For centuries, the Church glorified the divine conception in art, music, and literature as one of its most alluring aspects.
So, yeah, basically it was a divine conception or something like that, like the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ, I guess.
And her story might also have seemed suspect, like when Mary told of an angel's visit and divine conception.
Secondly, La Forge's conception of a continuous divine creation remains opaque.
Ancient monarchies often enlisted polytheistic conceptions of divine or semidivine individuals in support of the dynasties.
Apparently, then, the project is to develop a conception of special divine action (action beyond creation and conservation) that doesn't involve intervention.
In this respect, the one god of monotheism is contrasted with the conception in some nonmonotheistic religions of an impersonal divinity or divine unity that permeates the whole world, including humanity itself.
Molina in his Concordia aimed at a unified conception of divine justice and mercy, foreknowledge and divine guidance, predestination and condemnation, and grace and human freedom.
It was, however, always on a relatively modest scale, devoted to a conception of divine kingship similar to but far less ambitious than the Khmer.
From a skeptical point of view, which does not acknowledge divine revelation, this Thomist conception amounts to faith belief that is without evidence or that is stronger than the evidence warrants, the gap being filled by the believer's own will to believe.
