Sentence examples for divine intermediary from inspiring English sources

Bābism, religion that developed in Iran around Mīrzā ʿAlī Moḥammad's claim to be a bāb (Arabic: "gateway"), or divine intermediary, in 1844.

Sometimes people directed their appeals to the royal colossi, which were believed to act as divine intermediaries.

Temple statues and reliefs, as well as particular sacred animals, like the Apis bull, served as divine intermediaries in this way.

His use of Greek philosophy, particularly that of Plato, to explicate the ideas of the Torah and his formulation of the Logos (Word, or Divine Reason) as an intermediary between God and the world helped lay the foundations of Neoplatonism, gnosticism, and the philosophical outlook of the early Church Fathers.

Many Pueblo peoples continue to practice the kachina (katsina) religion, a complex belief system in which hundreds of divine beings act as intermediaries between humans and God.

It is described as pervading everything that exists and as being the intermediary between the divine essence and matter and form.

Because he was believed to be the epitome of all that was divine, he alone was the intermediary between humankind and the gods whom he summed up in his complex personality.

It acts as intermediary between the divine and imperishable mens and the material and perishable idolum.

Similar in conception to More's Hylarchic Principle, Cudworth's Plastic Nature is a formative principle which acts as an intermediary between the divine and the natural world, maintaining the mundane operations of the physical universe.

In the final sentences of the Monarchia the temporal monarch becomes, like the aspiring intellect of the Convivio, the uniquely privileged beneficiary of a divine bounty which, "without any intermediary, descends into him from the Fountainhead of universal authority" [Mon. 3.16.15].

But one need not perceive reliquaries as intermediaries with the divine to be delighted and moved by this show.