Sentence examples for divine sanction from inspiring English sources

It was assumed that society was hierarchical and that each order had divine sanction.

What was apartheid, after all, but fear and loathing codified and backed by divine sanction?

His comparative approach made it clear that, in his view, no political system could claim divine sanction.

Consecrating one's possession of land with certain rituals was equal to establishing an order with divine sanction.

If America has divine sanction, as Mormons believe, it follows that American foreign policy has divine sanction too, and that it is answerable to its own (ie God's) rules, not those of other, by definition lesser and less blessed, nations.

The mistake absolutists make is to suppose, first, "that all values can be graded on one scale," in Berlin's words, and, second, that values must have divine sanction.

Like Trump, Osteen obsessively refers to the long, impressive record of his own economic good fortune as Exhibit A in the divine sanctioning of material favor.

While it is generally acknowledged that religion must affect human conduct in the world, some have maintained that there is no morality without religion, while others deny this claim on the ground that morality must remain autonomous and free of divine sanctions.

Divine sanctions are a constant feature of Locke's moral philosophy, as we've seen, and the compatibilist interpretation goes much further than the incompatibilist interpretation in capturing the nuances in Locke's moral philosophy.

So, conscience does not motivate in and of itself, nor does the rational apprehension of one's moral duty, but Locke identifies a species of pleasure distinct from divine sanctions that makes his notion of acting for conscious' sake perfectly consistent with his hedonism: to act for conscious' sake is to be motivated by, and take pleasure in, acting in accordance with one's moral duty.

Although the Aristotelian system viewed propositions such as the existence of a vacuum to be ridiculously untenable, belief in Divine Omnipotence sanctioned them as possible, whilst waiting for science to confirm them as true.