Common sense, divine revelation, historical experience, empirical testing?
What divine common sense!
Cave is most comfortable in the wafer-thin gap between the common and the divine.
Despite military urgency and profit-mongering, Isaacson believes that the altruism of scientists – who freely shared information and who even, before Bill Gates's proprietary takeover, made computer software available without charge – put into action a civic creed propounded by Benjamin Franklin when he claimed that "to pour forth benefits for the common good is divine".
Gregory, on the other hand, agreed with the common position on divine foreknowledge, but when it really counted, in soteriology, Gregory took this common position to what he (and Auriol) thought was its logical conclusion.
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).
Of the apparent sermonising in the choruses, Leng concludes: "'The Lord Loves the One' conveys the same basic message as 'what you put in is what you get out,' so, at one level, it's more a matter of common sense than divine revelation".
There is evidence that he made the common analogy between the divine air that sustains the universe and the human "air," or soul, that animates people.
The friary was like a monastery, with common life and the divine office in choir, but the friars made excursions, sometimes at great length both in time and distance, for apostolic works, mostly preaching.
However, "… where it is clear that the beneficial interests are to be shared, but it is impossible to divine a common intention as to the proportions in which they are to be shared … the court is driven to impute an intention to the parties which they may never have had".
