Yes, that's exactly what I said from the «ivory tower» of my massive college ministry, that pays me a huge paycheck, and invests me with obscene amounts of cultural
authority and power over people.
Within that tradition, both in its political and ecclesial expression, authority is a way of ordering power within a community in such a way that, at one and the same time, it supports and augments common beliefs and ways of life and is regularly and harmoniously conjoined with a structure of offices that gives order to the exercise of
authority and power within the particular society in question.
Of course, just because someone with
great authority and powers of ratiocination says something is going in a certain direction or should go that way is no determinant it will.
Folks in places like BRIC countries [Brazil, Russia, India, China] are well aware that these are potent technologies in terms of
cultural authority and power over time, and those who eschew cognitive enhancement at any level are likely to fall behind.
Clergy and laypeople spend much of their time debating parochial questions of
internal authority and power, conforming to a white evangelistic model of the church patterned after the approaches of Billy Graham, Robert Schuller or Oral Roberts.
But in opposition to this Bonhoeffer affirms Christ as the basis for government because he is the mediator of creation, the goal of government, its Lord, and its source of authority and power.57
Nonetheless, there is an expectation on the part of society that the law will speak from on high as well as in the people's midst, and that it will make straight what would otherwise remain twisted, crooked lines; it will establish order in the stead of anarchy and chaos; it will retain a semblance of purity amid vile motives and human deceits; it will speak with
godlike authority and power in a godless age.
In this book, he wrote that God gave him
special authority and power, and the people must follow him, obey him, and give him their money.
A faith that names Jesus either as the Son of God or as the prophet of God must be a backward movement to a disincarnate and primordial form of Spirit, a movement annulling the events of the Incarnation and the Crucifixion by resurrecting Jesus either in the form of the exalted Lord or as the proclaimer of an already distant and alien majesty of God: hence an orthodox and priestly Christianity is inevitably grounded in the
sacred authority and power of the past.
Once the Church had claimed to be the body of Christ, it had already set upon the imperialistic path of conquering the world, of bringing the life and movement of the world into submission to the
inhuman authority and power of an infinitely distant Creator and Judge.
But many persons firmly believe that the majority of local congregations, though moribund, are constituted by mission - oriented Baptists; probably the only way to awaken them is to offer them new responsibilities,
authorities and powers at the most immediate locus of need.
In a statement to Premier, the Diocese of Oxford said: «Abuse of
spiritual authority and power falls far short of the obligations and duties of those in Holy Orders.
New York has also deployed military police, National Guard soldiers, state troopers, drone pilots and experts from the
Port Authority and Power Authority to Puerto Rico, as well as four helicopters.
The surplus of food enabled specialized artisanal and administrative skills to flower, and a flourishing trade in raw materials such as copper spurred the evolution of
centralized authority and power — as well as warfare.
Researchers at the school's Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (TCORS) assessed cultural worldviews along two dimensions: hierarchy - egalitarianism (attitudes
toward authority and power) and individualism - communitarianism (focus on self - reliance or responsibility to a larger group) of more than 5,000 people who reported an awareness of electronic nicotine devices (ENDS), which include e-cigarettes.
Glass, a
poaching authority and power behind Captain Andrew Henry's (Domhnall Gleeson, «Ex Machina») captainship over a party of poachers pelting pelts from animals in the wild lands of a recently purchased Louisiana, is one of the few survivors of an ambush led by the Arikara people, whose chief is desperate to find his abducted daughter.
He can sketch the urban landscape in a few deft strokes, his in - the - know references and jam - packed compound adjectives giving his
sentences authority and power.
What lies beneath cultural facades is often a reality that counters and undermines the deception and invention designed to assert and
sustain authority and power.
Focusing on the visual and symbolic relationships
between authority and power, Godoy analyses the social and political ramifications of the real -LSB-...]
Fétiche explores the ways in which contemporary and indigenous works
bestow authority and power within significantly different social structures.
[19] In Australia today, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples do not have genuine decision -
making authority and power over their lives and futures.
They were helpless sheep, tenderly cared for and protected; but they were also subjects of the Supreme Ruler of the Universe; indeed they were the King's sons, with whom it was his sovereign will and fatherly pleasure to share his own
royal authority and power.