His distinctive, God-given voice, with its soulful inflection and knowing feeling, is the glue that holds it all together.
It tells the story with images borrowed from Babylonian mythology, transformed to express its own distinctive view of God and of humanity.
The unique properties are unmixed in Abelard's technical sense, for the Persons differ from one another in their unique properties, and such properties do not apply to God; the distinctive properties are mixed, though, in that God is characterized by each (the powerful God is the wise God is the good God).
The initial escape discussion scene works, in part, because of how the characters' worldviews are distinctive and viscerally expressed ("God ain't never say we was gon' be free in heaven," notes the preacher (Mykelti Williamson).
There are times when such focus almost makes him glow onstage, one reason he has been able in past seasons to offer a distinctive portrayal of the young god in Balanchine's "Apollo": he radiates nobility.
We take these three as our focus because, unlike (for example) doctrines about providence or the attributes of God, these are distinctive to Christian theology and, unlike (for example) the doctrine of original sin or the Real Presence of Christ in the eucharist, these have been the subject of a great deal of discussion over the past couple of decades.
Or, at any rate, there is no need to elaborate a justification for ignoring history or context precisely because the Bible clearly and literally expresses each distinctive as the Word of God, and since one of the distinctive doctrines is that the Bible is clear in expressing revealed Truth, one can trust it, or have faith in the truths that are being revealed.
If we do that, we don't have anything distinctive to say to people about God.
Moreover, Malebranche is distinctive in providing an explanation of God's action that distinguishes His general will from His particular volitions.
Feuerbach's distinctive contribution was to argue that worshipping God diverted human beings from enjoying their own human powers.
As a maturing filmmaker, he has a style as distinctive as that of John Cassavetes, the independent-movie god who was his forerunner in the distribution business.
