Although there may be no direct line of influence, we may also consider Feuerbach's critique of religious belief as a 'projection' of human attributes, and Freud's analysis of religious belief as an instance of 'wish-fulfillment', as two modern successors to Xenophanes' observation of the general tendency of human beings to conceive of divine beings in terms of their own attributes and capacities.
An unwed girl can conceive the divine, and a child born in a manger can usher in the kingdom of God.
For Hume, original polytheism was the result of a naïve anthropomorphism (conceiving the divine in human form) in the assignment of causes to natural events.
This short text raises two interesting questions about how al-Kindi conceived of divine action.
Feminist panentheists conceive of the divine as continuous with the world rather than being ontologically transcendent over the world (Frankenberry 2011).
Others Trenton Merricks for example—have suggested that we can conceive of the divine persons on analogy with the separate spheres of consciousness that result from commissurotomy(Merricks 2006).
I think of the painting as a kind of Annunciation, making contemporary the moment Mary learns she will conceive and bear a divine child.
In this allegorical account of the rise and fall of an ancient classical civilization, with cues, Ms. Novak suggests, from the landscapists Claude Lorrain, J. M. W. Turner and John Martin, Cole expressed his ideas about the relationship of civilization, a man-made project, to nature, one conceived by the divine.
This order is usually conceived as a divine order that is well intentioned toward human beings and is working for their well-being as long as they are willing to insert themselves into it, to follow it willingly, and not to upset it by perversion or rebellion.
Verrycken (1990, 218) interprets Ammonius' conception of the relation of God and the world as based on the Neoplatonic 'procession' (God's production of the world) and 'reversion' (its direction toward God as final cause), with God conceived as the divine Intellect.
