"Everybody now has it in their head that every human being has some fundamental God-given right to move wherever they want.
Giordano Bruno in De monade, numero et figura liber (1591; "On the Monad, Number, and Figure") described three fundamental types: God, souls, and atoms.
In his refreshing perspective Ibn Ezra finds his place within a list of rabbis who taught the fundamental doctrines that God is not a body; that God does not manifest any of the properties of bodies; and that all problematic biblical verses must be (re)interpreted in order to conform to these doctrines.
The philosopher René Descartes's doubting, rationalist approach to the fundamental questions of God's existence and man's relationship to God undermined the rigid adherence to revealed truths propounded by religious orthodoxy.
The fundamental distinction between God and creatures is that creatures have a real composition of essence and existence, whereas God's essence is his existence.
The Israelite faith looked back to the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament) for its fundamental revelation of God.
I start by saying – and this is the fundamental thing – that God's mercy has no limits if you go to him with a sincere and contrite heart.
Shylock has a wonderful riff, concerning Strulovitch's art dealing, about why words are, for Jews, always more fundamental than images: "God had spoken the world into existence — Let it be — he had not painted it.
By rejecting the fundamental difference between God and world, pantheism threatens all the other oppositions that stem from it: light versus darkness, male versus female, and humans versus every other organism.
"Given — and this is the fundamental thing — that God's mercy has no limits, if He is approached with a sincere and repentant heart," Pope Francis wrote, "the question for those who do not believe in God is to abide by their own conscience.
"Given – and this is the fundamental thing – that God's mercy has no limits, if He is approached with a sincere and repentant heart," the pope wrote in a letter to the secular paper La Repubblica, "the question for those who do not believe in God is to abide by their own conscience.
