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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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;
Lobgesang (Hymn of Praise), Op. 52 (MWV A 18 [1]), is an 11-movement "Symphony-Cantata on Words of the Holy Bible for Soloists, Choir and Orchestra" by Felix Mendelssohn.After the composer's death it was published as his Symphony No. 2 in B-flat major, a naming and a numbering that are not his.
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 .
Although the poem brought him praise, it did not bring the material benefit he had hoped for. [40] The poem later appeared in Miscellany of Poems (1731), edited by John Husbands, a Pembroke tutor, and is the earliest surviving publication of any of Johnson's writings. Johnson spent the rest of his time studying, even during the Christmas holiday.
Pulpit of St. Pierre Cathedral, where John Calvin preached Rather than preaching on the appointed gospel , as was the common practice at the time Zwingli preached through consecutive books of the Bible, [ 1 ] a practice known as lectio continua which he learned from reading the sermons of John Chrysostom . [ 22 ]