Sentence examples for acts of divine from inspiring English sources

These laws correspond to God's general will, in contradistinction to particular expressions of God's will: miracles and other occasional acts of divine intervention.

The idea that the different races had different origins (from different types of monkey, or from different acts of divine creation, depending on the views of the proposer), began as a convenient piece of slave-traders' propaganda, intended to denigrate the humanity of Africans.

Though his family belonged to the Anglican church, he also became acquainted with the varied popular literature of the English Puritans: plain-speaking sermons, homely moral dialogues, books of melodramatic judgments and acts of divine guidance, and John Foxe's The Book of Martyrs.

We need to say something about what are the relevant acts of divine will.

Seen in this light, Augustine's view hardly seems to reduce human cognition to special acts of divine revelation [see O'Daly 1987, pp. 206 7].

To be a theological voluntarist is to hold that entities of some kind have at least some of their moral statuses in virtue of certain acts of divine will.

Shelley's student doctor apes that act of divine creation and comes a cropper.

Following St. Augustine, Western Christian theologians until the 16th century conceived the redemptive act of divine grace as taking place within the context of willful human collaboration.

The plot had been so wide-ranging that every pillar of the state monarchy, church, nobility and Parliament could interpret its survival as an act of divine providence.

Whether or not it was an act of divine intervention, the deluge allowed everyone to claim victory — the drenched women, their detractors and the police.

Was it a scheme to outshine the more imposing Saint Francis Cathedral Basilica, a plot to sell staircase fridge magnets for $3.75 each at the chapel's gift shop, or an act of divine architectural intervention?