Sentence examples for divine act from inspiring English sources

Oneiromancy, prophetic divination from dreams, considered a divine act in most ancient cultures and surviving to modern times in certain folk traditions.

The Greek Fathers saw in Genesis 1 2 a reference to the Spirit's cooperation in the divine act of creation.

Charlie Ward called it a divine act of preordainment, and Riley said he couldn't possibly argue with him.

"The big bang, which is today posited as the origin of the world, does not contradict the divine act of creation; rather, it requires it," the pope said in an address to a meeting at the pontifical academy of sciences.

Rushd stuttered aghast over whether the world was created in a single divine act or - potentially a capital offence to claim - complexities like eternal matter might have been involved.

The exhibit, however, made it clear that these songs would come to the people who wrote them and the act of their creation was seen as a divine act.

The ancient Middle Eastern people believed that the universe resulted from the injecting of order (cosmos) into chaotic primordial beings or matter, followed by divine acts of creation.

The contingency of the divine acts of knowledge and will is based on an atemporal causal priority between the powers of knowledge and the will and their acts (178.24 26).

Based on our consideration of divine "acts" above, we can see how even investigations into the workings of corporeal nature can be seen as having explicitly theological significance in a Maimonidean context.

In what he calls a 'conjuration', a letter he composes from Heraclitus to Parmenides, he has Heraclitus say to Parmenides: '"Being" is the scalp of the divine acts and the political names.

Rather than witnessing any divine acts, we are instead given a bird's eye (or angel's eye?) view of traffic in LA's poorest neighborhood, from which Ferraro's new album takes its name.