Bishops, in classical Anglicanism, have often been divines themselves-thoughtful scholars as well as administrative functionaries.
The profiler is about the equivalent of somebody who divines jackal tracks with a broken twig.
His contact with Gallican divines at the Sorbonne gave him a continuing interest in the French church.
In more recent times the Jesuit Vasquez, and the Lutheran divines G. Calixtus and Walch, have defended the Adoptionists as essentially orthodox.
He likens himself to the Puritan divines he studied in graduate school, whose religious scruples were part of their confession of faith.
There are also many references to contemporary natural sciences and a healthy smattering of Anglican divines, including Hooker, Andrewes, and Herbert.
Protestant divines had tended to restrict typology to figures, actions, and objects in the Old Testament which in their view shadowed forth Christ as their antitype.
Anglican divines then, however innately uncompetitive, resembled today's racehorses or pop singers in the passionate claques they acquired.
We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines.
First, because it is granted by all divines, that hypothetical necessity, or necessity upon a supposition, may consist with liberty.
Anglican concern with broader issues of social justice can be traced to its earliest divines.
Some philosophers and divines have evirated themselves, and put out their eyes voluntarily, the better to contemplate.
Arminian divines had been one of the few sources of support for Charles's proposed Spanish marriage.
The Act of First Fruits and Fifths, the Test Act, the Act of Uniformity 1662, and others engaged the leading divines of the day.
It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated-so what will be left of art as nature disappears?
Such divines include Cranmer, Richard Hooker, Lancelot Andrewes and John Jewel.
Secondly, Anglicans cite the work of the standard divines, or foundational theologians, of Anglicanism as instructive.
The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition.
Rather for Shiism the opinions of a few high-level divines carry equal weight, even when they disagree, and individual Shi'as can chose among those opinions.
Carmen, divines, great lords, and tailors, 'Prentices, pimps, poets, and jailers, Footmen, fine fops do here arrive, And here promiscuously they swive.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
On 11 December 1640, 15,000 Londoners presented the Root and Branch petition to Parliament, which led to the Westminster Assembly of Divines.

One divines instinctively and at once the catacombs, the hypogea and the mummies that lie beneath!
This fundamental doctrine of the Scotch divines is tersely summed up in binning's Sermons, vol.
She feels my approach, she divines it, her presentiment does not deceive her.
He was examined in the faith, by the King's command, by two Berlin divines.
Perhaps if they had been priests or divines they might have resisted to the last.
Biblical critics are inclined, however, to accept in its strict sense the translation of the jacobian divines.
Erasmus was received with great complaisance by the Louvain divines.
Great names come crowding to our minds, names of poets, dramatists, historians, philosophers, divines.
Many of our greatest divines have been anything but precocious.
Twenty-four divines sate as proctors for twenty-four chapters.
The doctrine of nonresistance had been dear to the Anglican divines.
Their doctrine of postlapsarian existence informed puritan divines that human souls were sites of total depravity.
Who is to decide, when even divines differ between a providence and a temptation?
He despises her because of the Mollycoddle he divines in her.
Because our divines have copiously disproved it, to whom I refer you.
Latimer and Paley, with a host of other divines, were students here.
As the psalms of David exceed all other language, so does the psalmody that has been fitted to them by the divines and sages of the land, surpass all vain poetry.

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