In fact, then as now, belief in divine intervention exercised more inspirational power than did organised religion.
Poloma says faith in divine revelation, prophecy and an outpouring of the Holy Spirit are hallmarks of the Pentecostal faith.
It is only by participating in this divine life that mortal, fragile human beings fulfil their potential.
According to the perennial philosophy, everything that happens in this world, everything that we can hear and see here below has its counterpart in the divine realm, which is richer, stronger and more enduring than our own.
You can take a highly mystical or spiritual view of that impressive power. (What else would it mean to be created in the divine image than that we can declare reality into existence out of nothing?) Or you can take a very naturalist, anthropological view.
Filipowski has stakes in several startups and subsidiaries that Divine later invested in.
Indeed modern Paganism is a reinvented religion, whose members seek the divine in nature.
Virgil was aware of the value of myth in establishing the divine antecedents of Augustus's expanding empire.
In trying to divine the direction of the U.S. economy we have a similarly useful signal, though one disregarded by most in the economic commentariat.
After years studying under a Hindu divine in the late 1950s, he had pronounced himself a maharishi (great seer) and set up the Spiritual Regeneration Movement.
This prepares the ground for the lively enactment to follow, in which the divine sage Narada importunes Shiva to contain the demon Darika, who is immune to defeat by mortals.
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.
We have learned, after the pretensions and passementerie of postmodernism, that less can be a relief, and that there may be something close to the divine in the conscientious and beautiful execution of a building's essential elements.
In his "Divine Comedy" of the 14th century, the sin he condemned most vigorously was "ignavia, " by which he meant sloth -- the failure to take responsibility, the failure to show moral courage and to change things.
What it means is that these differences do not matter, that no person is born intrinsically better than another, that a permanent aristocracy in the economic realm, or a divine right of kings in the political realm, are no part of the American system.
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.
Creativity is about religion , it reflects a reverence for divine creativity in the world around us.
In the warmer months, take a seat on the wide jasmine-scented veranda, while in winter it is divine to cosy up inside by the open fire.
Wine consumption may or may not have divine sanction in Georgia, but its production here goes back much earlier than the birth of Christ.
He was soon snapped up by top trainer Henry Cecil, and the partnership were on target at the Epsom Oaks in 2000 with Love Divine.
But Mormons continue to believe, for example, in direct and ongoing divine revelation, which is why the church's president, currently Thomas Monson, is considered a prophet and his quorum of church leaders are deemed apostles.
But rightly or wrongly, most of us are inclined to seek out the divine not in the moment when the Lord makes His face shine upon us, but in moments when God's grace can seem farthest away.
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Two Cap Gemini researchers, Pamela Cohen Kalafut and Jonathan Low, put together an array of data to come up with what they called a value creation index (VCI), which scores the companies in an attempt to divine which does the best job.
Two Cap Gemini researchers, Pamela Cohen Kalafut and Jonathan Low, cobbled together an array of data to come up with what they called a "value creation index" (VCI), which scores the companies, in an attempt to divine who does the best job with them.
The debacle cemented Krensavage's view that it pays better to look for value in drug firms than to divine the next blockbuster.
The S 4 tries to divine your intentions in two additional ways.
It is not about an effort to divine the truth in a serious matter -- which is why the tactic used in this operation was used, how it originated, and the consequences of using it.
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