Sentences with phrase «as absolute power»

Finally, just as absolute power can corrupt absolutely, so the lure of vast funds, and the pressure to show quick and major results, can produce very damaging behavior.

However this may be, the fact is plain that for contemporary men and women, not only of a sophisticated sort but also of quite ordinary attainments, the notion of God as absolute power, as unyielding moral dictator, and as metaphysical first cause never Himself affected, has gone dead.

The essence of God was regarded as absolute power and will.

When we as human beings view ourselves as the absolute power in this world... our own nature fails us.

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«It's very important as a professional and as a brand to exude that sense of absolute control and power until it's really organic and integral,» she says.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, better known simply as Lord Acton, is most often remembered for his frequently quoted observation that «power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.»

Starlin saw Eastern Orthodox as a threat to his absolute power, and Hitler was Jews as a convenient political and economic scapegoat.

Drawing upon The Courage To Be, Scott is aware of three characteristics of «absolute faith»: (1) To live in the power of being that enables a person to withstand the onslaughts of guilt, death, and meaninglessness; (2) To experience the dependence of all manifestations of nonbeing upon being, such as the dependence of meaninglessness upon meaning, thereby testifying to the ultimacy of being - itself; and (3) To accept being accepted in spite of one's separation from the power of being (AC 95f).

To treat any item in the universe, including status quo power arrangements and «understandings» of God, as in some way «absolute» or inherently «sacred» is idolatry.

Because of this, as Mormon philosopher David Paulsen observes, «God does not have absolute power.»

If the Christian acts as mediator or advocate, as representative of the poor, it is not to get little concessions or to conciliate points of view or to harmonize opposing interests; no, it is to plead the cause of absolute misery before absolute power (power is always absolute!)

They did this because Communism as a religion enabled them the same absolute power that kings used to claim as a result of religion.

Nearly half a century on, in his wittily entitled Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes (1984), Hartshorne reviewed two meanings of «all - powerful»: the traditional, of course — the (benevolent) tyrant ideal of absolute, all determining, irresistible power18 — and what he previously had identified as the greatest possible power in a universe of multiple centers of power: «The only livable doctrine of divine power is that it influences all that happens but determines nothing in its concrete particularity.»

Bonhoeffer also believed that the concept of God as a «supreme Being, absolute in power and goodness,» was a «spurious conception of transcendence,» and that «God as a working hypothesis in morals, politics, and science... should be dropped, or as far as possible eliminated» (Letters and Papers from Prison, S.C.M. Press edition, Great Britain: Fontana Books, 1953, pp. 122, 164, 360).

Christianity, for its part, is not so much a new thing as a prolonged episode within the greater history of nihilism, notable chiefly for having brought part of this history's logic to its consummation by having invented the metaphysical God, the form of all forms, who grounds all of being in himself as absolute efficient cause, and who personifies that cause as total power and will.

Hartshorne attributes this consistent violation of the principle of dual transcendence to the fact that classical theism has placed too much faith in Greek philosophy, and to a Western prejudice according to which absolute independence along with the power to the cause of events is regarded as a superior attribute while relativity and the capacity to be an effect is mistakenly regarded as an inferior attribute.»

Regulations in family and classroom can be used as a basis for developing a high concept of law, when they are presented as approximations to right — not as arbitrary impositions, not as expressions of superior power, not as absolute rules which can never be questioned or modified.

The pessimistic attitude of the Semitic mind toward the world as a fleeting shadow, the notion that it has value only as a place in which man prepares himself for a more permanent life, led to the conception that God is the absolute sovereign power which rules all things, including man and his actions.

Decisions such as this could give a green light to absolute state power, which is the stuff of tyranny.

The elements that make up this absolute Good are what we term ideas (attributes, qualities) of God, such as life, love, substance, power, wisdom... joy, strength, plenty, and every other good thing.»

John B. Cobb, Jr., and David Ray Griffin have expanded the list of metaphors which are unacceptable in a Whiteheadian conception of God to include five: God as cosmic moralist, God as the unchanging and passionless absolute, God as controlling power, God as sanctioner of the status quo, God as male (PT 8 - 10).

Communist evil, Niebuhr said, resulted from its monopoly of power (absolute power over other men producing evils worse than injustice), its utopianism (attribution of the source of evil to something outside man — private property), its faith in revolution (a substitute religion), and its dogmatism (ideology masquerading as science).

It is precisely this which does not seem to be made sufficiently intelligible if we simply say that it comes about and is possible precisely because the absolute and infinite operative power of God has this act as its term.

The outcome here, alas, is that power has won out over love even as the God of absolute omnipotence has been seen to have expired.

Even so, the power of good is always seen as the prior and absolute power, not dependent on human nature but always working directly.

As Hartshorne also points out, «The supposition that our power of «introspection» is absolute, so that, unless we can consciously detect a factor in an experience it does not contain the factor, is one of the many forms of the supposition that man is as God would be — equipped with infallibility» (CSPM 79As Hartshorne also points out, «The supposition that our power of «introspection» is absolute, so that, unless we can consciously detect a factor in an experience it does not contain the factor, is one of the many forms of the supposition that man is as God would be — equipped with infallibility» (CSPM 79as God would be — equipped with infallibility» (CSPM 79).

We defy God by asserting our own power and goodness as absolute, or we try to flee from ourselves.

In various combinations and with differing emphases, the concept of God with which many Christian thinkers have tended to work has been composed of exactly those ingredients; absolute power, stark moral demand, and unconditioned (essentially unrelated, in the sense of a two - way movement) «being - itself» as the ultimate cause of everything not - God, but not in anyway affected by that which was not itself — and the neuter here is highly significant, ens realissimum.

6 In view of this fundamental metaphysical conception of the relation between God and the world, Cobb's understanding of the otherness of God as absolute nearness can be seen as a way of affirming the sovereign and primordial power of God.

Recognizing that their critique has rendered images of God no longer absolute, feminists have discovered that the religious power structure is reluctant to admit that patriarchal symbols for God are culturally influenced (as if God really were male) or contingent (as if use of a feminine symbol to point to a nonrepresentable God is more inadequate or idolatrous than use of a male symbol) To read Mary Daly or Naomi Goldenberg, to consider Rosemary Ruether's demasculinizing of the Gospel stories or to ponder the renewed attention to «goddess» theology and the development of a lesbian theology is to see the basic language of theological discourse upset and transformed.

For Augustinians there is never an absolute disjunction between intellectual and mystical experience, for all experience has the power and truth of God's being as its ground.

Still others looked for a universal quality of feeling, such as absolute dependence (Schleiermacher), power (van der Leeuw) or awe (Otto).

And if he is indeed, what the Christian believes him to be, a loving as well as a living God, then it is obvious that he can not be seen in abstraction from the world which he loves; for love signifies relationship, and the richest perfection possible is perfection in relationships and not «absolute power» or unchanging substance.

That certain concepts of God, often in the past confused with the classical Christian doctrine of God, must be destroyed: for example, God as problem solver, absolute power, necessary being, the object of ultimate concern.

Nor do we see, behind what appears to be a kind - hearted philosophy, an utter denial of any dimension beyond this present observable life, of any such thing as absolute right or wrong and of any power which might be called God.

When we have deduced what we deduce by our reason and from study of visible nature, and then read what we read in His inspired word, and find the two apparently discordant, this is the feeling I think we ought to have on our minds» not an impatience to do what is beyond our powers, to weigh evidence, sum up, balance, decide, and reconcile, to arbitrate between the two voices of God» but a sense of the utter nothingness of worms such as we are; of our plain and absolute incapacity to contemplate things as they really are; a perception of our emptiness, before the great Vision of God....

In other words, Christian martyrdom is based on opposition to the power which takes itself as an absolute point of reference.

Actually David I am convinced the deal WILL go through and was always optimistic we would get Auba as soon as it was reported we would be trying to sign him.Why?Because I believe Ivan G is implementing the changes at the club that is the beginning of removing the absolute power Wenger has enjoyed at the club for far too long.From what I understand the negotiating team have been in Dortmund all week (and they haven't been kicking a ball around or putting fairy liquid in the fountains I've seen all 4 times I've visited the City).

oh gooner 100... as much as i find u quite irritating at times in your comments this post is relevant i would of course counter with... how much power is ivan given, yes we understand how club hierarchies work, but many including board members have said wengers power is near absolute.

In this environment, large public companies almost inevitably appear as hierarchies based on the absolute power of the Board of Directors, driven by the ethos of short - term gain for executives and corporate shareholders.

The complainants (who at the moment will remain anonymous) even alleged that they was willing to go to News 12 and the Journal News to expose the actions of Mr. Lafayette concerning the process to challenge the signatures, fraudulently having people on Democratic voter rolls and abusing his absolute power over the voting process as Westchester democratic chairman, Mount Vernon City Committee Chairman and Westchester County Democratic Commissioner of Elections which they felt was illegal in nature and the DA's office was against the complainants going public with their complaints.

Gordon Brown mocked him (6 July 1992) as having «absolute power over a department which has become absolutely powerless» and «the tiger that was once the king of the jungle is now just the fireside rug — decorative and ostentatious, but essentially there to be walked all over».

this is about power and as we know absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Once viewed as imposing absolute limits on knowledge and technology, quantum theory is now expanding the power of computers and the vistas of the mind

South Korea should reduce its reliance on nuclear power as advised by a working group last month but should clarify how many new reactors will be added in absolute terms, participants at a public congressional hearing said on Thursday.

Translating contributions into absolute emission levels requires further information, as does assessing the transformative power of the INDCs and their long - term implications for emission trajectories.

The term CNS is used here as a convention - really, there are no absolute theories on WHAT fatigues your nervous system or how to measure it, but what we do know is that max or high percentage submaximal lifting can degrade your absolute power output, fine motor control, etc. without proper recovery.

This chart should not be taken as an absolute, and remember if you have been doing high rep sets for the past 3 months, you are not going to be able to handle the 1 rep max that the math says you should, due to lack of tendon strength and raw power neccesary to lift low rep weights.

As the saying goes, «Absolute power corrupts absolutely.»

In an absolute monarchy, the monarch rules as an autocrat, with absolute power over the state and government — for example, the right to