That horrific event, so full of hatred and violence, had given Rogers reason not to question the existence of God, as so many others had, but to express sheer wonder at divine grace.
A slight modification of the compatibility account, however, better captures the motivational aspect of Locke's rationalistic account: Locke does, at times suggest that rational agents are not only obligated, but motivated, by sheer recognition of the divine authority of moral law.
Reminders of the divine achieved by sheer human effort are all over the lobby.
Schlosser's readers (and he deserves a great many) will be struck by how frequently the people he cites attribute the absence of accidental explosions and nuclear war to divine intervention or sheer luck rather than to human wisdom and skill.
The answer, I think, has much to do with the sheer scale of Wagner's canvas: like Dante's Divine Comedy, Joyce's Ulysses, the Iliad and the Shakespearean tragedies, the Ring is cosmic in its reach.
Pascal reacted against this perception; he admired Epictetus as a moralist but regarded it as sheer arrogance to believe that the human psyche is part of the divine and can be perfected by one's own efforts.
The divine Burberry show will start a high-street trend for the semi-sheer lace pencil skirt, you mark my words.
