Sentence examples for conception of deity from inspiring English sources

The standard medieval conception of deity, for example, requires that God is an absolutely perfect being, possessing no accidents whatsoever.

If he thinks that the conception of deity is so obscure or so permissive that no truth value can be ascribed to 'God exists', perhaps he should extend the notion of 'atheist' to cover his position also.

In addition to this, these philosophers set forth a method of analyzing all conceptions of deity and world according to basic religious and rational categories.

Even imagery of God vary somewhat along this line with traditionalists leaning toward more authoritarian, judgmental views, progressives toward more benevolent, supportive conceptions of Deity.

In the absence of any conception of a deity in Buddhism, the question of sacerdotal mediation could be ignored, though in the Mahayana ("Greater Vehicle") school and in the Tantric (esoteric) school some elements of the priestly tradition survived.

In general, the conception of the deity is informed more by His goodness and bounty than it is by His power and judgment.

By contrast, a philosophy founded on a voluntaristic conception of the deity would have no ground of certainty or of morality because it would depend on the arbitrary will of God who could, by arbitrary fiat, decree non-sense to be true and wrong to be right.

Those thinkers who had serious doubts about the traditional conception of God — of whom there were many in the seventeenth century — substituted another sort of deity, usually a more distant or less personalized one.

The plurality of wildly different conceptions of God and deities leads to differing ideas regarding atheism's applicability.

They are evident in the hems of skirts, in the arguments of scientific papers and in conceptions of the Deity.

The Indo-European character of sun worship is also seen in the conception of the solar deity, drawn in his carriage, generally by four white horses, common to many Indo-European peoples, and recurring in Indo-Iranian, Greco-Roman, and Scandinavian mythology.