Medieval Christian concept.
Sinônimos
Examples for "scala naturae"
Examples for "scala naturae"
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.
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.
6What if that first link in the Great Chain of being-OrholamHimself-isas empty as every other link before him?
Translations for great chain of being