Over the last two decades of his reign, Alfred undertook a radical reorganisation of the military institutions of his kingdom, strengthened the West Saxon economy through a policy of monetary reform and urban planning and strove to win divine favour by resurrecting the literary glories of earlier generations of Anglo-Saxons.

* The economy of Salvation is that part of divine revelation that deals with God ’ s creation and management of the world, particularly His plan for salvation accomplished through the Church

As such, the word " economy ", and the concept attaching to it, are utilized especially with regard to two types of " handling ": ( a ) divine economy, that is, God's " handling " or " management " of the fallen state of the world and of mankind — the arrangements he made in order to bring about man's salvation after the Fall ; and ( b ) what might be termed pastoral economy ( or ) ecclesiastical economy, that is, the Church's " handling " or " management " of various pastoral and disciplinary questions, problems, and issues that have arisen through the centuries of Church history.

Conversely, sins reduce one's merit before God and incur a debt to Him in the divine economy.

Hamann famously argued that the communicatio idiomatum applies not just to Christ, but should be generalised to cover all human action: ' This communicatio of divine and human idiomatum is a fundamental law and the master-key of all our knowledge and of the whole visible economy '.

" Only by " divine grace ", Weizsäcker said, were they spared the temptation to build the bomb-grace, as the German war economy was unable to mobilize the necessary resources.

Meyendorff's landmark study of Palamas however, " set Palamas firmly within the context of Greek patristic thought and spirituality " with the result that Palamism is now generally understood to be " a faithful witness to the long-standing Eastern Christian emphasis on deification ( theosis ) as the purpose of the divine economy in Christ.

St. Bonaventure ’ s “ Retracing the Arts to Theology ”, a primary example of this method, discusses the skills of the artisan as gifts given by God for the purpose of disclosing God to mankind, which purpose is achieved through four lights: the light of skill in mechanical arts which discloses the world of artifacts ; which light is guided by the light of sense perception which discloses the world of natural forms ; which light, consequently, is guided by the light of philosophy which discloses the world of intellectual truth ; finally, this light is guided by the light of divine wisdom which discloses the world of saving truth.

He had power to lay down a human sense of life for his spiritual identity in the likeness of the divine ; but he allowed men to attempt the destruction of the mortal body in order that he might furnish the proof of immortal life.

" The semantics of this Chinese word resemble English virtue, which developed from a ( now archaic ) sense of " inner potency " or " divine power " ( as in " healing virtue of a drug ") to the modern meaning of " moral excellence " or " goodness.

" No one can, without being grossly unfair, make divine Providence responsible for what clearly seems to be the result of misguided governmental policies, of an insufficient sense of social justice, of a selfish accumulation of material goods, and finally of a culpable failure to undertake those initiatives and responsibilities which would raise the standard of living of peoples and their children.

Tirthankaras are not regarded as deities in the pantheistic or polytheistic sense, but rather as pure souls that have awakened the divine spiritual qualities that lie dormant within each of us.

He tells that as a beginner he was desperate to comprehend the passages dealing with the activities of the divine Word, until by the grace of God he was able to gather the right sense of Scripture, which he then understood.

) Divine revelation's law-making is both unconditioned in terms of the divine right to choose, and conditioned in the sense of the progress of history from one revelation to the next.

They were hoping that, as he was a descendant of Muhammad, his presence would help to improve their date palm crops thanks to his barakah " blessing ", an Arabic term meaning a sense of divine presence or charisma.

This event, in a sense, crowns all that has been said previously about Christ entrusting divine truths to women as well as men.

In other words, apart from God's will determining man's will in a divine sense, only chaos or enslavement to mindless and impersonal forces is possible.

With no significant exception, when predestinarians deny that man has freedom of will, it is to deny that man's will is free in the same sense as the Creator's will, or to affirm that man's choices are entirely subject to divine causation.

The Ratio was indeed imbued with a sense of the divine, of the incarnate logos, that is of rhetoric as an eloquent and humane means to reach further devotion and further action in the Christian city, which was absent from Ramist formalism.

Some ghulat Shi ' a Muslim sects also regard their founders as in some special sense divine incarnations ( hulul ).

In this sense it is a symbol of divine majesty.

Nayru, the Goddess of Wisdom, bestowed her divine Wisdom upon the land, and created the world's laws to give a sense of justice and order to the world, and to guide the people in the goddesses ' absence.

Hence, it is difficult to say that the divine mind even has such things as thoughts and judgments, because a thought, in any sense of this word that we are familiar with, is, presumably, something that has a beginning and an end.

In its secondary sense, a community that calls itself Universalist may emphasize the universal principles of most religions and accept other religions in an inclusive manner, believing in a universal reconciliation between humanity and the divine.

According to some Kabbalists, only a mystic, who is able to sense and elevate the reincarnated human souls and " divine sparks ", is permitted to consume meat, though eating the flesh of an animal might still cause spiritual damage to the soul.

The Polykletian statues for example Discophoros ( discus-bearer ) and Doryphoros ( spear-bearer ) are idealized athletic young men with the divine sense, and captured in contrapposto.

Theories which claim that morality is derived from reasoning about implied imperatives ( universal prescriptivism ), the edicts of a god ( divine command theory ), or the hypothetical decrees of a perfectly rational being ( ideal observer theory ), are considered anti-realist in the robust sense used here, but are considered realist in the sense synonymous with moral universalism.

In his work on the divine proportion, H. E. Huntley relates the feeling of reading and understanding someone else's proof of a theorem of mathematics to that of a viewer of a masterpiece of art — the reader of a proof has a similar sense of exhilaration at understanding as the original author of the proof, much as, he argues, the viewer of a masterpiece has a sense of exhilaration similar to the original painter or sculptor.

Following the resignation of Michael Reiss, the director of education at the Royal Society — who had controversially argued that school pupils who believed in creationism should be used by science teachers to start discussions, rather than be rejected per se — Polkinghorne argued in The Times that there is a distinction between believing in the mind and purpose of a divine creator, and what he calls creationism " in that curious North American sense ," with a literal interpretation of Genesis 1 and the belief that evolution is wrong, a position he rejects.

The term Ayah is used in the Qur ' an in the above mentioned threefold sense: it refers to the " verses " of the Qur ' an ( believed to be the divine speech in human language ; presented by Muhammad as his chief Miracle ); as well as to miracles of it and the signs ( particularly those of creation ).

We must yield to the divine will, he says ; we cannot pick and choose and accept only what we can understand.

The prophet, though blind with old age, knew the wife of Jeroboam as soon as she approached, and under a divine impulse he announced to her that inasmuch as in Abijah alone of all the house of Jeroboam there was found " some good thing toward the Lord ," he only would come to his grave in peace.

Spanish advocates predicated the term adoptivus of Christ only in respect to his humanity ; once the divine Son " emptied himself " of divinity and " took the form of a servant " ( Philippians 2: 7 ), Christ's human nature was " adopted " as divine.

" The divine call for massacre at Jericho and elsewhere can be explained in terms of cultural norms ( Israel wasn't the only Iron Age state to practice herem ) and theology ( a measure to ensure Israel's purity as well as the fulfillment of God's promise ), but Patrick D. Miller in his commentary on Deuteronomy remarks, " there is no real way to make such reports palatable to the hearts and minds of contemporary readers and believers.

Though diverse, these views may be generally classified into those that hold Christ to be only divine and not differing from the Father hypostatically ; those that hold Christ to be less fully God than the Father ; in other forms being completely human and a messenger as the perfect created human.

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

I could only assure him that the divine Spirit had wrought the miracle — a miracle which later I found to be in perfect scientific accord with divine law.

Many of these churches reject the idea that anyone other than the authors of Scripture can directly lead other Christians by original divine authority ; after the New Testament, they assert, the doors of revelation were closed and councils can only give advice or guidance, but have no authority.

Ezekiel, like all the other prophets, has beheld only a blurred reflection of the divine majesty, just as a poor mirror reflects objects only imperfectly ).

In his reply Eusebius not only regretted the whole controversy, but also stated that he would abide by the words of the Bible, according to which the bread and wine after the consecration become the body and blood of the Lord ( see transubstantiation ); if one asks how this can take place, the answer must be that it is not according to the order of nature but in accordance with the divine omnipotence ; at any rate one must be careful not to give offense to the plain Christian.

It is possible that only the Egyptian theologians fully recognized this underlying unity, but it is also possible that ordinary Egyptians identified the single divine force with a single god in particular situations.

Although Muslims respect the divine prophets, the prophets-including Muhammad-are still only servants of Allah.

Those who contract such alliances, as also their offspring, the divine laws not only ostracize but declare accursed, while the civil laws brand them as infamous and deprive them of hereditary rights.

Only in John does Jesus talk at length about himself and his divine role, often shared with the disciples only.

Hence to use this divine gift while depriving it, even if only partially, of its meaning and purpose, is equally repugnant to the nature of man and of woman, and is consequently in opposition to the plan of God and His holy will.

The radicals preached the " sufficientia legis Christi "— the divine law ( i. e. the Bible ) is the sole rule and canon for human society, not only in the church, but also in political and civil matters.

He taught them that true Divine service consisted of not only religious scholarship, but also a sincere love of God combined with warm faith and belief in the efficacy of prayer ; that the ordinary person filled with a sincere belief in God, and whose prayers come from the heart, is more acceptable to God than someone versed in and fully observant of Jewish law who lacks inspiration in his divine service.

Certainly this is not the full adoration in accordance with our faith, which is properly paid only to the divine nature, but it resembles that given to the figure of the honored and life-giving cross, and also to the holy books of the gospels and to other sacred objects " ( Definition of the Second Council of Nicaea ).

He was one of only a few commoners ever to be accorded divine status after death.

Certainly this is not the full adoration in accordance with our faith, which is properly paid only to the divine nature, but it resembles that given to the figure of the honoured and life-giving cross, and also to the holy books of the gospels and to other sacred cult objects.

But by making an icon of Jesus, one is separating his human and divine natures, since only the human can be depicted ( separating the natures was considered nestorianism ), or else confusing the human and divine natures, considering them one ( union of the human and divine natures was considered monophysitism ).