Not exact matches
Obedience is the hallmark of non-equals; obedience as an end unto itself facilitates adaptation to any type of authority — whether merited or demande
Obedience is the hallmark
of non-equals;
obedience as an end unto itself facilitates adaptation to any type of authority — whether merited or demande
obedience as an end unto itself facilitates adaptation to any type
of authority — whether merited or demanded.»
The typical American today finds the idea
of obedience to
authority troubling.
The father's «love» is always conditional — conditional on
obedience and acceptance
of his
authority.
When parents exercise their «unrenounceable
authority» 11 as a service to the well - being
of their children, the children's gifts
of love, respect and
obedience become their specific contribution to the building up
of both Church and society.12
«The revival
of Islam,» says Parvez, «would mean the re-establishment
of a central
authority, a ruler, who would deduce detailed regulations from the Qur» an in accordance with modern needs and conditions and would enforce the collective
obedience of the people.»
Human beings are complex and any doctrine which demands unquestioned
authority and
obedience of an ent.ity that is invisible into that mix will give you the volatile and oft unjust and violent history before you.
«doctrine which demands unquestioned
authority and
obedience of an ent.ity that is invisible into that mix will give you the volatile and oft unjust and violent history before you.»
This sort
of god «lovable and understandable to women» may be unattractive to many men because he can not make absolute claims on us for worship,
obedience, and
authority, or if he makes such claims, we might be justified in challenging him and even charging the claim to his wicked or unfinished side.
Even today Catholics are not dispensed
of obedience) but have to learn that they must willingly also do things that are not obvious to them if they have been decided on by the
authorities of the Church.
The Roman Catechism, issued in 1566, three years after the end
of the Council
of Trent, taught that the power
of life and death had been entrusted by God to civil
authorities and that the use
of this power, far from involving the crime
of murder, is an act
of paramount
obedience to the fifth commandment.
I always wondered how people could talk about the «
authority»
of a poem, or «
obedience» to a poem.
Whenever I felt that our
obedience to or admiration
of a leader was too great, this explanation was always used... that we were serving God, not the person in
authority who was benefiting from...
Whenever I felt that our
obedience to or admiration
of a leader was too great, this explanation was always used... that we were serving God, not the person in
authority who was benefiting from it.
Students, on the other hand, have the duty to render
obedience to teachers within the limits
of their recognized
authority.
«6 Such a God is the author, or the excuse for «the alien power
of the moral imperative» which is «addressed to man from a beyond» and imprisons him «by an
obedience to an external will or
authority.
Modern theology has been largely concerned with reconciling competing commitments: the value
of human freedom with
obedience to divine commands; the scientific account
of the natural world with the doctrine
of creation; the necessity
of critical inquiry with the
authority of revelation.
The beginning
of the exercise
of parental
authority is precisely that: the father's recognition that he has a moral obligation to inculcate in his son the habits
of prudence and
obedience, and thus to protect his son (and the rest
of the family, and possibly the neighborhood) from the boy's own childish irresponsibility.
The emptiness
of isolated existence and the meaningless
of a life that has no goals besides individual gain opens people to accept the
authority of those who promise answers in exchange for conformity and
obedience.
But if verse 19 stresses the lowly
obedience of the Son, verses 22 - 25 stress the
authority of the Son, his judgment, and his gift
of life.
The principles
of obedience, submission, and
authority are clear in both the Old and New Testament.
He speaks
of his
authority and
of thcir
obedience.
We owe
obedience to Jesus because He speaks with the
authority of God.
They draw our attention to issues
of authority and
obedience.
Canons 752 and 753
of the 1983 Code
of Canon Law use the expression «religious
obedience of the intellect and will,» which has become the specific way
of describing adherence to non-infallible statements
of the hierarchical teaching
authority.
of the will and intellect» to designate
obedience toward the hierarchical teaching
authority creates problems, its exclusive application in Lumen gentium 25 to non-infallible teaching
authority is still not clear.
One indication
of this is the emphasis in recent Church documents on
obedience to the hierarchical teaching
authority and on the relationship between hierarchical superiority and subordination.
Even among those who have not been entirely scandalised the celibacy, the commitment to prayer, the
obedience to
authority and the lack
of status and financial remuneration stand in stark contrast to everything they have been taught to value.
First
of all, he has not understood that he himself, according to Jesus, is claimed by God, an
authority experienced as external to himself, and is by Him constrained to decision in the present moment — that God requires from him
obedience.
Reception involves an active assent that signifies an independent judgment
of the recipient and is not simply an act
of obedience to a higher
authority.
Thus a teacher is not and never can be a civil servant... Whatever
authority he may possess to teach and control children, and to claim their respect and
obedience, comes to him from God, through the parents and not through the State, except in so far as the State is acting on behalf
of the parents.
Women can put themselves back in the garden and say to the angels that they understand God's
authority, they can stand in
obedience and submission and in effect stand in place
of Eve and do the opposite
of what she did.
Although the empowerment
of its own members is an important goal for every marginalized social group, by claiming an
authority based in epistemic privilege the group reinscribes the values and practices used to socially marginalize it by excluding its voice, silencing it and commanding its
obedience to the voice
of the dominant group.
It recognizes liberty only in the individual, because it is only in the individual that liberty can be separated from
authority, and the right
of conditional
obedience deprived
of the security
of limited command.
The force
of this first conversation, begun by the Bible's first question, is to call into question
authority and
obedience; by challenging the goodness (3:1) and the truthfulness (3:4)
of the author, by denying the announced consequences
of disobedience (3:4 - 5), and by suggesting attractive alternative benefits
of eating (i.e., goods beyond food and sex, namely, godlikeness though knowledge [3:5]-RRB-, speech and reason erode the force
of the prohibition.
That harmony was the balance
of Gods
authority and mans
obedience.
Used to give it not out
of that tenuous verse in Malachi but out
of the
obedience to
authority in Hebrews 13 I think it was.
That past world, and especially his own personal past, not only presents Simpson with certain data — and this any realistic phenomenology
of experience must recognize — sets itself forth as desirous
of certain conceptual syntheses
of those data and their implied concrete expressions, e.g., honesty, respect for social order,
obedience to duly established
authority, etc..
The poor will not be judged by their
obedience to
authority and their quiet endurance
of earthly misery but are free to be faithful to a God that works for liberation within history, as the Pharaoh unhappily discovered.
It is the product
of centuries
of economic exploitation coupled with a degrading theology that stresses poverty as God's will,
obedience to church and secular
authority, and heavenly rewards.
Since this
obedience is
obedience to a purely formal
authority, in the late Jewish ethic there appears the commingling
of moral and ritual laws, and the overemphasis on ritual and ceremonial rules, which Jesus denounces in the statement that the Pharisees strain out gnats and swallow camels.
With Jesus as in Judaism,
obedience is bound up with the crisis
of decision in which man stands;
obedience is actual only in the moment
of action, and if one wishes to call
obedience an intention, he must at the same time hold fast the fact that this
obedience presupposes the
authority of God.
Moreover
obedience is possible only because man stands immediately under the
authority of God.
The
obedience for which Jesus asks is easy, because it frees a man from dependence on a formal
authority, and therefore frees him also from the judgment
of the men whose profession it is to explain this
authority.
Obligation to
obedience depended no longer upon content but upon formal
authority; not what was commanded determined the will
of the person acting, but the fact that such and such was commanded.
Since the political common good depends on no branch
of government taking more than its share
of authority,
obedience should not be given to an act that violates the foundation
of the rule
of law.
The Instruction was strong once again on
obedience to secular
authority and against «those who shout out against the law
of the land».
`... that all
authority in the last analysis rests on opinion is never more forcefully demonstrated then when, suddenly and unexpectedly, a universal refusal to obey initiates what then turns into a revolution... Unlike human reason, human power is not only «timid and cautious when left alone», it is simply non-existent unless it can rely on others; and the most powerful king and the least scrupulous
of all tyrants are helpless if no one obeys them, that is supports them through
obedience; for, in politics,
obedience and support are the same».
The
obedience that Jesus gave to his Father he expected the people to give to him, for he had not worked from his own
authority but from the
authority of God who sent him.
The real requirement was acceptance
of ecclesiastical
authority and
obedience.
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