Sentence examples for conceive of god from inspiring English sources

Likewise, his theology, unlike Epicurus's, did not conceive of God as a material body.

We are the only species that can argue about creationism or conceive of God.

My own uncertainty about how to conceive of God is deep.

Young people should be provided with a range of stimuli that demonstrates how people from various traditions conceive of God and convert such belief into religious practice.

And yet, Lotze contends that we must conceive of God as the preeminent personality and so, once again, God's own personality is "an immediate certainty," grasped only as a necessity of the human mind.

The Neoplatonists, in the main, wished to conceive of God as a simple and radical unity, preceding all multiplicity in the world, and as such, must precede the existence of qualities.

Some Delta groups grew rich, a development that may have encouraged an already existing tendency to conceive of gods and spirits as species of beneficent foreigners.

It is not merely the greatest invention since writing, as Lord Anthonyy) Giddens suggested; it is the most revolutionary event in the history of the human psyche since the first hunter-gatherers began to conceive of gods who had access to their most private thoughts and develop rituals to honour and appease them.

He conceived of God as a unit who, while indivisible, was plural.

Similarly, Christian philosophers conceived of God as existing from everlasting to everlasting and as present in all parts of the universe.

Plato, in the Timaeus, conceived of God as being a nonomnipotent shaper and thus accounted for the manifest element of evil in phenomena.