Sentence examples for apprehension of god from inspiring English sources
The link between joy and beauty and the apprehension of God is one which is very vivid in Robinson.
Society of Friends, also called Friends Church, byname Quakers, Christian group that arose in mid-17th-century England, dedicated to living in accordance with the "Inward Light," or direct inward apprehension of God, without creeds, clergy, or other ecclesiastical forms.
The ancient interpreters' boldness in rewriting was motivated and justified, Professor Kugel writes, by a fresh apprehension of God and the corresponding need to flesh out the command, found in the Book of Deuteronomy and elsewhere, "to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul".
Apophatic preparation involves a practice of "emptying" out of other conscious content in order to "make room" for the apprehension of God, who is beyond our discursive, sensual natures (see Keating, 1996, Chapter 4).
For discussions of the role of the Fifth Meditation in the eventual, self-evident apprehension of God, see Newman and Nelson (1999), Nolan (2005), and Nolan and Nelson (2006).
Buridan's apparent compromise is to argue (with the intellectualists) that human happiness ultimately consists in an intellectual act, "the perfect apprehension of God", rather than in a volitional act such as perfectly willing or perfectly loving God (QNE X.5: 213rb), although he emphasizes (with the voluntarists) the role of the will as a self-determining power in achieving that end.
The meaning of this claim is recognizable only from the understanding of the human as the image of God and from the apprehension of Christ as the "new Adam".
The crucial point is that genuine understanding consists in the apprehension of ideas, even though these are literally in the mind of God rather than of individual human beings, rather than of physical objects, even though the latter do exist.
He spoke, "I would speake it to Gods Glory [that] you have bine an Instrument of doing some good amongst us ... he hath given you a sharp apprehension, a ready utterance and abilitie to exprese yourselfe in the Cause of God".
They showed no signs of anxiety, apprehension, or -- God knows -- guilt.
