{"id":601,"date":"2026-03-22T10:57:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T10:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/?p=601"},"modified":"2026-03-21T12:47:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T12:47:02","slug":"on-conceptions-of-the-divine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/on-conceptions-of-the-divine\/","title":{"rendered":"On conceptions of the divine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With <em>eid <\/em>celebrations being well underway it is good custom to reorientate ourselves to our relationship with the Qur&#8217;an. Being of philosophical <em>substance <\/em>I take this opportunity to discuss some words on devotional nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One may posit the following definition of divinity:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>God is a force<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This seems like a reasonable position to uphold. As the Greeks correlated the extranatural realm with <em>natural <\/em>forces such as the wind and fire and et cetera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another position one can take is <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>God is a ideal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This embodiment is interesting since it makes the concept of the divine more &#8220;graspeable.&#8221; In medieval philosophy God is often characterized as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Actus purus<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Primus movens<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the first sharing similarities to God as an ideal and the second relating to traditional interpretations of the God as the entity whose essence cannot be seperated from its existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My ideal conception is similar to God as a force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With eid celebrations being well underway it is good custom to reorientate ourselves to our relationship with the Qur&#8217;an. Being of philosophical substance I take this opportunity to discuss some words on devotional nature. One may posit the following definition of divinity: This seems like a reasonable position to uphold. As the Greeks correlated the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}