Sentence examples for divine assent from inspiring English sources
Only one part of the divine intellect is in play, not divine assent or the divine will.
In the 13th century St. Thomas Aquinas defined faith as an intellectual assent to divine truth by the command of the will inspired by grace and the authority of God.
In The Queen of the Air (1869) he attempted to express his old concept of a divine power in Nature in new terms calculated for an age in which assent to the Christian faith was no longer automatic or universal.
The unanswered question of entitlement again Faith as assent to truths on the basis of an authoritative source of divine revelation is possible, though, only for those who already believe that God exists and is revealed through the relevant sources.
So Aquinas's model of faith is of believing (assenting to) propositional truth-claims on the basis of authoritative divine testimony.
In a program note, Messiaen wrote that Amen has four basic meanings, ranging from God's own assent to the act of creating the universe, to human submission to divine will.
