Sentence examples for terms of gods from inspiring English sources

Comte's "law of the three stages" maintained that human intellectual development had moved historically from a theological stage, in which the world and human destiny within it were explained in terms of gods and spirits; through a transitional metaphysical stage, in which explanations were in terms of essences, final causes, and other abstractions; and finally to the modern positive stage.

Some interpreted this only in terms of God's absolute power over the entire universe.

Influenced by the historical method of the 4th-century Antiochenes St. John Chrysostom and Theodore of Mopsuestia, Theodoret took issue with the allegorical trend in Alexandrian (Egypt) theology that stressed the divine-mystical element in Christ, addressing him exclusively in terms of God (monophysitism).

Once Christianity became more widespread, natural law could be understood in terms of God's directives in the Bible.

By understanding God's goodness in terms of God's being (as opposed to God's will alone), we come close to the non-voluntarist stand.

By contrast, considering the idea in terms of God, that is, in terms of the object it represents, we understand the representational feature in terms of (2b).

4. As a substitute for the role of causal necessitation, the free will problem can also be expressed in terms of God's foreknowledge.

Matters become more difficult for theological voluntarist views that aim to provide accounts of all moral notions in terms of God's will.

Quinn (1978) offers a theological voluntarist view on which all moral statuses are to be understood in terms of God's will.

Much analytic philosophy of religion has been done in Europe and the nations descended from Europe, so much of the discussion has been in terms of God as conceived of in the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions.

Of course the simplest answer to the question of how God is distinguished from the rest of the universe of beings is in terms of God's being its creator.