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Wippel, J.F. (1985) ˜Divine Knowledge, Divine Power and Human Freedom in T.omas Aquinas and Henry of Ghent™ in T. Rudavsky (ed.), Divine Omniscience and Omnipotence in Medieval Philosophy, Synthese Historical Library 25 (Dordrecht: Reidel),
Medieval Theories of Future Contingents Knuuttila, Simo 2006
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With a few notorious exceptions, like Nero, the title Divine was bestowed on emperors only after they'd died.
Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007
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With a few notorious exceptions, like Nero, the title Divine was bestowed on emperors only after they'd died.
Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007
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This going out of Self to create something other than Self is what I call Divine Love.
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The monarch was still regarded as the head of the feudal State, while a number of the leading men were beginning to perceive more or less clearly that society had passed out of a condition in which it could be deeply or permanently swayed by the absolute will of one individual, however highly placed by what one called the Divine pleasure, and another the accident of birth.
St George's Cross 1870
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How could it be otherwise when he knew far more of what he called the Divine decrees than he did of his own heart, or the needs and miseries of human nature?
Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864
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Or if you like it better, he would have a claim to the promises of your Church; but if you merely take advantage of the weakness of a man at the point of death to make him seem a traitor to his whole life, why, then, I should say you trusted, more than I do, to what you call Divine promises. '
Stray Pearls Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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Let him join in considering it a religious duty to print the most genuine text of those words which he calls Divine; let him yield no grudging assent to the removal of demonstrated interpolations in our text or errors in our translation; let him give
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Secondly, The second sort of faith, which I call Divine or religious, is a persuasion of things supernaturally revealed, of things which are not known by natural light, but by some more immediate manifestation and discovery from God.
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 09. 1630-1694 1820
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Third sort of faith, which I call Divine or religious; viz. a persuasion concerning a Divine revelation, that it is such: which I distinguish from the former thus.
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 09. 1630-1694 1820
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