When they try to divine human desires and happiness, mainstream economists look much more at what people do rather than at what they say.
Investing in an industry that is so vulnerable to both divine and human intervention is not without its risks.
Joe was in good spirits, considering his fate, though I could still tell there was a hope that his pending sentence would somehow not come to pass through either divine or human intervention.
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.
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.
ECONOMIST: Albert Hofmann, chemist, died on April 29th, aged 102
As the title suggests, the themes of this work of fiction are the old ones: the vanity of human striving, divine punishment for overweening confidence in our technological achievement, the futility of human effort in a world ruled by indifferent nature.
His intricately ambiguous drama evokes the fearsome mysteries beneath the surface of life and the diverting illusions that its masterminds, human or divine, project.
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.
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.
It is only by participating in this divine life that mortal, fragile human beings fulfil their potential.
Without ethics and spirituality, attained in light of the teachings of Divine prophets, justice, freedom and human rights cannot be guaranteed.
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.
The greatest challenge facing the contemporary Muslim world is to bring our limited, human understanding of Islamic law into harmony with its divine spirit -- in order to reflect God's mercy and compassion, and to bring the blessings of peace, justice and tolerance to a suffering world.
While its revelatory inspiration is divine, Islamic law is man-made and thus subject to human interpretation and revision.
The bishop's solution to this problem which goes back to 19th-century thinkers such as Matthew Arnold is to think of the Bible as poetry rather than dogma: as it cannot give you literal access to the divine, it is only as metaphor that it can satisfy a human longing for the transcendental.
But the good old human being is guaranteed to just crawl along, part animal, part divine, a bag of contradictions, hardwired and malleable, but, mostly, just stuck in time.
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