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Again, how 'militarism' was reinterpreted and divined is highly indicative.
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Open censorship of such divines was thus not only undesirable, but might not in fact be necessary.
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The primal scenes 'are not reproduced as recollections, but have to be divined - constructed - gradually and laboriously from an aggregate of indications '.
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Fears were expressed by puritan divines that to thirst after natural knowledge was to run the risk of elevating reason at the expense of faith.
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Nevertheless, the majority of divines, though they spoke of sanctification preceding justification, did not mean that one worked for justification.
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The injunction that divines keep the pursuit of ancillary studies within proper bounds was not restricted to the domain of science.
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Even a cursory survey would reveal that such a solution was adopted by a large number of scientifically-minded divines.
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Like their physician and lawyer counterparts, university divines and country ministers might have made time to pursue their secular studies.
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Often the answer to a fearsome-looking question can be divined by a little patient thought.
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On the one hand, the scientific pursuits of many divines seemed sufficient proof for the harmonious coexistence of science and religion in the minds of practitioners.
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As for those divines who did seek publication, they invariably found it necessary to account for their action and demonstrate that their "transgression" was apparent, not real.
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Much can be divined about the symbolism underlying naming practice when the names given to children are compared with those of their parents, godparents, family members and other significant individuals.
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The boldest and most prominent liberal divines of the 1870s and 1880s tended to be pastors who were less subject to ecclesiastical discipline than were seminary professors.
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Indeed, the impossibility of divining from scratch the meanings that another person attaches to their words is more striking on the surface than comparable arguments for syntax.
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Perhaps he divines some benefit in the argument he adduced.
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Why send divines to train for their office and not ask them to volunteer for service in the police force?
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I think that it can be divined from the comments that.
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We have had a degree of moralising, no doubt stimulated by divines and ecclesiastics.
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Theologians, bishops, divines and churches differ on it.
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I hope that my own frivolity will be divined as having a serious purpose.
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Perhaps a flood of amusement at seeing me divining water might be permitted.
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The 93/95 programme was certainly problematic as was exemplified by the probing consultant's report divining its entrails.
Our universities produced scholars, divines, doctors and lawyers of world renown.
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However, he has not defined—or divined—that the nature of his consultation may place some people in an impossible position.
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We divined that many amendments in the group were consequential.
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I do not think that that office can be much more helpful at present than the water divining approach that has been mentioned.
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He, of course, divined the reason for its omission.
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Today we have heard many helpful and thoughtful speeches which will help us in divining the way forward.
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To the comments of the divines on both sides of the water was added recently the comments of an eminent judge here.
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The correct answer is the one he divined.
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I have no means of divining its collective will.
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We have produced great statesmen, great divines, great scholars, great scientists and great writers.
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Once the academics get into the number crunching, they will confirm what sensible observers have already divined.
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He has rightly divined the importance of trade unionism in regard to safety.
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We have no method of divining these things.
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I divined the intention absolutely rightly.
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We need a few weeks for some pretty good uninhibited examination of the record, so that the book is known, the crystal examined and the future divined.
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The postulation of such an intellectual ordering deriving from the divine light is essential.
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Because the individual, too, had his origin in divine personality, his dignity had to be protected and his sphere of freedom maintained.
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First and foremost, as we see here, the defining characteristic of jahiliyya is that it - rejects divine authority for human authority.
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Such a development could have been perceived as a challenge to divine subjectivity and would create a strong backlash.
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Having revealed divine love there is no need for him to go on revealing it.
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Only by divine intervention does the natural world have continued existence.
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The second hermeneutic asks the same question about the divine author.
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First it reduces divine knowledge of physically necessitated events to knowledge of divinely decreed events.
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Note that this does not mean that the purpose theorist must hold divine command theory (or any other religious ethics).
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If theists believe that divine commands are morally relevant, they are acting conscientiously in taking them into account.
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The evident differences in the human and divine natures seem to show, then, that veracity is not among the divine virtues.
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The via eminentiae or positiva is the metaphysical intuition by which divine attributes are derived positively from finite and contingent being.
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We should therefore think of them as ... the concepts of an unlimited mind : a divine mind.
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The move from natural object to divine author was straightforward, but an interpretation nonetheless.
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In the eighteenth century the main regions were the divine, worldly, and human regions.
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Using ceremonial gates, directional walls and other silent devices these spaces are denoted and divined.
Such an effect was not so easily generated as a consequence of contemplation of the power of the divine will.
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He saw evidence everywhere of a divine prescience.
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As she learns, spirits have always been the prime movers behind great art, whispering "divine messages - messages as brief as telegrams" (198; ch. 11).
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Worse still, they blatantly undermined the colonial mission by preaching divine healing.
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Either way, you will end up answering the question without appealing to divine fiats.
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Since the cosmos and its order were divine, theology and natural philosophy necessarily coincided.
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In secondary senses, ' divine ' is used to describe things somehow related to (perhaps very closely related to) things which are ' divine ' in the primary sense.
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The enthusiasts, who claimed to prophesy and to have direct divine inspiration, were increasingly seen in the seventeenth century as melancholies.
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Both of these place names associate the caves with ancestors, and the latter specifically with divine ancestors.
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The divine blueprint calls for building blocks of various kinds, each with a unique essence defined by the place the block occupies in the system.
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Why not, one might wonder, just accept them into the divine presence anyway ?
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Personality is argued for in ch. 23, omnipotence and omniscience in ch. 24, and divine goodness in ch. 26.
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There are two sorts of divine goodness, once again, that need to be distinguished here and both of these divide into two classes.
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We, however, either sought a sort of divine salvation in western civilization, or over-optimistically attempted to adopt only the good points while discarding the others.
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Through his yogic powers, he divined all that had taken place and was filled with rage.
In order to appeal to the spirit world, a diviner ("sangoma") must invoke the ancestors through divination processes to determine the problem.
The tithe was considered to be an arrangement by ' divine right ', which could not be altered.
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Examples from history are presented, confirming the principles of divine and natural right.
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Instead, his interviewees cared a lot more about divine healing.
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Now divine laws are perfect and perpetual, while human laws are unstable and in continual need of renewal.
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No one says divine speech is identical to divine revelation - only that is a type of revelation.
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A traditional reading of simplicity often maintains that the different divine perfections must entail one another.
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If divine ' supernatural ' intervention be ruled out, how could ' experiencing ' ever emerge ?
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Of course, if it is the community which is uniquely ' divine ', then one is using ' divine ' in a secondary sense.
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There is at least a threat of polytheism here - isn't being the ultimate reality a distinctively divine attribute ?
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Apparently, people can be free and at the same time virtuous only if they believe that the law under which they live is divine.
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Any divine self is both perfect and essentially omniscient.
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He will deserve a divine reward from me.
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Attempts to compensate the initial unlucky ones in a subsequent divine realm would create further unfairness.
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To be sure, he draws the line for divine defeat in a different place, but the fundamental idea is the same.
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We cannot conclude from this, however, that people in modern times are not making direct contact with a divine being at all.
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Now the thesis of divine simplicity, according to which there is no multiplicity of divine attributes, is not implied by monotheism.
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I also note that we will be able to say that in some fashion the divine persons have no beginning.
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Dominating the world view of both theologians is a belief in the ever present and ubiquitous involvement of the divine in human affairs.
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In moral contexts we encounter them whenever the agent lacks control, whatever the reason - human interference, metaphysical necessity, divine intervention, or the like.
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Defenders of property-identical divine-command theory can therefore reject the inference from premises (a) and (b) to (c).
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In other words, the foreknown future events happen to be unaffected causally by the divine advice, but in principle they physically could be affected.
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The divine command makes the type of act right or wrong.
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If the natural goodness would not differ, then divine commands override concerns of natural goodness when it comes to making moral judgements.
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If the world is a divine creation, then we should expect design to be a predominant feature of it.
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I am not conceiving of a world which would rule out the necessity of divine omnipotence or benevolence.
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The necessity of divine existence requires the inclusion of atemporal entities in the modal realist model of worlds.
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Both sides had found a way to describe the link, or unity, between divine and human nature.
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