Sentence examples for conceiving of god from inspiring English sources

Plato's view of the soul also marks him as a spiritualist, and Aristotle was a spiritualist for distinguishing the active from the passive intellect and for conceiving of God as pure actuality (knowledge knowing itself).

From a theistic perspective to think that God and science provide competing explanations fails to grasp the relationship between God and the natural world by conceiving of God as one more cause within that natural world.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

The person who conceives of God in this way is apt to look upon the observable world as contingent i.e., as something that could not exist by itself.

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.