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Sentence Examples A subject in itself is cabalistic meditation, in which we attempt to climb up the tree to attain union with divinity. This is the full realization of divinity, gently fading into the Absolute in one eternal moment. Despite the involvement of Freeman, not enough is made of his blessed divinity. Saying that God assumes human form makes God small, diminishing both His unity and His divinity. We have within us a soul or a spark of inner divinity that is absolutely real and uncompromised. They're not philosophical concepts, beliefs or descriptions of an ultimate truth or divinity. Indeed, when we attain higher consciousness through spiritual disciplines, we actually see or perceive divinity all around. Secondly, being raised up to heaven is again no proof of divinity or greatness. His life was for all, bringing everyone in his midst to purity, upliftment and divinity. And if they come from God, then it is a dark and awesome divinity, pulling us towards our fate, kicking and screaming. Then we have a history of divinity bestowed on idols, rivers and trees by men. Frankincense, which was burned in the shrines of numerous deities, represented divinity. Much like Taoism, divinity is divided between male and female, the Lord and Lady. Human history, particularly the history of the twentieth century, renders faith in an innate human divinity difficult for many of us. I think it is time to spread the word about human divinity and the universality of the spiritual path. The idols that have originally been introduced to serve as devotional media had got elevated to the status of divinity. For the pagan, the alienation from divinity is so palpable and painful that it must be overcome at all costs, even if ethics are the price. We don't need a directive or a definable god to feel the presence of divinity. True, he was a confirmed atheist, who had no patience for divinity, prayers or rituals. But in 1973, Case's career took a sharp turn when he decided to study divinity at the Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena. Show More Sentences When I give a fellow an honorary doctor of divinity, it's just a little piece of paper. In 1984 he moved to Canada, where he did a masters in divinity and licentiate in moral theology at the University of Toronto. John Rogers, the first martyr, was a lecturer in divinity at St Paul's Cathedral, London. In several universities, divinity schools were among the most vibrant sources of ideas and sustained engagement. His love affair with The Stand began in 2000 when the comic came to Edinburgh to study divinity. Queasiness at the sight of blood curtailed a medical career, and Darwin went to Cambridge to study divinity and join the church. Ukrainian Orthodox clergy are educated in divinity schools such as the Kyiv Theological Academy. Going on to study divinity at the University of St Andrews, Playfair undertook his theological studies at St Mary's College, St Andrews. Seminaries, schools of theology, divinity schools, and churches must face the pressing and rising presence of diversity. He received his master of divinity degree from Moravian Theological Seminary in 1988 and was ordained that same year. In the Church Donne held several livings and the divinity readership at Lincoln's Inn. But we must recall that in approaching the altar we receive our Lord, body and blood, soul and divinity. This humanity revealed the divinity which is the splendour of the three persons. The Prince was so sold on his own divinity that he used to make the longest, most seriously overblown entrances to boxing arenas in ring history. It was a time when grown-ups made divinity in stifling hot kitchens and kids caught fireflies in Mason jars at dusk. At Oxford there are four bedels, representing the faculties of law, medicine, arts and divinity. As is the way with most messiahs, only the poor, the insane and the very young recognize his divinity. In all spiritual traditions, spirit or divinity is said to be immanent as well as transcendent. While fundamentalists are surely bibliolaters, mainline Protestants by contrast have usurped Scripture's divinity. This means, for example, that one may not say that the divine person performed miracles, since one may not separate divinity and humanity. Show More Sentences But the tutelary divinity here is neither Thalia, the muse of comedy, nor Melpomene, the muse of tragedy, but Morpheus, the god of sleep. But what's different about this human depiction of God, this notion of monotheism, is that it transfers real material scarcity to divinity. And for me, she was the greatest gift because she understood my soul and my spirit as an artist, even though I was a divinity student. Saying too little about the divinity of Christ and his unique singularity within history is the risk involved. So divinity being infinite, unbounded, eternal, beyond space and time, is not a he or a she, it's a field of intelligence. This is a city that rarely sleeps, that never seems to rest in its quest for pleasure, in its endeavour at enterprise, in its inherent divinity. This boy monk had a halo around him, a nimbus of purity, divinity, and godliness. This is a crusade in the service of the divinity of capital, a vengeful, jealous god before which no other god may stand. Beneath his shiny pate and bulbous nose is true divinity, a noble being of omnipotent powers and perceptions. It could perfectly well be a professor of divinity, or the headmaster of a public school. In wax, he chisels divinity and has a series of works representing the myriad forms of Ganesha apart from Hanuman, Saraswathi and Venkateshwara. Blackwell has degrees in physics and in divinity, and practical musical experience in directing a church choir. The traditional repertoire of most classical dance styles is strongly based on the stories and characteristics surrounding divinity in Hinduism. In addition, both groups worship an earth divinity that the Igbo call Ala and the Ibibio call Isong. The constituents of divine knowledge essentially represent the inherent divinity of man. Hindu gods are also frequently represented with a third eye in the middle of their foreheads, representing their divinity. After his re-sits at a crammer, he journeyed north to Edinburgh University to study divinity. Creamy and rich and thick divinity and taffy and fudge along with all kinds of rainbow-colored candy and cakes are also for sale. They believed themselves descended from demigods whose divinity had degraded through centuries of interbreeding with lesser races. We know several such fake god-men and claimants of divinity amongst humans. Show More Sentences The fact that they changed the English word from godship in the 1969 version to divinity in the 1985 version is also revealing. I believe that this divinity, is a result of a puissance that is present in every particle, the rhythm of creation. It is the only time in the Gospels where Christ's divinity is revealed to the apostles. And it is crucial to see that the image of his humanity is not a disguise covering the truer reality of his divinity. It would be one in which no trace of divinity remained, either in the form of a divinized world or a divinized self. Again mathematics was his favourite subject but he also excelled at divinity. Having been an ordained pastor with a doctorate in divinity and a Master's degree in biblical studies, he knew what had taken place. Mountains contain divinity or kami and are sources of necessary water. Barrow had taken an oath to study divinity when he was admitted as a fellow, and, after briefly studying medicine, he began studying divinity again. When meeting a scientist who also believes in divinity, the defiantly atheist New York Times science writer Natalie Angier starts popping mental veins. Then, if one understands Brahma to be the transcendent aspect of divinity, the perception of Sarasvati as immanent accords well with Her being His shakti. He was ordained an Anglican priest in 1960 and earned a bachelor of divinity in 1965 and a master of theology in 1966 from King's College in London. So some authorities hold that the hypaethral opening in the centre of an ordinary Greek house was the prototype of that in the house of the divinity. I ended up with something like transcendental animistic chaos with stress on the importance if imminent divinity when I was done with it, which has worked well for me so far. The practice of theurgy, then, becomes a way for the soul to experience the presence of the divinity, instead of merely thinking or conceptualizing the godhead. I think the timocratic structure of divinity in early Greek myth might be quite a good thing to apply to the tale of Eris, the apple and the Trojan War. His tall, funnel-shaped headdress has two horns of divinity at the front. Unlike his predecessors and most Lutheran clergy, Hanson earned his first divinity degree at a non-Lutheran institution, Union Theological Seminary in New York. He revolted from the Roman Church and by 1613-14 was again a Protestant, later becoming a doctor of divinity at Cambridge and chaplain to the king. Demeter was also an acropolis divinity at Lepreon, Mytilene, and Iasos, but it is not likely that she played a central political role in any of these cities. Show More Sentences The pagan insisted that divinity was in trees and in all of nature. Opposing all forms of Arianism, which denied Christ's divinity, Athanasius taught that Christ the Son, and likewise the Holy Spirit, were of the same being as God the Father. She mounts a scholarly exposition of the widely held doctrines of Trinity, original sin, and divinity of Christ, relegating them to later accretions in history. As dean of Aberdeen University's arts and divinity faculty, Torrance is seen as an intellectual, a heavyweight theologian and the strongest competition. The declaration seems to put the gender of the one being ordained on pretty much the same level as the divinity of Christ or the real presence in the Eucharist. Death, a total vision for Masson, held sway over all things, and it became a tutelary divinity as he attempted to purify his soul and purge his memory of horrible events. In the battle between science and divinity, divinity came off second best. He begins to feel the same divinity in him and all others around him. He holds a Master of divinity from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and a Master of Theology from Emory University. He considers the beauty of athleticism and wonders if it is proof of the existence of some divinity. As with any divinity, more personalized dedications show variation from these norms, and Demeter's votives may not be identical at every sanctuary. Her final plea that he entreat divine grace on her behalf can only be read, given the pains she took to equate divinity with intellect, as a request for intellectual freedom. After his condemnation, all those who drew back from the most robust affirmations of Christ's full divinity tended to be branded Arians by their opponents. The Arians, who denied the full divinity of Christ, were spotlighted at the Council of Nicaea, and most of the council's work focused on accurately defining Jesus' nature. An Irish Protestant priest who faced being defrocked for publicly stating he did not believe in the divinity of Christ last night announced his resignation. His blood, soul, and divinity become present by concomitance, their inseparable connection with his body, not precisely because of the words of consecration. The next time I see her I fully expect to be held at arms length by a series of heavies and faceless people who will deny me access to this divinity. Data eclipsed God in 1973, and its continuing ascendance suggests a culture that treats it as a surrogate divinity. Apophasis is really the negation of rationality as a tool for approaching divinity and is the choice of the contemplative way of the mystic path. Bogomilists rejected the divinity of Jesus, the worship of images, baptism, the ornamentation of churches, etc. Show More Sentences Cynolatry is tolerant so long as the dog is not denied an equal divinity with the deities of other faiths. He refused the request of Alexandrian Greeks to dedicate a temple to his divinity, saying that only gods may choose new gods. The text addresses issues ranging from the divinity of Christ to the proper form for the Lord's Supper. Unitarians believe in the moral authority but not necessarily the divinity of Jesus. The doctorate has long existed in the UK as, originally, the second degree in divinity, law, medicine and music. King's opened in October 1831 with the cleric William Otter appointed as first principal and lecturer in divinity. Thomas Tighe, he won a scholarship to St John's College, Cambridge, where he studied divinity and ancient and modern history. He argued that Jesus made several implicit claims to divinity, which would logically exclude that claim. In class, he hated mathematics, was fair at classics, and excelled at English and divinity. His followers are completely committed to their beliefs in and of Brian's divinity. God the creator, having divinity by nature, offers each person participation in divinity by cooperatively accepting His gift of grace. Mary is thus called the 'Theotokos' or 'Bogoroditsa' as an affirmation of the divinity of the one to whom she gave birth. In 1840 Chalmers was unsuccessful in applying for the chair of divinity at the University of Glasgow. Because the established Church of Scotland controlled the divinity faculties of the universities, the Free Church set up its own colleges. St John's College was refounded by Cardinal James Beaton under the name St Mary's College in 1538 for the study of divinity and law. The school initially started out as a society for learned men in the fields of canon law, the arts and divinity. The appearance of a comet during games in his honour was taken as confirmation of his divinity. No one enters it except bound with a chain, as an inferior acknowledging the might of the local divinity. Since divinity is intellectual, and all intellect returns into itself, this myth expresses in allegory the essence of divinity. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities, seminaries, and schools of divinity. Show More Sentences Anyone who worships a divinity other than the Self is called a domestic animal of the gods in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. This divinity and its creaturely actualizations would counter the love of power with the power of love. With Ramesses II, new ideas about the divinity of the king came to be expressed in this form as well. The Paracelsians and Helmontians were clear advocates of examining the book of nature experimentally in order to understand divinity. When it comes to belief in such a divinity, my own personal argument is kind of the inverse to Pascal's Wager. That covenant can now be seen as setting the pitch for the catechism's pronaos and as offering the master key to the body of Hammond's practical divinity. Several prominent kabbalists viewed the zimzum as a voluntary divine process intended to make divinity more approachable to the created realms and to the people. The debate now centred on the divinity of their personal law. The reciter's personal views upon the divinity of the aspects considered sacred in a predictated text of an oath may or may not be taken in to account. Almost daily the 'just published' bookshelves display new works Darwinizing divinity, divinizing Darwinism, or, as with the creationists, deprecating both. Although Herodotus' overall emphasis lay on the actions and characters of men, he also attributed an important role to divinity in the determination of historical events. If it be supposed that the divinity of Christ was unknown to the apostles till the day of Pentecost... we have no account of any such discovery having been made. In a few cases, a female divinity mates with a mortal man, as in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, where the goddess lies with Anchises to produce Aeneas. In Vietnam and Ghana, among other places, whales hold a sense of divinity. There were no separate seminaries, law schools, or divinity schools. In the subject rankings for 2017, Durham was ranked 3rd in the world for theology, divinity and religious studies, 4th for archaeology and 7th for geography. These two deities are sometimes viewed as facets of a greater pantheistic divinity, which is regarded as an impersonal force or process rather than a personal deity. Some controverters in divinity are like swaggerers in a tavern. Macquarrie was a philosophical giant, translator and explicator of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger and one of the most esteemed divinity professors at Oxford. Examples from Classical Literature Dagon, too, is held by some authorities to have been purely an Amorite divinity. The belief in the sacredness or divinity of the human body has led to the search for divinatory signs in its parts. And so what's to become of art since there's no belief in the divinity or even in beauty? Besides, is not the yearning for the divine simply a desire to behold the divinity? Learn hence, ye swains, to fear the Gods, and to reverence the divinity of virtue. He put every one right in politics, divinity, medicine, exegesis of Scripture. The duty to extirpate and destroy it is admitted even by our doctors of divinity. Upon the walls were painted two enormous serpents, sacred reptiles which protected the altar of Fornax, the culinary divinity. The opinion of my divinity assisted my arms and subdued all nations before me, from the Granicus to the Ganges. It must have been hard for a king's minister to believe in the divinity of the monarch he was gulling. In consequence of a vision seen in a dream he had the divinity brought from Sinope, on the shores of Pontus, to this town. Allowing for its standpoint the book is not virulent, and is a respectable piece of hortatory divinity on its own side. He had only one dogma, his own divine sonship and the divinity of his mission. On the third day in Easter week, the 'spital sermon is preached by a doctor in divinity. To the rest of his court as well as to his people, the Mikado remains an invisible, dumb, and inapproachable divinity. Pantheism lends itself to this notion of an indeterminate and indeterminable disanthropomorphized divinity. So the instructorship was transferred to a divinity student who was casually looking into science, and Algarcife was dismissed. Her crest is the straight Rajput sword, the khanda, for an account of the worship of which very powerful divinity read Tod. We set up a monarch, too, King Cotton, and hedged him with a divinity surpassing that of earthly potentates. With her maidenhood, departed the last vestige of her divinity, her strength. Show More Sentences The tutelary divinity was generally a typification of the national character. Herbert had passed as shiningly in mods and divinity and all the rest of it as Jack had passed before the Marine Board. All the divinity of a god beams through this unrivalled perfection of form. He was the special patron of the priests, who, in return, were unstinting in their insistence upon his divinity. Parenthood thus brings forth our divinity and is at once a cross and an upliftment. Licet UTI alieno vitio is a proposition as false in politics as it is in divinity. The man or the divinity we venerate at nineteen we instinctively bow to at forty. The divinity of a sessions and the inspiration of the Old Bailey are undeniable! Another daughter of the Paphian divinity presides at the shrine of rouge et noir. Phidian or Michael Angelesque forms gather their own peculiar associations of divinity or power. The short inscriptions of the pyramidion bear the oval of the king and the name of the divinity. Such names as these have reference to Odins divinity as creator, arranger and ruler of gods and men. Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them. There were no divinity, but by reason of compassion for revenges are brutish and mortal. There again was castanet, a partisan leader in a voluminous peruke and with a taste for controversial divinity. He was like one transformed, the cynosure of all initiated in the mysteries of this divinity. With dance and song the Delian maidens still hailed the divinity of Lt's son. As in later periods, their names are there preceded by the determinative for divinity. Sacred and inspired divinity, the Sabaoth and port of all men's labours and peregrinations. He studied divinity, and only the dissuasion of friends kept him from entering the ministry. Show More Sentences This divinity is sometimes identified with Tyche, sometimes with Ananke. The finest statue of this divinity was that by Polycletus at Argos. No ascription of divinity to men is found among the Hebrews. Officialdom is their divinity and respectability their key to life. Everything happens quite involuntarily, as if in a tempestuous outburst of freedom, of absoluteness, of power and divinity. Of the former divinity, Rawlinson relates an instructive myth. Here stood a statue of the patron divinity of the palaestra. Such are the miracles upon which the divinity of Rome reposes! To say the truth, she had read much English divinity, and had puzzled more than one of the neighbouring curates. I go home in a state of unspeakable bliss, and waltz in imagination, all night long, with my arm round the blue waist of my dear divinity. What of the spirit, the resident divinity of so fair a temple? He blended the complemental conceptions of divinity and humanity. You represented a divinity, beautiful, disdainful, inconstant. Oh that I had to learn astrology, or demonology, or school divinity! I worshipped the divinity, even while I attempted to profane the altar. Surely some divinity provided for us always in the most stressful hours. One contradiction is fatal to the claim of inerrancy and divinity. Only in this way could its inerrancy and divinity have been preserved. She thought of Hyacinthus as she might have thought of a divinity. For if the world failed them, did not the divinity remain to them? Show More Sentences DuRga, a Hindu divinity, one of the names given to the consort of Siva. The divinity was absolutely encircled with their votive offerings. Bacchus is the divinity to whom waggle devotes his especial worship. Antoninus says that the soul of man is an efflux from the divinity. Ate, the daughter of Zeus and Eris, was a divinity who delighted in evil. Thare is a divinity that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will. The latter's throat literally gurgled with the name of his divinity. I suppose there must be a sort of divinity hedging in a captain's wife which prevented him applying to her that contemptuous definition in the secret of his thoughts. Rogojin asked his question like a lost soul appealing to some divinity, with the reckless daring of one appointed to die, who has nothing to lose. You have heard me speak at sundry times and in divers places of an oracle or sign which comes to me, and is the divinity which Meletus ridicules in the indictment. Find more words! 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