Sentences with phrase «ascribe coercive power»

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If by power we intend to signify, as most often is intended, the use of coercive measures whether these be overt or subtle and hidden, then it would seem that to ascribe such a quality to God as His chief characteristic — as in fact, if not in word, is suggested when people talk as did my questioner — is a denial of the point of Christ's disclosure of God.