For a while, Spain was divided between the schools: in Catalonia the rulings of Nahmanides and ben Adret were accepted, in Castile those of the Asher family and in Valencia those of Maimonides.

For example, both works are soteriological and possess a high Christology, stressing Jesus ' divine nature as opposed to the human nature stressed by the Synoptic Gospels.

For him, aether was an unchanging, almost divine substance that was found only in the heavens, where it formed celestial spheres.

For Christians, Jesus is also fully human and fully divine as the Word of God who sacrifices himself so that humans can receive salvation.

" For the full content of divine nature lives in Christ.

For example, Josephus ' description of the death of John the Baptist includes consideration of his virtues, the theology associated with his baptismal practices, his oratorical skills, his influence, the circumstances of his death, and the belief that the destruction of Herod's army was a divine punishment for Herod's slaughter of John.

For others, his youthful success was the mark of a prodigious military talent, divine favour and personal brio that merited popular support.

For both of them, flowing from the same divine wellspring, in a certain way merge into a unity and tend toward the same end.

For Sacred Scripture is the word of God inasmuch as it is consigned to writing under the inspiration of the divine Spirit, while sacred tradition takes the word of God entrusted by Christ the Lord and the Holy Spirit to the Apostles, and hands it on to their successors in its full purity, so that led by the light of the Spirit of truth, they may in proclaiming it preserve this word of God faithfully, explain it, and make it more widely known.

For all of what has been said about the way of interpreting Scripture is subject finally to the judgment of the Church, which carries out the divine commission and ministry of guarding and interpreting the word of God.

For what the Apostles preached in fulfillment of the commission of Christ, afterwards they themselves and apostolic men, under the inspiration of the divine Spirit, handed on to us in writing: the foundation of faith, namely, the fourfold Gospel, according to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

For example, influences on thinking that originate from outside of an individual's consciousness were reflected in the ancient ideas of temptation, divine inspiration, and the predominant role of the gods in affecting motives and actions.

For centuries the events at the crowning of Clovis I became a symbol used by the monarchy to claim the divine right to rule.

For instance, the right of a father to be respected by his son did not indicate a duty upon the father to return that respect, and the divine right of kings which permitted absolute power over subjects did not leave room for many rights to be granted to the subjects themselves.

For an explanation of the divine natures of all the Ainur, see Ainulindalë ).

For the ancient Greeks, fire had divine connotations — it was thought to have been stolen from the gods by Prometheus.

For Hesiod, Justice is at the center of religious and moral life, who, independently of Zeus, is the embodiment of divine will.

For the same reason, he opposed theurgic and magic practices as they were attempts to supersede the divine providential order.

Unity began without intention of becoming a “ church ” as demonstrated by the name “ Unity School of Christianity .” For the first three-quarters of a century, “ it had been an auxiliary type of religion, a booster station amplifying the power of Christian faith .” ( Bach, 1965, p 5 ) Originally it was “ A religious-educational movement teaching the use of God-consciousness in everyday life, clarifying the working of divine law, explaining the action of the mind which it calls the connecting link between God and man .” ( Bach, 1965, p 5 ) Leaders and followers, equally shared their understandings in attempts to find “ universal truths ,” or laws that were true for all persons, all religions, all places, all times.

For men to meddle in that choice was to tamper with the divine order, the inevitable price of which was chaos.

For example, practices based on a religious motivation might include fasting, abstention from sex, and other forms of self-denial intended to increase religious awareness or attain a closer relationship with a purported " divine ".

For instance, the spiritual prophet who communicates with the divine, then shares his insight and understanding to those in his group, community or society.

For example, before any meeting could begin, a sacrifice to the gods was made, and a search for divine omens ( the auspices ) was taken.

For Catholics, the payment of tithes was adopted from the Old Law, and early writers speak of it as a divine ordinance and an obligation of conscience, rather than any direct command by Jesus Christ.

For the salvation of mankind, she gave up her rights as the mother of her son and sacrificed him for the reconciliation of divine justice, as far as she was permitted to do.

For the philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas, epiphany or a manifestation of the divine is seen in another's face ( see face-to-face ).

For each of his dreams, Daniel is in need of an angelic interpreter and the force of each revelation impacts him severely.

For Deists, human beings can only know God via reason and the observation of nature, but not by revelation or supernatural manifestations ( such as miracles ) – phenomena which Deists regard with caution if not skepticism.

According to Nicholas de Lange, Judaism offers no clear teaching about the destiny which lies in wait for the individual after death and its attitude to life after death has been expressed as follows: " For the future is inscrutable, and the accepted sources of knowledge, whether experience, or reason, or revelation, offer no clear guidance about what is to come.

For the sages of the Mishnah and Talmud, and for their successors today, the study of Torah was therefore not merely a means to learn the contents of God's revelation, but an end in itself.

For liberal Mormons, revelation is a process through which God gradually brings fallible human beings to greater understanding.

For instance, both Lehi and Nephi received their callings by revelation and visions from the Lord.

For Berlioz the experience of hearing the Eroica brought the last and greatest revelation of the power of instrumental music as an expressive language, along with the freedom of action with which it could be expressive.

For critic Harold Rosenberg, the paintings were nothing short of a revelation.

… For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people ; otherwise they shall hearken unto these things .” The reason given in The Book of Mormon for the practice of polygamy, then, is by revelation from God in order to " raise up seed unto.

For instance, the intellect, according to Mu ' tazilis, can know, independently of revelation, that justice and telling the truth ( sidq ) are morally good.

For Muslims, the Qur ' an is the final, complete revelation from God ( Arabic الله ‎ Allah ), who believe it to have been revealed to Muhammad, who is believed by Muslims to be the final prophet of Islam.

For further review of this issue, see Which of Swedenborg's books are Divine revelation?

For instance, in condemning proposition 14, " Philosophy is to be treated without taking any account of supernatural revelation ", the Syllabus asserts the truth of the contrary proposition — that philosophy should take account of supernatural revelation.

For example, a headnote to the earliest known version of chapter XXII of the Book of Commandments says that the revelation was dictated in Fayette on April 6, 1830, after the church was organized.

For his desire of oneness with God, many Muslims criticized him as a "' crypto-Christian ' for distorting the monotheistic revelation in a Christian way.

The Second Vatican Council states, " For this reason Jesus perfected revelation by fulfilling it through his whole work of making Himself present and manifesting Himself: through His words and deeds, His signs and wonders, but especially through His death and glorious resurrection from the dead and final sending of the Spirit of truth.

For us the real revolution in critical theory … was heralded by the publication, in 1938, of Understanding Poetry … for many of us who were preparing ourselves to teach English is those years …. this book … came as a kind of revelation.

For example, is the Bible a written part of a wider revelation entrusted to the Church as faith community, and therefore to be interpreted within that context?

The revelation principle states: " For any Bayesian Nash equilibrium there corresponds a Bayesian game with the same equilibrium outcome but in which players truthfully report type.

For myself, I do not believe that there ever has been any revelation.

For example, Lyttelton wrote to West in 1761, " Sir, in a late conversation we had together upon the subject of the Christian religion, I told you that besides all the proofs of it which may be drawn from the prophecies of the Old Testament, from the necessary connection it has with the whole system of the Jewish religion, from the miracles of Christ, and from the evidence given of his reflection by all the other apostles, I thought the conversion and apostleship of Saint Paul alone, duly considered, was of itself a demonstration sufficient to prove Christianity a divine revelation.

For them, the Bible becomes more than a reliable record of God's revelation in the past.

For fifteen days, Muhammad awaited eagerly for the revelation.