Medieval Christian concept.
Sinònims
Examples for "great chain of being"
Examples for "great chain of being"
1Darwin's great chain of being has advanced us to chicken-necked bipeds clasping 3in screens.
2Every link in the great chain of being attracts the nemesis which breaks it!
3Augustine's mind was filled with the Greek imagery of the great chain of being instead of the Semitic images of the seven heavens.
4The One existed in serene contemplation of itself beyond the ravages of time and change at the pinnacle of the great chain of being.
5Humans, at the top of the great chain of being, had a God-given right to superintend the animals of the world as they saw fit.
1Darwin's great chain of being has advanced us to chicken-necked bipeds clasping 3in screens.
2Every link in the great chain of being attracts the nemesis which breaks it!
3Men and women could no longer ascend the chain of being to God by their own efforts.
4If it had stopped there it would have sounded like a version of the Elizabethan chain of being.
5Step by step, a Christian could ascend the chain of being until he reached God, his natural element and home.
6No link is broken in the chain of being; any more than in passing from infancy to manhood, from manhood to old age.
7Augustine's mind was filled with the Greek imagery of the great chain of being instead of the Semitic images of the seven heavens.
8But because its existence was so different from that of anything else, it was not just another item in the chain of being.
9The One existed in serene contemplation of itself beyond the ravages of time and change at the pinnacle of the great chain of being.
10His colour came and went, his eye danced and his tones grew deep and tremulous, as he dwelt on the illimitable chain of being.
11Claims for gradualism attain their highest frequencies at "opposite" ends of the conventional chain of being-thatis, for foraminifers and for mammals.
12Humans, at the top of the great chain of being, had a God-given right to superintend the animals of the world as they saw fit.
13The rotten chain of beings reaches down into this slaughter field of souls.
14Thus the chain of beings is like a serpent eating his own tail....
15What if that first link in the Great Chain of being-OrholamHimself-isas empty as every other link before him?
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