the 1980s, your community allowed hundreds of thousands of us to die because you believed AIDS was divine punishment. |
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| This new sense opens the eyes of the regenerate saint to see and understand divine things in a way that had been impossible for him before his conversion. |
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| It was Aeschylus who recast him as suffering hero and enemy of divine tyranny, crucified on a crag in the Caucasus where Zeus's eagle tore at his vitals. |
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| They need to read tea-leaves, divine the intentions of all and sundry, and work their publics into a froth based on those efforts. |
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| All the rites de passage, birth, puberty, marriage, and death gave occasion for liturgical celebration, in which divine protection was surely invoked. |
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| Infant and deathbed baptisms bring new dimensions to understanding the operation of baptism engaging human life to its limits and beyond as evidence of divine grace. |
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| The perfectly moronic bearer of this little divine awakening has the distinction of being one of the first truly monumental schmucks of my career. |
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| Music is expression of divine melody, the same with the poetry. |
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| The whole of divine revelation comes to full fruition in him. |
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| Yet her sexual masochism is oddly mixed with non-erotic desires for an omnipotent caretaker, infantile wishes that parallel his yearning for divine love. |
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| She warned of divine punishment if the capital were not reoccupied. |
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| The God who gallops through divine places with the cherubim and seraphim is the same God who changed the world order by simply standing up and walking out of the tomb. |
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| That's an ambitious enterprise and, regrettably, the work is let down from achieving such divine afflatus by sloppy editing and far too many solecisms. |
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| What roles does affliction, the suffering constrained by the sense of God's palpable absence, play in divine providence, according to Herbert's poetry? |
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| In Senufo society, divine creation is commemorated by large, sculpted figural pairs that depict a timeless and ideally balanced archetype of humanity. |
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| In short, a quant combs through price ratios and mathematical relationships between companies or trading vehicles in order to divine profitable trading opportunities. |
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| With this came a shift from proof by discussion or divine revelation to the scientific method, which dictates that theories must be supported by experiment. |
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| There is also macadamia nut oil, avocado oil and divine macadamia nougat. |
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| Wicca includes ceremony and ritual that serves the union of the divine with nature rather than embracing a personal god. |
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| The names of nearly 2.5 million of the fallen are inscribed here, all of whom are considered to be divine spirits worshiped under Japan's pantheistic Shinto religion. |
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| If, at the same time, we understand divine judgment as kenotic and eschatological, we will be driven to deny that anything we understand by judgment might represent it. |
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| Coke attended divine service with the new king on 22 May, who, following the service, took a sword from his bodyguard and knighted Coke. |
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| Who does not feel the passage of divine dreams over his troubled life when the infinite meadows of heaven are suddenly abloom with light? |
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| The more abstract we are from the body... the more fit we shall be to behold divine light. |
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| Such feelings promptly yielded to his habitual affiance in the divine love. |
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| Further, David understood that God is all-present, and he could never escape the divine presence. |
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| It was a strange conceit, with our owne affliction to goe about to please and appay divine goodnesse. |
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| Nature then with rapture trembles, Music flows divine along To besoothe our restless feeling By the magic thrill of song. |
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| The judgment of any casuist or learned divine concerning the state of a man's soul, is not sufficient to give him confidence. |
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| If in the loneliness of his studio he wrestled desperately with the Angel of the Lord he never allowed a soul to divine his anguish. |
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| Unlike some of the more colorful faith healers of the past, Dr. Krieger does not claim miraculous cures or divine interventions. |
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| And indeed if he does escape it will seem a miracle, and almost a divine intervention, not only to the pursued but to the pursuers. |
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| On the one hand, it contains three implied narratives of each of the three divine engenderings. |
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| Nor will my conscience permit me to fard or daub over the causes of divine wrath. |
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| This, they will say, was figurative, and served, by God's appointment, but for a time, to shadow out the true glory of a more divine sanctity. |
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| Unlike the divine gift, the gift of blood can be corrupted by the giver as well as by the givee. |
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| He in turn is represented as an inherently divine being, as indicated again by his glanceless mask-like face. |
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| If there are souls to whom this world seems a goodless realm, who fail to find divine tokens of love anywhere, you and I are partly responsible. |
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| Snake handlers use snakes as an integral part of church worship in order to exhibit their faith in divine protection. |
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| But if the Goddess chose to help you by giving Miss Hoover the Hershey squirts, such is her divine wisdom. |
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| He claimed that dreams are not foretelling and that they are not sent by a divine being. |
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| Wells and springs had female, divine links exemplified by the goddess Sulis worshipped at Bath. |
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| He deified his paternal grandmother Livia to highlight her position as wife of the divine Augustus. |
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| God can immediately immute, change, corrupt, destroy, or annihilate whatsoever pleaseth His divine majesty. |
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| God's immateriality entails the divine attribute of incorporeality, that God is neither a body nor embodied. |
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| All his victories, especially Agincourt, were attributed to divine intervention. |
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| Domestically, Henry is known for his radical changes to the English Constitution, ushering in the theory of the divine right of kings to England. |
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| Ultimately, Elizabeth would insist she was married to her kingdom and subjects, under divine protection. |
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| Charles believed in the divine right of kings and thought he could govern according to his own conscience. |
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| But Newton insisted that divine intervention would eventually be required to reform the system, due to the slow growth of instabilities. |
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| He also contended that discussing the soul is impossible because it is made of a divine substance, and humanity cannot perceive the divine. |
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| Babbage put forward the thesis that God had the omnipotence and foresight to create as a divine legislator. |
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| Like Samuel Vince, Babbage also wrote a defense of the belief in divine miracles. |
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| On the other hand, if life can start very easily and does not need any divine influence, then I will say that there is no god. |
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| This was part of a medieval teleological understanding of nature in which all things have an intended role to play in a divine cosmic order. |
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| In particular, Georges Cuvier insisted that species were unrelated and fixed, their similarities reflecting divine design for functional needs. |
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| Romans also believed that every person, place or thing had its own genius, or divine soul. |
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| This lunary sphere, lowest and basest to divine bodies, is first and highest to terrestrial bodies. |
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| Christ, therefore, is understood as being both fully divine and fully human, including possessing a human soul. |
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| Atonement for humanity, however, could only be made through the figure of Jesus, as a sinless being both fully divine and fully human. |
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| According to Graham Schweig, Hinduism has the strongest presence of the divine feminine in world religion from ancient times to the present. |
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| However, Sikhism also accepts saguni concept, that is a divine with qualities and form. |
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| The vision in the Guru Granth Sahib, states Torkel Brekke, is a society based on divine justice without oppression of any kind. |
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| He was seen as of divine descent, was the leader of the religious cult and was responsible for the fertility of the land and military victory. |
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| Bottom also briefly alludes to a passage from the First Epistle to the Corinthians by Paul the Apostle, dealing with divine love. |
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| The divine right of kings, divine right, or God's mandate is a political and religious doctrine of royal and political legitimacy. |
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| In the pagan world, kings were often seen as either ruling with the backing of heavenly powers or perhaps even being divine beings themselves. |
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| There was no divine mandate that punished the emperor for failing to rule justly. |
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| Mariana thus challenged divine right theories by stating in certain circumstances, tyrannicide could be justified. |
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| Rubbra recalled that he would divine a student's difficulties and gently guide him to finding the solution for himself. |
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| They fling their afflicted bodies at him, demanding miracle cures and divine secrets. |
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| Thus the poem merely implies that there may, or may not, have been a divine visit, when there was briefly heaven in England. |
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| With his doctrine that sovereignty is conferred by divine law, Bodin predefined the scope of the divine right of kings. |
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| This defeat was then attributed as divine retribution for Domnall Brecc turning his back on his prior alliance. |
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| The new power of the monarch was given a basis by the notion of the divine right of kings to rule over their subjects. |
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| Throughout much of European history, the divine right of kings was the theological justification for absolute monarchy. |
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| All three were united in opposing Sir Robert Filmer's defence of divine right and absolute monarchy. |
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| Canon law is not divine law, properly speaking, because it is not found in revelation. |
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| The same awful impressions excited by the divine threatenings and punishments recorded in Scripture, and by the moral order of the world. |
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| The Sadducees rejected the divine inspiration of the Prophets and the Writings, relying only on the Torah as divinely inspired. |
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| Outside of sermons during the celebration of the divine liturgy it could not instruct or evangelise to the faithful or its youth. |
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| Artists could claim divine inspiration, thereby raising visual art to a status formerly given only to poetry. |
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| There is also a formal distinction between the divine attributes and the powers of the soul. |
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| At the same time, the level of skill required to produce quality work was recognized, and even considered a divine gift. |
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| She operated within a religious tradition that believed an exceptional person from any level of society might receive a divine calling. |
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| Thomson's own views favoured a version of theistic evolution sped up by divine guidance. |
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| David, believing his life had been spared through divine intervention, founded Holyrood Abbey on the spot. |
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| Similarly, gold is associated with perfect or divine principles, such as in the case of the golden ratio and the golden rule. |
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| After the ship set sail Dionysus invoked his divine powers, causing vines to overgrow the ship where the mast and sails had been. |
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| This inspired Frank Ewart who claimed to have received as a divine prophecy revealing a nontrinitarian conception of God. |
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| Its divine characters are recast as either as humans or demihumans such as giants, elves and faeries. |
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| The fight broke out after the divine plowman Amaethon stole a dog, a lapwing, and a roebuck from Arawn. |
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| When you generously, open-heartedly bless someone who has hurt or harmed you, incredible divine alchemy takes place. |
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| Irenaeus' opponents also claimed that the wellsprings of divine inspiration were not dried up, which is the doctrine of continuing revelation. |
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| However, divine will is the reason that the house collapses at the particular moment when I am inside. |
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| According to them, the body is the titanic part, while soul is the divine part of humans. |
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| A strong believer in the notion of rule by divine right, Charles I, King of England and Scotland, persecuted religious dissenters. |
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| Later he was confronted by two labourers who were convinced that he possessed a divine power that could work miracles. |
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| The monarch would also be subject to both natural and divine law, as well, and also be subject to the Church in matters of religion. |
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| In the upper left the author is seen writing the text under divine inspiration. |
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| Some theologians had proposed that angels were not divine but on the level of immaterial beings subordinate to the Trinity. |
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| Mark Antony had lost the support of many Romans and supporters of Caesar when he initially opposed the motion to elevate Caesar to divine status. |
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| In his view, the Roman Empire was to be governed as a divine monarchy with himself as the benevolent despot at its head. |
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| According to this theory, the title was a sign that the bearers ruled under a divine mandate. |
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| It replaced the ancient kingdom of France, ruled by the divine right of kings. |
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| According to Frazer, the sacred king represented the spirit of vegetation, a divine John Barleycorn. |
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| By implication, this invokes divine displeasure if the oath taker fails in their sworn duties. |
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| Holy Orders is one of the Seven Sacraments, enumerated at the Council of Trent, that the Magisterium considers to be of divine institution. |
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| But to this nation it is peculiar, to learn presages and admonitions divine from horses also. |
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| Some Hindu philosophers and theologians argue for a transcendent metaphysical structure with a single divine essence. |
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| Like PSY, the Tractate articulates a pleromatic system in the sense of a configuration of the divine sphere. |
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| The Boers saw their victory at the Battle of Blood River as evidence that they had found divine favour for their exodus from British rule. |
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| In the Byzantine state, the emperor was the sole and absolute ruler, and his power was regarded as having divine origin. |
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| Elmo's fire during dangerous storms and interpreting it as a sign of divine protection by Tianfei. |
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| For example, the Black Death was thought to have been caused by both divine and natural origins. |
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| This genre of ritual encompasses forms of sacrifice and offering meant to praise, please or placate divine powers. |
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| The Sapa Inca was conceptualized as divine and was effectively head of the state religion. |
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| The belief in divine kingship prevailed into the eighteenth century, although by that time its religious implications had limited impact. |
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| The outdoor procession during Bright Week takes place either after paschal matins or the paschal divine liturgy. |
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| By the Late Classic, the aristocracy had greatly increased, resulting in the corresponding reduction in the exclusive power of the divine king. |
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| Tlatocayotl, or the principle of rulership, established that this divine right was inherited by descent. |
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| The spontaneous intellect of man always defines the divine which it feels in ways that harmonise with its temporary intellectual prepossessions. |
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| He may also have been inspired by the model of Archangel Michael with the idea of divine punishment. |
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| The Tatars, despite being convinced that the armor had divine properties, agreed to the sale upon the involvement of the voyevoda. |
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| In this context, the writings of the Anglican divine William Bedell are particularly illuminating. |
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| These include belief in divine reward for those who observe the Lord's commandments and likewise, punishment meted unto the transgressors. |
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| Human beings could learn about God only through divine revelation, he believed, and Scripture therefore became increasingly important to him. |
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| The Father creates, the Son redeems, and the Spirit sanctifies, a divine unity with separate personalities. |
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| Finally, Calvin taught that if rulers rise up against God they lose their divine right and must be deposed. |
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| His attack on the claim that tithing was a divine institution, however, had the greatest theological and social impact. |
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| It thus forms the basis for establishing a relationship with a divine agency, as well as with other participants in the liturgy. |
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| When ritual is undertaken to participate in a divine act or assist a divine action, it is liturgy. |
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| Whether or not reasoned discussion about the divine is possible has long been a point of contention. |
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| A mistranslation is not God's word, and no human authority can invest it with divine authority. |
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| In those Masses where measured music and organ are customary, nothing profane should be intermingled, but only hymns and divine praises. |
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| The kokutai ideas of the Mito school were embraced, and the divine ancestry of the Imperial House was emphasized. |
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| Nevertheless, in spite of these institutional changes, sovereignty still resided in the Emperor on the basis of his divine ancestry. |
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| The first man, Adam, experienced no kind of repugnancy between the divine justice and the divine mercy. |
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| Each creature was viewed as the artifact of a divine blueprint. The role of the biologist was to reverse engineer God's handiwork. |
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| There is often little consciousness of meter, as if the music had reached a state of divine rhythmlessness. |
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| In 1436 the vicar, the Rev John Hay, was dragged out of the church and murdered while officiating at divine service. |
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| They suppose two other divine hypostases superior thereunto, which were perfectly secret from matter. |
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| Finally, in suitheism we have the belief that not only do gods exist, but that we are divine as well. |
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| Does not the whole tenor of the divine law positively require humility and meekness to all men? |
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| We never go beyond the present.... Tomorrow never comes. Our existence is enclosed within the divine moment, the eternal now. |
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| Does it not seem as if for a creature to challenge to itself a boundless attribute, were to trench upon the prerogative of the divine nature? |
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| The divine virtues of truth and equity are the only bands of friendship, the only supports of society. |
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| None of those who defend the adoring of the humanity of Christ with divine worship, do well and warrantably express their opinion. |
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| What drives the human impulse to ascribe divine meaning to tragic events? |
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| I cannot fault the feminists and womanists who call these atonement motifs an image of divine child abuse. |
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| The Qawwali is Sufi music and Qawwal means word in Arabic, which represents the divine voice. |
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| Like two sides of the same coin, or a divine yin and yang, the Master of Tora painted these annunciations side by side. |
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| Wood draws on this vision of divine love to illustrate how The Violent Bear it Away must not be read as supporting Jansenism. |
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| At Delphi, the human querent was enjoined to acknowledge the divine essence of the sacred answerer before being admitted to his presence. |
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| There are even those, like the Qu'ran, that are believed to be verbatim dictation from a divine source. |
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| But above humans there is the tier of the Asuras, divine beings who do not rule. |
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| The first is a traditional scroll showing creation according to the Santals, involving cows, divine nectar and ensuing humankind. |
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| In A SENSE, Maimonides identifies his opinions on divine providence with Epicureanism. |
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| Did this term refer only to the divine statues venerated by the Babylonian pagans, Buddhists, Hindus, Manichaeans, and Sogdians? |
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| Tent, or shahein, shares the same root as the word shekinah, the term used for the divine presence in the Hebrew Scriptures. |
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| Then, in ten chapters that span the books and figures of the TaNaKh, he wrestles with questions of divine justice and human responsibility. |
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| There, Mary was begged to act as moderatrix to her Son, presumably to mitigate the wrathful divine judgment inflicted on the city. |
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| The integration of both the apophatic way and the cataphatic way is the best method of attaining the true vision of the divine light. |
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| In fact this custom may indicate the historicity of the monasterial tradition of preserving aged tree trunks for carving divine images. |
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| The world we inhabit is a process within which the traces of divine causality can be limned in theophanies that have their own logic and order. |
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| The Monophysites said that two-nature believers must think Christ has multiple personalities, divine and human. |
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| The interior walls of the coffin are inlaid with paintings of the divine protectresses Isis and Nephthys, sisters of the god Osiris. |
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| The Nestorians so separated the human from the divine that they created, as it were, two Christ individuals. |
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| Many European monarchs, such as those of Russia, claimed supreme autocratic power by divine right, and that their subjects had no rights to limit their power. |
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| In the Late Preclassic, the pinnacle of this process was the combination of ultimate political and religious power in the divine king, the k'uhul ajaw. |
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