Holy war, any war fought by divine command or for a religious purpose.
Deciding to retire, though, wasn't a matter simply of hearing the divine command and obeying.
In addition, he guides his life by obedience to divine command, to which he sacrifices his own natural inclinations.
It's as if I'm merely a vessel for some divine command: "There shall be chocolate banana blondie bars.
By emphasising the difficulty of understanding Abraham's response to the divine command, he emphasises the difficulty of faith itself.
The director intended the explosion not as mindless spectacle (or not just as that) but as an illustration of the family's struggle to abide by divine command.
This double involvement is most vividly apparent in the biblical period, when both were equally present as divine command and demand.
The feeling is of a creative voice materializing out of nowhere, as if by divine command — which, indeed, is how the usually levelheaded Puccini said that he was summoned to write opera.
After his troops had fasted and prayed three days, he opened the Bible in their presence, apparently at random, and read a passage that could be interpreted only as a divine command to withdraw.
In Judaism, for instance, it represents the fulfillment of the covenant between God and Abraham (Genesis 17:10 27), the first divine command of the Pentateuch that every male child shall be circumcised.
This means that even if (as I believe) Scotus is some sort of divine-command theorist, he is not whole-hog in his divine command theory.
