Sentence examples for true divine from inspiring English sources

But it is also Dante's purpose to show the means by which he triumphed over his personal disaster, thus making his poem into a true "divine comedy".

In 1520 he secured permission from the city's governing council to preach the "true divine scriptures," and the resulting sermons helped to stir revolts against fasting and clerical celibacy that initiated the Swiss Reformation (1522).

Also important in this strain of thought is the theme of the dispossession/repossession of the true, divine self.

Firstly, the true divine law is the one whose beliefs do not contradict any one of the necessary principles of divine law.

For this reason, one of the questions that engages him is the method of distinguishing between the true divine law, meaning the Torah of Moses, and a false religion that also claims to be of divine origin, meaning Christianity.

The warlike Mars is not, as such, a true Epicurean god, but a popular perversion of the true divine nature, resulting from people's projection of their own angry and competitive temperament onto this ideal being.

"But there is no way what the Germans are saying can be true without divine intervention or a belief in miracles," he said.

The myth also draws on the biblical theme of humanity as formed in the image of God (Genesis 1 26 27); true or divine humanity, however, is this spiritual family brought into being in the realm of perfection as the spirit's image.

True, the divine Not-Other is not one of the creatures, but in a different way than they are different from one another.

In what became known as the "Epistle to Yemen" after widespread circulation throughout the Middle East, Maimonides claimed that Islam and Christianity were but distortions of the "true and divine religion, revealed to us through Moses, chief of the former as well as of the later prophets".

Bonaventure understood that the step from a true proposition to divine truth is a large one, so he advocates a moderate illuminationist position, one that depends on both divine and created causes.