Investing in an industry that is so vulnerable to both divine and human intervention is not without its risks.
Take one example: the Christian tradition to which hundreds of millions of Catholics, Orthodox and Anglicans are heirs holds dear the belief that Jesus Christ was both fully man and fully God, a single person with two natures, divine and human.
Placing five conversing pairs people, gods, spirits, and a Huillet-like muse inspiring a Straub-like Hesiod in Italian landscapes seemingly untouched for millennia, the directors describe a colossal arc from mythic prehistory to the present day and depict the wary mutual dependence of divine and human affairs.
But it is the Love whose nature is expressed in good actions, marked by self-control and justice, at the human and divine level that has the greatest power and is the source of all our happiness.
When they try to divine human desires and happiness, mainstream economists look much more at what people do rather than at what they say.
Without ethics and spirituality, attained in light of the teachings of Divine prophets, justice, freedom and human rights cannot be guaranteed.
The faith's official theology, after wrestling with the different senses in which Christ was human and divine, had crystallised with the pronouncement in the early fifth century that Mary was Theotokos, the Mother of God: the person whose body was the miraculous locus of a unique cosmic event, the coming together of the Creator and the created, physical world.
And the sense it had given him, of union with nature and of the spiritual basis of all creation, convinced him that he had found a sacrament for the modern age: the antidote to the ennui caused by consumerism, industrialisation and the vanishing of the divine from human life.
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While its revelatory inspiration is divine, Islamic law is man-made and thus subject to human interpretation and revision.
His intricately ambiguous drama evokes the fearsome mysteries beneath the surface of life and the diverting illusions that its masterminds, human or divine, project.
She praises the best of contemporary theology for the way it manages, like the mystics of early Christianity and Islam, to stress the limits of human discourse in addressing the divine.
And therefore it's that voice from the side, the voice that speaks not to party politics and immediate interest, but to the innermost soul of the human within us, the divine within us, which actually succeeds because it has no power at all.
When that day comes, the ultimate promise of all divine religions will be fulfilled with the emergence of a perfect human being who is heir to all prophets and pious men.
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