Milton suggests that God extruded the matter of the universe — "his dark materials" — through a process of evacuation, the divine version of a bowel movement.
Wanting to always be the best and most divine version of myself at all times, I have been feeling like this conversation around not being able to leave her needs to shift.
Although in a sense Thomas Aquinas defends a version of divine illumination, he in another sense clearly weakens the theory by giving it the status of an innate gift rather than ongoing patronage.
That is, Alston defends a limited version of divine embodiment, similar to that defended by Richard Swinburne.
However, Alston is sceptical regarding a stronger version of divine embodiment wherein the world exists by metaphysical necessity such that God must animate it.
This is a common version of divine command theory, according to which all of the more workaday obligations that we are under (not to steal from each other, not to murder each other, to help each other out when it would not be inconvenient, etc).
Alongside the well-executed (if obvious) van Goghs and Lichtensteins are the unexpected couples costume, Pollock and Rothko, and a killer version of Divine as painted by Andy Warhol.
But now we're touching on Santa as a metaphor for the divine: a safe, unscary version of God.
The rhetoric coming out of the White House and the G.O.P. these days is in fact of the anti-ecumenical variety associated with hard-core evangelicals who purport to have a finished, proprietary version of divine truth.
The fundamentalist-evangelical axis that made itself felt during the culture wars carries the hallmark of the early movement: a finished, proprietary version of divine truth that precludes other interpretations.
