How To Use daimon In A Sentence
- Soteros epiphaneias, ton proi, hon egrapsen ho Markos eipon (ho kai meta diastoles anagnosteon) anastas de; eita hupostixantes, to hexes rheteon, proi te mia tou sabbatou ephane Maria te Magdalene, aph 'hes ekbeblhukei hepta daimonia. The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established
- Milton's admirable economy in working this truth into his great poem (i. 378) affords a sublime exposition of the mind of the Fathers on the origin of mythologies.] [1774] The word daimon means in Greek a god, but the Christians used the word to signify an evil spirit. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
- This alone leads to that "eudaimonia" or happiness for which man strives. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy
- Supposing, just for a second, that we take these metaphors literally; what we would basically be saying is that God -- that Supreme Being, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient -- is the real evil, while Lucifer and Christ were both good guys, both trying but failing to wake humanity up to its daimonic -- which is to say divine -- potential. THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART ONE
- [4] Ti oun oudeis daimon onomazei ton Theon? ouchi hoi daimonizomenoi elegon oidamen se tis hei ho huios tou Theou? ouchi Paulo elegon, houtoi hoi anthropoi douloi tou Theou tou hupsistou eisin? alla mastizomenoi, all 'anankazomenoi, hekontes de kai me mastigoumenoi, oudamnou. Pneumatologia
- Larsen: People who are really creative do use the term affliction, because it is like a daimon that has hold of you and it's where your energy comes from. Interview with Stephen Larsen, author, THE FUNDAMENTALIST MIND
- However, what I really have in mind is something Ancient, and is really captured by terms like 'virtue' and 'wisdom' and (perhaps most of all) "eudaimonia"; and the thinkers I am leaning on are first, Alasdair MacIntyre, and second, Martha Nussbaum (and behind them both lies Aristotle). What do I mean by 'emotional intelligence'?
- In any case, such would already be the ideal whenever daimonic love is suppressed.
- Even more it was a mark of divine favor, for the gods, it was believed, worked through the daimones, emissaries and conductors of their will.
- Meeks' own concluding essay, The Christian Proteus, reminds us of the shape-changing aspect of Paul, a daimon who questions us just when we think we are questioning him.
