revelational

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• This addition refers to the revelational tradition, which suggested that for its highest efforts to know the meaning of man and the order of the world, the natural intellect was, in its own terms, insufficient, but not wholly helpless or deceptive.

  Academic text (1999)

• In this sense, it is a work of reason stimulated by a revelational teaching.

  Academic text (1999)

• In varying degrees, the civil order itself was constituted by the revelational order.

  Academic text (1999)

• It was not, as such, denied legitimacy in the revelational accounts.

  Academic text (1999)

• Unlike modern philosophers, they did not think it permissible or even scientific to ignore or actively oppose the revelational tradition, even when considering political matters.

  Academic text (1999)

• As will become clear in the following pages, Byzantine hymnography explicitly identifies Jesus Christ as the author of the revelational and saving acts recorded in the Old Testament.

  Academic text (2007)

• He wants to restore it to derail the incursions of particularly revelational religions that ground themselves on the failures of those practical projects to satisfy the human heart.

  Academic text (1998)

• The purpose of revelational resources such as grace and the sacraments was not directly political in the Aristotelian sense, nor were they necessarily designed to change the definitions of the virtues as Aristotle understood them.

  Academic text (1998)

• The scholar's latest book offers a revelational insight into the spiritual teachings of ancient texts.

• Many artists find inspiration in the revelational experiences that shape their understanding of the divine.

Synonyms

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revelatory

vsrevelational

9 7.3

Showing facts people did not know before

is specific to disclosures of divine or spiritual truth

How Religious

revelational

• Literature

8.2

religious

∞ 2.7

spiritual

660 4.8

secular

143 4.7

Surface Forms

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Etymology