Republicans worship him with religious affection, with 92% finding no fault serious enough to undermine their confidence in him, according to one national poll last week.
Mr. Vargas Llosa said the anecdote from the Trujillo era that most impressed him described how peasants would bring their daughters to the dictator as gifts -- a demonstration, he said, of the almost religious affection they had for someone they regarded as "an incarnate divinity".
Roget's book was organized not alphabetically but thematically with families of related words appearing under the kind of abstract, Platonic subject headings dear to the hearts of literate Victorians, starting with "Existence" and ending with "Religious Affections".
Edwards' defense of the revivals and criticisms of its excesses culminated in his first major treatise, the Religious Affections (1746).
(The subjective side is extensively treated in a number of works of the 1730s and 1740s, however, the most important of which is Religious Affections).
By the time he was a traveling student seeing the world in Germany, England, and Spain his "intellectual materialism" was firmly established with little change in his religious affections.
In A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, Edwards aims to correct both a passionless Christianity and a revivalist "enthusiasm" that confuses emotional intensity with the work of the Holy Spirit.
Their love is the basis of a new "spiritual sense" whose "immediate object" is "the beauty of holiness" — a "new simple idea" that can't "be produced by exalting, varying or compounding" ideas "which they had before," and that truly "represents" divine reality (Religious Affections, 1746 and True Virtue, 1765; Edwards 1957–, vol. 2, 205, 260, and vol. 8, 622).
A treatise about religious affections by the American preacher and philosopher Jonathan Edwards emphasised that affections were movements of the intellectual part of the soul: Holy affections are not heat without light, but evermore arise from some information of the understanding, some spiritual instruction that the mind receives, some light or actual knowledge.
Religious shrines, they fear, will divert their spiritual affections away from God and toward the humanly constructed artifacts.
Every dwarf has individual character traits, religious beliefs, affections, moods, and skills, and every limb and tissue layer of their bodies is modeled and tracked.
