They are mere government employees who provide a divine seal for choices made by the king and his coterie of emirs.
For drivers stuck in traffic on the Kennedy Expressway, the restoration of the dome atop St. Mary of the Angels Church in Bucktown is providing a divine distraction this summer, as workers scale the scaffolding and then descend gracefully under a blue banner that proclaims "SavetheDome.net," the century-old church's new Web site.
In my high school history class, Miss Hall taught us that America's separation from Europe and Asia by two oceans provided us a divine isolation and security from the scourge of war.
For him, they provided a taste of the divine, a clarion call from his creator.
A twofold view of moral causes, the natural and the divine, provided a philosophical axiom for state supervision of conduct in both the secular and the spiritual spheres.
Banna argued that Islam provided a complete solution, with divine guidance on everything from worship and spiritual matters to the law, politics and social organisation.
The word therefore represented Africa's dignity and place in the divine dispensation and provided a charter for free African churches and nations of the future.
On a beautiful summer night in the garden of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, chirping crickets provided a steady backbeat to the action of "Nanabozho," the Mettawee River Theater Company's puppet show drawn from myths of the Winnebago, an American Indian tribe.
In the case of divine foreknowledge, Auriol provided an alternative to the traditional position because he claimed that the common defense of contingency failed.
Finally, while the great monotheistic traditions provide a portrait of the Divine as supremely different from the creation, there is also an insistence on God's proximity or immanence.
