Kabbalah defines God as the force of giving in existence.

In this work, Alan uses prose and verse to illustrate the way in which nature defines its own position as inferior to that of God.

Griffith Thomas commented that the retention of the words " militant here in earth " defines the scope of this petition: we pray for ourselves, we thank God for them, and adduces collateral evidence to this end.

According to Paul VI, married love takes its origin from God, who " is love ", and from this basic dignity, he defines his position:

He first defines faith as the firm and certain knowledge of God in Christ.

We, adhering faithfully to the tradition received from the beginning of the Christian faith, to the glory of God, our Saviour, the elevation of the Catholic religion and the salvation of Christian peoples, with the approbation of the sacred Council, teach and explain that the dogma has been divinely revealed: that the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is, when carrying out the duty of the pastor and teacher of all Christians by his supreme apostolic authority he defines a doctrine of faith or morals to be held by the universal Church, through the divine assistance promised him in blessed Peter, operates with that infallibility with which the divine Redeemer wished that His church be instructed in defining doctrine on faith and morals ; and so such definitions of the Roman Pontiff from himself, but not from the consensus of the Church, are unalterable.

Calvin himself defines predestination as " the eternal decree of God, by which he determined with himself whatever he wished to happen with regard to every man.

* Chapter 1 defines four kinds of monks: ( 1 ) Cenobites, those " in a monastery, where they serve under a rule and an abbot "; ( 2 ) Anchorites, or hermits, who, after long successful training in a monastery, are now coping single-handedly, with only God for their help ; ( 3 ) Sarabaites, living by twos and threes together or even alone, with no experience, rule and superior, and thus a law unto themselves ; and ( 4 ) Gyrovagues, wandering from one monastery to another, slaves to their own wills and appetites.

Scouts Canada defines Duty to God broadly in terms of " adherence to spiritual principles " and leaves it to the individual member or leader whether they can follow a Scout Promise that includes Duty to God.

Unitarianism is a Christian theological movement, named for its understanding of God as one person, in direct contrast to Trinitarianism which defines God as three persons coexisting consubstantially as one in being.

He also defines and defends a lesser notion of the " almightiness " of God.

Judaism's focus is more on how God defines man than on trying to define God.

A more literal translation of bhakti would be " participation "; The sage Narada defines Bhakti as " intense love " for God.

Similarly Sage Shandilya defines Bhakti as " intense attraction " for God.

This character, the Avatar, defines God as primordial matter ( like quarks and leptons ) and the law of probability.

His theory of alienation, developed in the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 ( published in 1932 ), inspired itself from Feuerbach's critique of the alienation of Man in God through the objectivation of all his inherent characteristics ( thus man projected on God all qualities which are in fact man's own quality which defines the " human nature ").

The Bible defines character as any behavior or activity that reflects the character of God.

The Divine Names, the classic treatise by Pseudo-Dionysius, defines the scope of traditional understandings in Western traditions such as Hellenic, Christian, Jewish and Islamic theology on the nature and significance of the names of God.

Augustine of Hippo mentioned the Cynocephali in City of God, Book XVI, Chapter 8, in the context of discussing whether such beings were descendants of Adam ; he considered the possibility that they might not exist at all, or might not be human ( which Augustine defines as being a mortal and rational animal: homo, id est animal rationale mortale ), but insisted that if they were human they were indeed descendants of Adam.

They believe the New Covenant ( along with the concept of the kingdom of God ) defines and describes the ongoing relationship between Christian believers and God, and that it will be in full fruition after the second coming of Jesus ; that is, it will not only be in full fruition in believing hearts, but in the external world as well.

* André Breton defines surrealism as " pure psychic automatism " in the first Surrealist Manifesto.

From the Indian word Dharma, this shinma is pure, wise, and all-knowing: the opposite of what it defines.

Professor Jeffrey Hopkins translates several passages from the sutra in which the Buddha speaks of this topic and defines the Buddha-nature as pure, eternal, truly real self:

In the same fashion, it defines the Church Triumphant as " in heaven, and consists of those who have washed their robes and made them immaculate and pure in the blood of the Lamb.

He defines a dictionary in terms of its major features, and a dictionary has three such features: A dictionary is a lexicographic reference work that has been designed to fulfill one or more functions ( its pure potential ), contains lexicographic data supporting the function ( s ), and contains lexicographic structures that combine and link the data in order to fulfill the function ( s ).

While flat modules are those modules which leave short exact sequences exact after tensoring, a pure submodule defines a short exact sequence that remains exact after tensoring with any module.

Similarly a flat module is a direct limit of projective modules, and a pure submodule defines a short exact sequence which is a direct limit of split exact sequences, each defined by a direct summand.

This matrix rotates the a pure time-axis vector ( 1, 0, 0 ) to ( V < sub > 0 </ sub >, V < sub > 1 </ sub >, 0 ), and all its columns are relativistically perpendicular to one another, so it defines a Lorentz transformation.

Whereas most of them require only faith in Jesus for salvation, Oneness Pentecostalism defines salvation as repentance, baptism ( in Jesus ' name ) and receipt of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in other tongues.

The New Spirit Filled Life Bible defines gentleness as " a disposition that is even-tempered, tranquil, balanced in spirit, unpretentious, and that has the passions under control.

Evelyn Underhill ( 2001 ) defines worship thus: " The absolute acknowledgment of all that lies beyond us — the glory that fills heaven and earth.

Bloom argues that " openness " and absolute understanding undermines critical thinking and eliminates the " point of view " that defines cultures.

David Gordon's paper, " Indicators of Poverty & Hunger ", for the United Nations, further defines absolute poverty as the absence of any two of the following eight basic needs:

The last condition is sometimes called the Cartan condition: it means that η defines an absolute parallelism on P. The second condition implies that η is already injective on vertical vectors and that the 1-form η mod, with values in, is horizontal.

The IETF ( Internet Engineering Task Force ) defines shall and must as synonymous terms denoting absolute requirements, and should as denoting a somewhat flexible requirement, in RFC documents.

# Definition of the vector space F = F ( X, μ ) as the space of all functions f on X for which the upper integral μ *(| f |) of the absolute value is finite ; the upper integral of the absolute value defines a semi-norm on F, and F is a complete space with respect to the topology defined by the semi-norm

For instance, the first RECTANGLE record below defines the following type of rectangle shape, its size and its absolute location:

Since he defines technique as " the totality of methods rationally arrived at, and having absolute efficiency ( for a given stage of development ) in every field of human activity ", it is clear that his sociological analysis focuses not on the society of machines as such, but on the society of " efficient techniques ":

and ANSI / ASME B89. 1. 9M, which defines both absolute deviations from nominal dimensions and parallelism limits as criteria for grade determination.

On a non-orientable manifold, the volume element is typically the absolute value of a ( locally defined ) volume form: it defines a 1-density.

For example, if one defines categories in terms of sets, that is, as sets of objects and morphisms ( usually called a small category ), or even locally small categories, whose hom-objects are sets, then there is no category of all sets, and so it is difficult for a category-theoretic formulation to apply to all sets.

Such a grammar defines the formal language: all words consisting solely of terminal symbols which can be reached by a derivation from the start symbol.

and start symbol, defines the language of all words of the form ( i. e. copies of followed by copies of ).

The Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce defines it as all of Cook and DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry and Will counties.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ), the widely used psychiatric manual that defines all mental disorders, uses the term general medical condition to refer to all diseases, illnesses, and injuries except for mental disorders.

Thus all the sets comprise a general directed graph ( ownership defines a direction ), or network construct.

First, the conceptual level is designed, which defines the over-all picture / view of the database, and reflects all the real-world elements ( entities ) the database intends to model, as well as the relationships among them.

The OED defines all classical uses of the word " whom " in situations where the indirect object is not known – in effect, indicating the anonymity of the indirect object.

If the expression that defines the DFT is evaluated for all integers k instead of just for, then the resulting infinite sequence is a periodic extension of the DFT, periodic with period N.

The flow now defines a map, the Poincaré map F: S → S, for points starting in S and returning to S. Not all these points will take the same amount of time to come back, but the times will be close to the time it takes x < sub > 0 </ sub >.

As Sartre writes in his work Existentialism is a Humanism: "... man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards.

In many-worlds, the subjective appearance of wavefunction collapse is explained by the mechanism of quantum decoherence, which resolves all of the correlation paradoxes of quantum theory, such as the EPR paradox and Schrödinger's cat, since every possible outcome of every event defines or exists in its own " history " or " world ".

Using the ratio test it is possible to show that this power series has an infinite radius of convergence, and so defines e < sup > z </ sup > for all complex z.

The dogmatic constitution states that the Pope has " full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the whole Church " ( chapter 3: 9 ); and that, when he " speaks ex cathedra, that is, when, in the exercise of his office as shepherd and teacher of all Christians, in virtue of his supreme apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine concerning faith or morals to be held by the whole Church, he possesses, by the divine assistance promised to him in blessed Peter, that infallibility which the divine Redeemer willed his Church to enjoy in defining doctrine concerning faith or morals " ( chapter 4: 9 ).

A variety of other procedures are collectively known as Type IV, which the WHO defines as " all other harmful procedures to the female genitalia for non-medical purposes, for example, pricking, piercing, incising, scraping and cauterization.

The player then defines it as a " jet of fire ," with all that implies: it has the possibility of starting secondary fires ; it looks, smells and sounds like a jet of fire ; etc.

Given a set S with a partial order ≤, an infinite descending chain is a chain V that is a subset of S upon which ≤ defines a total order such that V has no least element, that is, an element m such that for all elements n in V it holds that m ≤ n.

* ISO 3166-2, Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 2: Country subdivision code, defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions ( e. g., provinces or states ) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

The Constitution defines impeachment at the federal level and limits impeachment to " The President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States " who may be impeached and removed only for " treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors ".

Thus Kant defines idealism as " the assertion that we can never be certain whether all of our putative outer experience is not mere imagining ".

The Kerguelen Islands, along with the islands of Amsterdam and St. Paul, and the Crozet archipelago were officially annexed by France in 1893, and were included as possessions in the French constitution in 1924 ( in addition to that portion of Antarctica claimed by France and known as Adélie Land ; as with all Antarctic territorial claims, France's possession on the continent is held in abeyance until a new international treaty is ratified that defines each claimant's rights and obligations ).

" Love " may refer specifically to the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love, to the sexual love of eros, to the emotional closeness of familial love, to the platonic love that defines friendship, or to the profound oneness or devotion of religious love, or to a concept of love that encompasses all of those feelings.

defines a projection from the ellipsoid to the sphere such that all meridians have true length and uniform scale.