There certainly was a sliding scale of familiarity
between servants and their employers.
What's the difference between older and younger generations of servants vis - à - vis their respect for hierarchy, and
between the servants at Beechwood versus Upleigh?
The merit of Gosford Park, apart from its impressive ensemble acting and mise en scene, is its smartness about the relations
between servants and their employers, not its insights into the nature of either class (which The Rules of the Game has in abundance).
It is a deft mocking of the relationship
between servants and their masters, with fantastic performances all around.
The backstairs conversations
between servant and mistress, the official missive from one king to another, the Syrian «dissing» of the River Jordan.
In content the difference
between the Servant of Isa.
Amidst all of this chaos are conflicts of old traditions and new, questions of responsibility, family secrets, and even an upstairs / downstairs division
between servant and employer.
Despite sourcing Wil Haygood's Washington Post article «A Butler Well Served by this Election», this is very much an uneven, fictional account that recklessly uses Allen's biographical details to ask about the separation
between servant and slave, while filtering these characters through the various decades of racial tension and the Civil Rights Movement of America.
Not exact matches
Starting in the mid-1980s, researchers from University College London spent twenty years examining the relationship
between sleep patterns and life expectancy in more than 10,000 British civil
servants.
As the vision for the connecting tunnel
between Folkestone and Calais became more concrete, Ministry of Defence (MoD) civil
servants and senior military officers drew up the nuclear plan in order to thwart a possible invasion by the Soviet army from Calais, The Independent has discovered.
A shrewder pick might have been the new Bank of Canada governor, Stephen Poloz, who earns
between $ 431,800 and $ 507,900 (the federal government discloses only pay ranges for top public
servants).
The life - affirming relationship
between master and
servant was stymied.
Holloway and John Paul II on Priestly Loving It is interesting to see the similarities
between Fr Holloway and the
Servant of God John Paul II in speaking about the vocation of the priest to make present in his soul and in his flesh the loving of Christ.
Central to Boyd's thesis is the contrast
between the «power - over» approach of worldly kingdoms and the «power - under» (
servant - like) approach of Jesus Christ and his followers.
Give thy
servant therefore an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern
between good and evil.
He prayed, «Give your
servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, that I may discern
between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?»
The tension
between artist and public
servant keeps Bono open and alive.
In the A cycle, which we are using this liturgical year, the Old Testament reading is from one of the
Servant Songs in Isaiah, establishing the link between the baptism of Jesus and the mission of the Servant of the Lord: «Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him, he will bring forth justice to the nations...
Servant Songs in Isaiah, establishing the link
between the baptism of Jesus and the mission of the
Servant of the Lord: «Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him, he will bring forth justice to the nations...
Servant of the Lord: «Behold my
servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him, he will bring forth justice to the nations...
servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him, he will bring forth justice to the nations...»
Give thy
servant therefore an under - standing heart to judge thy people, that I may discern
between good and evil.
He shows us that our sense of the alternatives — that we must choose
between the Jesus of history and the Christ of faith,
between prophet and institution,
between catastrophic kingdom and inner kingdom
between being political and being sectarian,
between the individual and the social — derives not from categories intrinsic to the human condition but from a depoliticization of salvation that has made Christianity a faithful
servant of the status quo.
The unity
between the personal
servant and the
servant Israel passes over to their unity in suffering.
It seems to me that the motto or title of the Holy Father as «
Servant of the
servants of God» is possibly the most promising key to reconciliation
between the East and the West.
Now the contrast is not
between owner and thief, right or wrong entry and the true gate, but
between owner and hired
servant,
between the one who runs from the wolf and the One who lays down his life for the sheep.
Soelle has suggested that the traditional distinction
between God and the world is captured in a set of «godly» / «worldly» dualisms — Creator / Created, Lord /
Servant, Maker / Made, Artist / Artifact, Will or form / Stuff or matter, Cause / Effect, Subject / Object.
The suffering
servant is rather one who can sustain a relationship involving great contrast, in this case the incompatibility
between love and hate.
We are more than
servants or witnesses, because we are enabled to speak as if we are, like our king, free to be intimate with God; God has stepped across the distance
between ourselves and heaven, and has brought us close to him.
The apostolic church, in reflecting on Jesus the Messiah, the Suffering
Servant, the Victor, came to understand him preeminently as the Peacemaker
between God and humanity and
between the divisions within humanity.
First off, this ignores the distinction
between Israelite indentured
servants and foreign slaves which were explicitly described as personal property of the slave owner which could be passed on to the slave owner's descendants.
Followers are not indifferent to Jackson's failings or ignorant of the crevasse
between his ethical exhortations and his own deeds, but they are able to locate him in a religious tradition that has long taught that God can and does act through the most imperfect of
servants.
The parable of the unforgiving
servant, which follows the exchange
between Peter and Jesus, focuses on those who are willing to receive God's forgiveness but are unwilling to offer it to others.
God's
servant would be buried in a rich man's tomb Bible prophecy: Isaiah 53:9 Prophecy written:
Between 701 - 681 BC Prophecy fulfilled: About 31 AD
Bible prophecy: Isaiah 53:12 Prophecy written:
Between 701 - 681 BC Prophecy fulfilled: About 31 AD In Isaiah 53:12, the prophet wrote about a
servant who would bear the sins of others and be punished side - by - side with criminals.
To explain the resemblance
between the «poems of the
Servant of Yahweh» and Christ's ministry by supposing that the former contains a clairvoyant prediction of the latter, is, of course, to turn the relationship
between the two upside down.
God's
servant would be silent before his accusers Bible prophecy: Isaiah 53:7 Prophecy written:
Between 701 - 681 BC Prophecy fulfilled: About 31 AD
God's
servant would die for our sins Bible prophecy: Isaiah 53:4 - 6 Prophecy written:
Between 701 - 681 BC Prophecy fulfilled: About 31 AD
48 The Arabic word Sakhkhara is used in the Qur» an to define the relationship
between human and non - human.49 Sakhkhara means to constrain or compel a
servant or a beast to do what it does not desire.
Throughout human history this conflict
between the «
servants of Heaven» and the «
servants of earth» has gone on; but only since the birth of the idea of Evolution (in some sort divinising the Universe) have the devotees of earth bestirred themselves and made of their worship a true form of religion, charged with limitless hope, striving and renunciation.
The
servant takes on himself the afflictions and iniquities of Israel and the nations, and through his sufferings he carries forward the covenant
between God and Israel, the covenant to hallow the whole of community life, which Israel has not fulfilled.
They may be called the dogmatic and the pragmatic; or the a priori and the empirical; or the theological and the sociological; or, as one speaker defined them, a dogmatism which makes an absolute separation
between the world and God and refuses to let the church be held responsible for anything that happens in the world, and a «pseudo-religious activism» which would make the church the
servant of every benevolent or reforming impulse.
Jesus» prophecies about Jerusalem in Luke represent another way in which people are tempted to escape the gap
between effort and result, and to avoid the hard lessons of patience, endurance and even suffering that go with being a
servant of God.
@Topher,... and the distinction
between that and «The Law Concerning
Servants» just a few verses later (Ex 21:1 - 17)?
Claudio Yacob and James Morrison have been fine
servants to the club, with 443 appearances
between them, Jake Livermore has impressed since signing from Hull City in January and Darren Fletcher has continued to act as the heartbeat — the Scot has been ever - present since arriving from Manchester United in January in 2015.
There is half a chance Ed Miliband will want to mention the latter, but the appalling breakdown of trust
between senior civil
servants and the coalition's head honchos isn't entirely about politics.
Whether it's the tribal sense of knowing who your gang is, and why you're opposed to the other gang, or the close knit friendship of long working relationships and shared experiences of highs and lows, the connections forged
between public
servants are strong, if just as flawed and occasionally destructive as those in the outside world.
It's time to end the toxic, master and
servant, relationship
between Westminster and town hall elites that has presided over the managed decline of our region.
Okupe in a sheer reference noted that Ogun State, was receiving N2 billion monthly from the federation account
between 2008 and 2009, but was paying out about N1.8 billion as staff salaries, wages and overhead costs to civil
servants during the period.
As a result of this, often cosy relationships are formed
between defence contractors, politicians and civil
servants.
Government could use parliamentary committees to look at proposals and identify problems in advance — pre-legislative scrutiny in practice doesn't match its current remit, and there is a need to bring back «in - house» a lot of work that was traditionally done by civil
servants but has been outsourced, with an unhealthy relationship
between the private sector and consultants.
Regardless of the rights and the wrongs of this particular case it does raise very important questions about the relationship
between ministers and civil
servants.
«It exposes in a very stark way that the present conventions on accountability
between civil
servants and ministers to Parliament and the public aren't working,» PAC chair Margaret Hodge told Today.