This practical aim of religion (which Avicenna saw in the perspective of Aristotle's practical science) enabled him to appreciate the political and moral functions of divine revelation and account for its form and content.
I don't generally recite this traditional "bathroom prayer," but remembering that the body and its functions are a part of divine creation gives me a little bit more patience for my children as they learn to use their bodies.
Coleridge believed (if such a searching and puzzling mind can ever be summed up), that all creation, especially man himself, was suffused with God, and that imagination was a function of the divine power, a recovered memory of a higher state.
Doves hold the role of divine messengers in various cultures.
The sefirot function as vessels of Divine energy present in all of creation, including in us.
Among the most widely applied and most powerful of these techniques is forward genetic screening, in which (usually random) alterations are made in the genome of an organism, and the resulting phenotypes are studied to divine the function of the altered genes.
In the same sort of way, Kohák is taking the notion of divine presence, when it functions in religiously resonant ways, to be rooted in certain experiences of the world, so that someone who lacks those experiences will not have the same idea of divine presence.
This confusion reveals a duality of thought operating within her - that of archaic beliefs of her feminine function versus her divine need for self-realization.
A novel of divine inspiration.
The 15-minute piece's function, then, is essentially celebratory; it sets a 10th-century Latin text known as the Alleluia Sequence, in which each short section of divine praise ends with the word that forms the title.
