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In legal usage in the English-speaking world, an act of God, act of nature, or damnum fatale ("loss arising from inevitable accident") is an event caused by no direct human action (e.g. severe or extreme weather and other natural disasters) for which individual persons are not responsible and cannot be held legally liable for loss of life, injury, or property damage.
In contract law, force majeure [1] [2] [3] (/ ˌ f ɔːr s m ə ˈ ʒ ɜːr / FORSS mə-ZHUR; French: [fɔʁs maʒœʁ]) is a common clause in contracts which essentially frees both parties from liability or obligation when an extraordinary event or circumstance beyond the control of the parties, such as a war, strike, riot, crime, epidemic, or ...
Sancus was the god who protected oaths of marriage, hospitality, law, commerce, and particularly formal contracts.Some of the oaths said at the moment of signing a contract – or other important civil promissory acts – named Sancus as guarantor, and called on him to protect and guard over the honour and integrity of the signatories' pledges.
A Contract with God, a short story collection: in the title story, a man struggles with the events of his life in light of what he believes to be a contract with God. God in the Dock , an anthology of C. S. Lewis ' Christian apologetics expressing his contention that modern human beings, rather than considering themselves as being judged by God ...
Act of God is a legal term for events outside of human control. Act of God or Acts of God may also refer to: Divine intervention, an event attributed to God;
A contemporary worship team leads the congregation in praise and worship. In Charismatic Christianity (including pentecostalism, the charismatic movement, neo-charismatic movement and certain parts of nondenominational Christianity), worship is viewed like an act of adoration of God, with a more informal conception. [8]
According to concursus dei, an event can be simultaneously an act of nature, c.q. humans, and an act of God. Thus, creatures immediately are propelled by God not only according to their origin ( creation ) and conservation in existence, but also in their causal operations .
The Tribute Money, by Titian (1516), depicts Jesus being shown the tribute penny. "Render unto Caesar" is the beginning of a phrase attributed to Jesus in the synoptic gospels, which reads in full, "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's" (Ἀπόδοτε οὖν τὰ Καίσαρος Καίσαρι καὶ τὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ τῷ Θεῷ).