Sentence examples for divinity from inspiring English sources

The inorganic and insentient character of a box is inadequate as a model for divinity, he thinks, and divine inclusiveness is never like the inclusion of theorems in a set of axioms, as it might be for certain idealists.

Some modern readings of the New Testament go on to argue that "the historical Jesus" of the first three gospels is not really portrayed as divine at all; and that the divinity of Christ, which is so emphasised by John and Paul, represents a later doctrine that was artificially bolted on to the basic story of Jesus's life.The pope will have none of this.

According to an analysis by a divinity professor and an education specialist known for designing courses on "traditional morality", the photographs showed an "immoral transgression incompatible with conducting educational functions".

We'll operate as a democracy, this symbolic configuration hints, yet some force of divinity will animate us.

Near the beginning of "God is Not Great" he describes his rebellion when confronted with an effusive divinity teacher at school who pointed to the beauty of hedgerows in the English countryside as evidence of His creation.

The idea of a passing age seemed to be confirmed with the death on June 16th of dowager Empress Nagako, aged 97, the widow of Emperor Hirohito, who himself killed off the idea of royal divinity.

Indeed, from the perspective of the American religion, as Mr Bloom explains it, a moral code based on something as debased as "nature" offensively denies our inherent divinity.

She has refashioned mere nature to better reflect the hard-won truth of the divinity within.Ms Jenner, it bears mentioning, is also a committed Christian.

Like radio waves, you've just got to tune it in.In a magisterial study, "The American Religion", Harold Bloom maintains that the core of the inchoate American faith is the idea of a "Real Me" that is neither soul nor body, but an aspect of the divinity itself, a "spark of God".

On the contrary, he saw the law of Moses as God-given and supremely important and it was only because of his own divinity that he had the right to reinterpret that law.

Rationalist though he was, Johnson always wore the "touch piece" bestowed on him by the queen, whom he later hazily recalled as "a lady in diamonds and a long black hood".The practice of "touching" the sick, with its potent associations of magic and semi-divinity, flourished among the medieval and renaissance kings, but seemed to have died out by the beginning of the 19th century.