"We depend on divine providence.
Communal welfare depended on divine wrath or favor, which might bring on flood, famine or bountiful harvest.
The pious thing to do, the speaker says, is to pray to the gods for this brother's return, since human happiness depends on divine good will.
The Book of Exodus is full of supernatural events that depend on divine intervention: sticks turning into snakes, rivers turning into blood, children being saved by the sacrifice of lambs, pillars of fire illuminating the desert night, seas parting and so forth.
Second, the efficient causality of created things depends on divine efficient causality.
To Albo, prophecy is not a natural characteristic of the human soul, but rather depends on divine will.
While it is obvious is that this not a version of theological voluntarism at all moral obligation in no way depends on divine command it satisfies the intuitive description of what is involved in the supervenience of the moral on the nonmoral: for there could be, on this view, no differences in moral status without some difference in divine commands.
Bonaventure understood that the step from a true proposition to divine truth is a large one, so he advocates a moderate illuminationist position, one that depends on both divine and created causes.
As luck, fate or divine grace would have it (depending on one's personal theology) Obama is blessedly, dare I say uniquely, well-suited to our dire circumstances.
Depending on the track, Divine Fits sounds like a new wave guitar band, a synth-pop act, a garage band or an early '70s drone-rock experiment.
