Sentence examples similar to inferior divinity from inspiring English sources
The mortal part is assigned to humanity by inferior divinities, charged to do so by the supreme divinity; and the appetitive passions involved, if followed, are held to be responsible for the punishments that the soul will suffer during various periods of habitation in the other world and reincarnations in this one.
Nymph, in Greek mythology, any of a large class of inferior female divinities.
Read stories of divinity and divinely inspired beings.
For Marcion, the God of the Hebrew Bible Old Testamentt) is an inferior and harsh creator demiurge, author of the world and of humankind, who is nonetheless completely distinct from the supreme divinity, who manifested himself in Jesus and is a stranger to this world.
Demetrius of Lampe, a Byzantine diplomat recently returned from the West, ridiculed the way the verse was interpreted there, that Christ was inferior to his father in his humanity but equal in his divinity.
His divinity accrued to him from his office and was reaffirmed through rituals, but it was vastly inferior to that of major gods; he was god rather than man by virtue of his potential, which was immeasurably greater than that of any human being.
Divinity, philosophy, psychology.
I see beauty, divinity, hatred".
Were its technologies inferior?
Professor of Divinity, University of Durham.
