Sentence examples for conception of heaven from inspiring English sources

"They absolutely gave us a more intimate and personal conception of heaven," Ms. Weisberg said.

It makes sense: the "Exsultate, Jubilate," written in 1773, when Mozart was 17, offers a teenager's conception of heaven through the lens of an ebullient text and bright, vibrant hues.

Given how the Mohists' conception of Heaven fits into the framework of their ethics, the appeal to Heaven to justify and explicate their normative stance risks circularity.

Their conception of Heaven is in effect that of a morally ideal sovereign, whom they characterize as wise or all-knowing, all-embracing, benevolent, generous, and impartial.

Robert Eno argues in his The Confucian Creation of Heaven that Xunzi's conception of heaven (like that of other early Confucians) is sometimes religious, but that he adjusted it in different contexts to suit his rhetorical needs.

The Pastafarian conception of Heaven includes a beer volcano and a stripper factory.

The eventual transition in conceptions of heaven from a willful deity to the causal patterns of nature was possible because heaven was never separate from those patterns.

Their conception of Tian (Heaven) provides a compelling basis for arguing that everyone's interests have equal moral worth.

Also, the Mohists' conception of Tian (Heaven) as an anthropomorphic deity and their conviction that Tian, ghosts, and spirits reliably punish the wicked and reward the good may reflect folk religious beliefs that were less influential on Confucian and Daoist thinkers from higher social echelons.

An exception is Symphony No. 4 (1900; popularly called Ode to Heavenly Joy), which is more of a pendant to the first period: conceived in six movements (two of which were eventually discarded), it has a Wunderhorn song finale for soprano, which was originally intended as a movement for Symphony No. 3 and which evokes a naive peasant conception of the Christian heaven.

Yet Tian is dissimilar from the Judeo-Christian conception of God or Heaven in several ways.