Sentence examples for obtaining grace from inspiring English sources

During the Protestant Reformation, Swiss Christian leaders Huldrych Zwingli and John Calvin rejected the role of the sacraments in obtaining grace.

His rejection of the sacraments as means of obtaining grace and as forms of intervention between the soul and God underlay the deepened conception of other Reformation leaders such as Bullinger, Pietro Martire Vermigli, and John Calvin.

The revolutionary theology that Luther thereby introduced held that only personal faith can obtain divine grace, rejecting any intercession between an individual and God.

Archaeological digs have uncovered globular clay vessel flutes (xun), tuned stone chimes (qing), and bronze bells (zhong), and the word gu, for drum, is found incised on Shang oracle bones (turtle shells and ox bones used by rulers for ritual divination and sacrifice to obtain the grace of their ancestors).

On 20 December 1348 he was at Avignon as an envoy of his university, and while there he obtained a grace regarding his own benefice holding from Pope Clement VI.

Grace obtained a master's degree from a prestigious foreign university, and she managed the human resource department of a large international corporation.

Famiglietti's data set, obtained from the GRACE satellite (no relation to us) indicates that groundwater "is being pumped for irrigation at rates that are not sustainable if current trends continue...leading to declining water tables, water shortages, decreasing crop sizes and continued land subsidence".

Graphs have been obtained with the Grace program [38] and images have been created using the VMD [39] and Chimera [40] packages.

The rulers, therefore, were encouraged to attribute their worldly successes to Shiva's grace; the grace was obtained through devotional exercises offered to Shiva and was likely regarded as the guarantee of a superior status in the life after death.

5 6 14 Discontinuation of ACEI was defined as no refills within 90 days after the last filled prescription which allowed a lenient grace period for patients obtaining late refills.

Two whole seals, as yet unfrozen and obtained en route, graced the top of this impressive pile.