And always, at the end of a visit: "Would it be all right if I prayed with you?" The health care chaplain will touch a forehead, hold a hand and quietly pray worries to the Divine, speaking with inflections that, as needed, may be Pentecostal, Roman Catholic, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim.
It was in that desert that they heard the Divine speak, instructing them how to live in relationship to themselves and all creation with awe, reverence and gratitude.
And why should we avoid the "familiar spirits?" The Hebrew word is yid'onim, which the commentators understand to be the name of a bone through which a diviner speaks.
Generally speaking, feminist theologians have been friendly to process thought, seeing Whitehead and Hartshorne as articulating ideas about the divine that speak to feminist concerns (Christ 2003, 4 5).
The "Divine Language" spoken in the film by Leeloo is a fictional language with only 400 words, invented by Besson.
At its best, the Christian tradition asks us to listen for where the Divine is speaking, in whatever surprising places we may find it.
In this sense, prophets belong to the divine order and speak on its behalf, just as the messenger in the sage's parable comes from India with the king's letter and appropriate gifts because he belongs to that kingdom and was duly commissioned by its ruler.
I play a guitar but music stinks I sit in nature typical oinks typical bahs, neighs & whinny typical doodle bloooo ka-thunk ka-thunk In me speaks the divine menagerie the nectar the blood on my hands Girls Girls Girls!
Only that Jew who was capable of hearing the divine voice of revelation speaking and commanding through a particular law or practice, could relate to such a law or practice as an integral, meaningful part of her Jewish life, rather than as an obsolete ritual demanding rigid, rote obedience.
The reason may be that sometimes Plutarch speaks of the divine creator in the strict sense, as an intellect, and some other times in the wider sense, as an animated intellect (one in a soul).
