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, 2018 Augury refers narrowly to officially-sanctioned divination via the flights of birds. More broadly, it can refer to divination of a variety of natural sorts, ranging from weather phenomena, to different animals, to other signs.
Robertson, Paul
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Divine authority as divine parenthood
Religious StudiesAbstract In this article, I argue that God is authoritative over us because he is our divine, causal parent. As our causal parent, God has duties to relate to us, but he can only fulfil those duties if he has the practical authority to give us commands aimed at our sanctification.
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The Divine Processions and the Divine Energies
Philosophy of Religion: Analytic Researches, 2020 The concept of the divine energies (energeiai) is commonly associated with the late Byzantine theologian Gregory Palamas. In fact, however, it has biblical origins and figures prominently in Greek patristic theology from at least the fourth century. Here I briefly trace its history beginning with the Pauline usage of energeia and continuing through the
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Practice of Divination: The Tibetan Zhang Zhung Ju thig Divination System
, 2014 Interview to a Bonpo Lama on the ancient practice of Juthig divination, or divination with cords.
Rossi, donatella
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Does Meta-induction Justify Induction: Or Maybe Something Else? [PDF]
J Gen Philos Sci, 2023 Pitts JB.
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Aeschylus and the poetics of divination
, 2018 The main purpose of this paper is to show in general lines how divination is a key element in the construction of dramatic strategies in Aeschylus’ seven surviving plays, due to the fact that divination informs and defines both the singularity of the ...
de Paoli, Beatriz, Beatriz de Paoli
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, 1986 In the May 1982 issue of Word Ways, Paul Hellweg presented a list of 124 English words designating various forms of divination.
Borgmann, Dmitri A.
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Mesopotamian Celestial Divination
, 2014 Celestial divination was an important aspect of scholarly activity in Mesopota- mia. Several hundred cuneiform tablets attest to its practice and provide details of the different types of omens that were drawn from observations of the sky.
VERDERAME, Lorenzo, Lorenzo Verderame
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La divination à l’époque tardive
, 2017 Cet article cherche à mettre en évidence un processus méconnu de l’Antiquité tardive : la « romanisation » des diverses formes de divination. En effet, ce sont les pratiques romaines de la divination, c’est-à-dire dénuées de dimension prospective, qui ...
Goddard, Christophe
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Plato's Conception of Divination [PDF]
, 2015 I take one of the goals of Plato’s dialogues is to stake out a territory for philosophy. In order to do this, Plato evaluates and critiques other, more established, disciplines like rhetoric, the sophistic movement, poetry, and finally, divination.
Landry, Aaron James
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