Sentence examples for god constitutes from inspiring English sources

In other words, the very same rationes ideales that God constitutes in Himself, by considering Himself variously imitable by creatures, can be considered in scientia pratica as the possible effects of His actions ("quaedam operabilia").

To establish that these ideas are in God, he then invokes an Augustinian principle, namely that 'nothing can act immediately upon the mind unless it is superior to it.' To make sense of this principle, one must envisage, as Augustine did, a hierarchy of being in which minds are higher than bodies and God constitutes the upper limit of moral perfection.

According to Plutarch the first God constitutes a unity of utter simplicity, a unity including all divine beings in it (De Iside 377F), and is identified with the Good and with Being (De E 393B D; see Opsomer 2009, 158 160).

But considering that "belief in God" constitutes a quasi-philosophical thinking, does not imply, for people, a strong religiosity or the adherence to strict dogma.

Thus, a theosophical equality is established between the whole of the people chosen by God, constituted into a kind of mystical body, and an aspect of the Divinity whence the solidarity and linked destiny of the two.

Still, even allowing the bare possibility of atheistic virtue was exceedingly controversial in Shaftesbury's day (not the least because it was commonplace to hold that duties to God constituted a significant part of virtue).

Rosenzweig argued that Cohen's concern in the Religion with the concrete individual, expressed in the idea of the individual's "correlation" with God, constituted a decisive break from the Ethics of Pure Will's concern with universal laws of human action (Rosenzweig 1924), and thus that Cohen's views in the Religion were importantly discontinuous with his views in his systematic ethics.

Quirinus, major Roman deity ranking close to Jupiter and Mars; the flamines (see flamen) of these gods constituted the three major priests at Rome.

The first play, a "god" play, constitutes the introduction; the second drama, or "warrior" play, is the introduction of the development section; the third, or "woman," play is the development of the development; the fourth, or "living person," play is the conclusion of the development; and the fifth, or "demon," play is the conclusion.

In lower court deliberations, a judge cited a previously rejected "religious freedom" defense which claimed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was invalid because it "contravenes the will of God," and constitutes an interference with the "free exercise of the Defendant's religion".

They proceed from God as an image of God and constitute the very flower of the universe.