Divine Power and Magic

One of the oldest debates in the Lower Realms is the nature of how the practitioners of “Divine Power” fit into the scheme of the Magical Paths and schools of thought. This actually tends to differ mainly on which side of the debate you fall on. 
While members in the Magical community will happily identify Cleric practices as Hermetic or a Druid Circle using Shamanic Path methods, those on the religious side will often claim that those labels don’t do their actions justice. That they are divinely gifted with power from the Gods, the world itself or some other divine source. This explanation does not fly with the Magisters’ Guild who cynically claim that there is no difference.
While the debate may never be settled, there are some distinct differences between the commonly thought practices of Hermetic and Shamanic Paths and the wielders of Divine Magic. Mostly in technique. The signs and sounds used in a Cleric spell will not be the same ones a Bard or Wizard would have learned in Brighthurst. 
Druid magic may share the same core tenants of Shamanic magic, but they don’t tap into the Flow directly. Instead beseeching nature to give up the Arcane energy that the Flow bequeaths them in a strange combination of both Hermetic and Dwarven Runic Magic. 
Stranger still are people like the Paladins, who draw on the Arcane Flow not through ritual nor raw forceful manipulation but through summoning power from the Flow with shear strength of will and devotion to their cause.
So it remains unclear as to what power the Divine actually holds in regards to magic. While there is little evidence to support the ‘Gods put Divine Power within us’ theory that the Church espouses about its Clerics, there is something unique about those who practice magic out of religious habit rather than academic pursuit.