Sentence examples for conception of divine from inspiring English sources

It was, however, always on a relatively modest scale, devoted to a conception of divine kingship similar to but far less ambitious than the Khmer.

Molina in his Concordia aimed at a unified conception of divine justice and mercy, foreknowledge and divine guidance, predestination and condemnation, and grace and human freedom.

This is because of a deficiency in the Greek conception of divine and human freedom.

It is helpful, therefore, to highlight their differences over divine freedom and to consider whether either conception of divine freedom can be reconciled with the absolute perfection of the creator.

Some (Gilson 1926 7, Lynch 1941, McEvoy 1982) take his treatment of Aristotle's account of scientific knowledge to accord no role to Aristotle's notion of abstraction, in whose place Grosseteste instead employs an Augustinian conception of divine illumination.

He will elaborate on these points in X.8; in VII.11 14, he appeals to his conception of divine activity only in order to defend the thesis that our highest good consists in a certain kind of pleasure.

Ancient monarchies often enlisted polytheistic conceptions of divine or semidivine individuals in support of the dynasties.

Wright makes it clear that he is tracking people's conception of the divine, not the divine itself.

Grounded in Plotinus and other Neoplatonic writers yet also in Aristotelian logic and metaphysics, Ibn Gabirol developed a system in which he introduced the conception of a divine will, like the Logos (or divine "word") of Philo.

If they aren't distinct, however, special divine action would just be intervention, in which case the project of developing a conception of special divine action that doesn't involve intervention is unhopeful.

The history of religions shows various efforts to combine unity and multiplicity in the conception of the divine.