As a teacher, she is imperious, all too often gratuitously bitchy and in her exactitude, ferociously, uncompromisingly insistent on a divine standard.
While everyone is making up their minds about whether Klout is an utterly meaningless service or the divine "standard for influence" the world has been clamoring for, I had an interesting chat with Klout co-founder and CEO Joe Fernandez the other day at the F.ounders conference in Dublin, Ireland.
The Southern Baptist Convention officially condemned it as "a violation and perversion of divine standards".
The desire to live up to divine standards can help many religious individuals cultivate successful, lasting relationships and avoid harmful addictions, some research suggests.
But Mr. Chief Justice, the issue again is whether or not the law that they articulated on Nov. 21 is different than the law that existed on Nov. 7 and how the secretary of state, in exercising her discretion, was to divine the standard that would be established on Nov. 21.
The relationship is twofold; on the one hand, there is the bearing of the conception of the divine on standards of behaviour, and, on the other, there is the influence that the religious meaning has upon one's general attitude toward life.
Divine dominium is "the standard prior to and presupposition of all other dominium; if a creature has dominium over anything, God already has dominium over it, so any created dominium follows upon divine dominium" (De Dominio Divino I, ch. 3, p.16.18 22).
Unelected judges have no particular ability to divine what the moral standards are out there, and it's anti-democratic for them to impose their views.
I do not, and neither will the trial judge, know whether to count or not count ballots on the criteria used by the canvassing boards, what those criteria are, or to do so on the basis of standards divined by Judge Sauls.
But such an implication was unacceptable for those holding the standard understanding of divine omnipotence, which al-Ghazālī and other philosophers of the Ash'arite theological tradition thought to be essential to kalām.
After all, we might understand perfect goodness as the specific perfection of divine agency without taking the relevant standards to be the familiar welfare-oriented moral standards.
