Sentence examples for divine relations from inspiring English sources

It also serves as a metaphor for divine relations with Israel or with humans.

Our relations with a good joke are direct and even divine relations".

But Holkot objected that the divine Essence was in no way "really," "modally," "formally," "rationally," "convertibly," nor in any other way distinguished from the divine Persons or the divine relations of paternity, filiation and spiration.

It is with a view to providing a proper account of divine relations, he explains, that it is "necessary to examine the nature of relation with such diligence" (Quaestiones de divinis praedicamentis, q. 11, p. 12, 300 301).

Elevating human struggles to divine relations makes these struggles seem eternal, hallowed.

From the end of the New Kingdom (c. 1100 bce), names commonly refer to consultation of oracles during pregnancy, alluding to a different mode of human-divine relations.

In the New Kingdom these cities were remodeled as vast cosmic stages for the enactment of royal-divine relations and rituals.

So sexuality in divine-human relations has two aspects.

Rosenzweig designates the divine turning into relation with the world as creation; the divine turning into relation with the individual self as revelation; and the turning of the self into loving relation with the world as redemption.

Religion depended on knowledge and the correct practice of prayer, ritual, and sacrifice, not on faith or dogma, although Latin literature preserves learned speculation on the nature of the divine and its relation to human affairs.

Byzantine theologians opposed the addition, first on the ground that the Western church had no right to change the text of an ecumenical creed unilaterally and, second, because the Filioque clause implied the reduction of the divine persons to mere relations ("the Father and the Son are two in relation to each other, but one in relation to the Spirit").