Sentences with phrase «authority over their households»

Patriarchy — a cultural system in which men exercise unilateral authority over their households and (generally) over society — is, according to Burk, God's ideal for this world.

But I don't let those things disqualify me from Christ's strong love, which is surprisingly able to embrace the prodigal son in all of us, and shock us by clothing us in a fine robe and placing the ring of authority over the household on our muddy, pork - contaminated fingers while kissing us over and over and ignoring our whines of contrition.

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The familial structure referenced in the household codes was that of pater familias [father of the family], which positioned the man as the ruler and authority over an economic / familial unit which consisted of the ruling patriarch, his wife, children and slaves.

The structure of that world centered around the pater familias [father of the family] as the ruler and authority over an economic / familial unit — the household, which consisted of the ruling patriarch, his wife, children and slaves.

What makes the New Testament household codes powerful and countercultural is that they actually challenge those hierarchies by instructing all members of the household — even the masters, who in that culture held unilateral authority over their slaves, wives, and children — to imitate Jesus Christ in their relationships by modeling his self - sacrificing love.

You don't have to be the most educated person in Laodicea to know that the Greek philosophers were rather insistent upon the importance of maintaining a household in which the man exercises unilateral authority over his wives, children, and slaves.

Central to the prevailing philosophy of the day was the idea that a free man ruled over his household as a sovereign, exercising unilateral authority over his subordinate wives, children, and slaves.

«Cut down the creeping crawling swarm of vermin at Rome, so that the Pope's household can be supported out of the Pope's own pocket... The Pope should have no authority over the Emperor, except the right to anoint and crown him at the altar.

This will increase the recycling of carton packs across the whole of UK, so the north east campaign is perfect timing as Malcolm Allum, managing director of SIG Combibloc said: «It's been rewarding to see the steady growth in collection and recycling of carton packs in the UK over recent years and the new recycling mill will encourage more local authorities to collect carton packs from kerbside, offering easy access for consumers and hence increasing household recycling rates.

Vehicle crime in car parks costs households in England & Wales # 1 billion a year, yet it costs a typical local authority just over # 2,000 a year to be in the scheme — that's just # 200 per car park.

And those that do want to date other Asians tend to skew to more traditional relationship gender roles, such as expecting the woman to choose family over career or to do the entirety of household chores without ever questioning the man's authority.

The female head of a household; a woman who has authority over servants, attendants, or slaves (now chiefly arch.

Section 1 (1) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (CDA 1998) enables an application for an ASBO to be made by local and other relevant authorities if it appears to the authority that a person aged 10 or over has acted in an anti-social manner, ie one that has caused or is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to one or more persons not of the same household (see s 1 (1)(a)-RRB- and that such an order is necessary to protect relevant persons from further anti-social acts by that person (see s 1 (1)(b)-RRB-.

RiverRidge is the largest independent waste management operator in Northern Ireland, treating over 400,000 mt of waste each year on behalf of local authorities, commercial businesses and individual households.

The proportions of Indigenous households renting from Indigenous or mainstream community housing organisations and those renting from private or other providers, fell by around two percentage points between 2001 and 2006, while the proportion of Indigenous households renting from state housing authorities remained relatively unchanged over this period.