Sentence examples for efficacy of prayers from inspiring English sources
Kevin Timpe (2005) argues that adherents of simple foreknowledge or timeless knowledge and Molinists have the resources to explain the efficacy of prayers about the past, but open theism does not.
1117 c.113131) was a popular French religious teacher, who is called a heresiarch (leader of a heretical movement) by the Roman Catholic Church because he criticized infant baptism, opposed the erecting of churches and the veneration of crosses, opposed the doctrine of transubstantiation, and denied the efficacy of prayers for the dead An angry mob killed him in or around the year 1131.
Aged six, Florence was making graphs on the efficacy of prayer; aged nine, she was reading Homer in Greek.
The efficacy of prayer is founded on the concept of koto-dama, the spiritual power that resides in words.
Trying to measure the efficacy of prayer as a medical treatment obscures the more relevant issue of ensuring that health care providers meet patients' spiritual needs.
On the basis of all of the facts, the pertinent authority and a further belief in the efficacy of prayer, we affirm.
He invented a pair of submarine spectacles that permitted him to read while submerged in his bath, and stirred up controversy by using statistics to investigate the efficacy of prayer.
There's a simple way to judge the efficacy of prayer: compare the batting averages of those players who cross themselves on approaching the plate with those who don't (The Way We Live Now, Jim Holt, Nov. 7).
He set out to test the efficacy of prayer by composing a list of desirable outcomes, having nothing to do directly with himself, and determined to try to pray them into reality by a certain date.
