Sentence examples for conceive of divine from inspiring English sources
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.
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 am more acutely aware now that there are many ways of conceiving of the divine, and that none of us has the One Truth.
It might even be consistent with Heidegger's view to relax the requirement that the divine catalyst must be an individual being, and thus to conceive of certain transformational cultural events or forces themselves as divinities (Dreyfus 2003).
With the emergence of Kabbalah at the end of the twelfth century, ru'aḥ ha-qodesh was no longer tied to the aforementioned metaphysical overflow, but rather to the divine overflow; that is, the kabbalists articulated a theory of a godhead conceived of as a body of divine energy radiating or emanating its essence "down" into the created worlds and the human realm.
He considered all things in the world — beautiful or ugly, ordinary or outlandish — to be equivalent expressions of divine will because he conceived of God essentially as an artist.
The theory of divine illumination is generally conceived of as distinctively Christian, distinctively medieval, and distinctively Augustinian.
On one shore, political institutions are conceived in terms of divine authority and spiritual redemption; on the other they are not.
