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Divines meaning
plural of divine
Example sentences (8)
It's not that the Divines are dead, it's that they are unable to interact with the world due to a lack of power.
Andrewes' name is the first on the list of divines appointed to compile the Authorized Version of the Bible.
But the official recognition and the crown's approval to his undertaking could not save him from the censure and ceaseless opposition of the divines.
For there really is, as every one to some extent divines, a natural justice and injustice that is binding on all men, even on those who have no association or covenant with each other.
On his accession and following the so-called " Millenary Petition ", James I called the Hampton Court Conference in 1604—the same meeting of bishops and Puritan divines that initiated the Authorized King James Version of the Bible.
The Caroline Divines also favoured elaborate liturgy (in some cases favouring the liturgy of the pre-Reformation church citation. ) and aesthetics.
The Institution of the Christian Man (also called The Bishops' Book), published in 1537, was written by a committee of 46 divines and bishops headed by Thomas Cranmer.
The leaders of the Anglo-Catholic revival in the 19th century would draw heavily from the works of the Caroline Divines. citation.