Sentences with phrase «by the divine right of»

The old Empire, backed by the divine right of kings, was gone, replaced by a far weaker Roman - style military dictatorship... a dictatorship that had lost a war and fallen under High Elf control.

«By divine right of mayoralty, or someone, 13 vehicles waited at the curb in a no - standing zone, among them four black S.U.V.s (three Chevy Suburbans and one Yukon XL) an ambulance, a huge E.M.S. vehicle and a police school safety van.

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«The Pope takes the place of Jesus Christ on earth... by divine right the Pope has supreme and full power in faith, in morals over each and every pastor and his flock.

It carried to fulfillment a long development of thought, disentangling persons from submergence in the social mass and giving to each one status, meaning, and rights of his own; it concentrated attention on the spiritual value of personality and its possibilities; it created a religion to be entered by free personal choice, regardless of race or nation; it set persons to building a social fellowship for the redemption of souls; and it proclaimed as the ultimate goal of divine creation and human hope the kingdom of God in «new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.»

In Jesus» thinking, God was so committed to the support of right choices that the divine resources could be counted on by all who threw their wills on the right side.

... Not only can there be no conflict between faith and reason, they also support each other since right reason demonstrates the foundations of the faith and, illumined by its light, pursues the science of divine things, while faith frees and protects reason from errors and provides it with manifold insights.

Nevertheless it must also be emphasized that such law is not left to the arbitrary will of the authorities only because it exists by custom or by a legal act and is therefore of human, not divine right.

Now, that divine guidance is trampled by the lost sheep of the Christian right that has trampled on everything Christianity stands for.

As the «outpouring» of the Spirit had come, unsought, in consequence of the life, death and resurrection of Christ, so the «indwelling» of the Spirit was the means by which He continued to form, guide and govern His Church out of the unseen world, where He was now invested with divine authority «at the right hand of God».

The kings were commissioned by God and responsible to Him, but they tended to sublimate the irresponsibility into a divine right granted without obligation and to regard their anointing as demanding of them a merely cultic acknowledgment of YHVH's kingship.

To fail to be one's true human self is to fail in maintaining on one's part the right relationship with God in the divine intention for mankind and at the same moment a failure in right relationships with other men and women and children, characterized as it should be by the caring, sharing, giving, and receiving which brings about a condition of peace and concord — which is shalom or abundance of life.

It requires a theological fascism to justify this kind of arbitrary use of power by God; for the view to which Khayyám and Hartshorne object, in the divine case, at least, might makes right.

Here, too, it is apparent, was the principle basic to the entire attitude of the prophets and other progressive thinkers toward the monarchy: the king ruled, not by divine right, but under divinely imposed responsibility.

These suggest a vision which revealed Jesus in his heavenly glory at the right hand of the divine throne, not unlike that seen by the martyr Stephen when he looked up to heaven and «saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at God's right hand».47 So Goguel comments, «When we consider the part played by the faith in the resurrection in Paul's religious life and thought as a result of Christ's appearance to him, we see that most essential to his faith was not the feeling that Jesus had returned to the environment of his life on earth preceding his passion but a belief in his glorification, i.e. in his transition to life in heaven where death has no more dominion over him.»

Reese responds, «If someone is called to the priesthood by God but denied it by church officials, then it is not a violation of a human right; it is a violation of a divine right — the right of God to call whomever he chooses to the priesthood.»

But the church was wrong when it drew out of this a doctrine of the divine right of kings, as the church would be wrong today in sanctifying the American form of government as the only one mandated by God.

So Jesus is that One in whom the deepest and highest reality, divine Love, which is the mystery behind all things and the meaning of all things, is made decisively visible and tangible in a manhood that is our own and in terms that we can understand and grasp, and by which we can be grasped and thus directed on the path of right and true human development.

We live in a land that has made the accumulation of stuff a divine right AND a divine attribute surrounded by a consumer culture that has «shoved us into it's mold» while we weren't looking.

It is precisely in trying to discern as to how the «will of God» has been understood by different churches - those in countries who claimed some kind of divine right not only to colonize, but also to theologise - that we ought to locate the problematization of «differences.»

Both in its generally moral sense as right action and in its specifically political sense as right structures of society and culture, justice implies that it realizes the same divine interest in the interests of all that is expressed by God's own work of creation.

damn right: Barth wrote: «it speaks to and is heard by us as the authentic witness to divine revelation and is therefore present as the Word of God.»

Is it not by means of perversely appealing to such an undefined «criterion,» which is said to transcend «all rules of positive law» and «therefore [to] rest on some other foundation,» that the door is opened to the «transcendent» or «divine» or absolutist rights of those who do evil even as they claim to stand above the law?

I think James Cone is right when he says: «Theologians of the Christian Church have not interpreted Christian ethics as an act for the liberation of the oppressed because their views of divine revelation were defined by philosophy and other cultural values rather than by the biblical theme of God as the liberator of the oppressed.»

However, as governmental authority rested on the notion of divine right, it was threatened by those who denied the existence of the local god.

By contrast, some Anglican divines in the first part of the seventeenth century taught that kings ruled by divine right or authoritBy contrast, some Anglican divines in the first part of the seventeenth century taught that kings ruled by divine right or authoritby divine right or authority.

The strife caused by the spread of Calvinism, the attempt of the monarchy to create a royal religion which could not be used to undermine monarchic authority, and the resistance to a coercive and intolerant state all created a place for religious discussion about tyrannicide, contract theory, divine right, and religious tolerance.

It can not he taken to sanction the accumulation of goods and possessions and economic power in disproportionate, and inevitably unjust and unrighteous, measure by attempting to restrain, on divine authority, those whose rights have been fundamentally abused in the process.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

An attempt was made to secure the adoption of a clear - cut statement that the church has no rights for which it can properly demand recognition by the state except such as can be stated in terms of the rights of citizens to freedom of thought, expression, assembly and organization; but the idea of special rights for the church as a divine institution was too strongly entrenched.

But we should grasp the obvious truth that in a society where what is supposed to be good and right is imposed either by some supposed divine fiat or by required conformity to «what the Joneses do,» there is, in fact, no possibility of genuine moral principles involving both human freedom and human accountability.

They think they have a divine right to win everything and get annoyed by the lack of spending.

No club has a divine right to stay at the top and those clubs which have done so, do so because they are well run by real professionals who keep themselves abreast of what is going on in the football world RIGHTright to stay at the top and those clubs which have done so, do so because they are well run by real professionals who keep themselves abreast of what is going on in the football world RIGHTRIGHT NOW.

Whilst some fans point to the lack of titles as the evidence of failure, my personal frustrations has been from repeated mistakes like the lack of investment in transfers and tactical issues on the pitch, because I strongly believe that no team has the divine right to any trophy just by turning up.

The Avengers, by their demands, are pressing, at gunpoint, their divine right, and that of their pan-Nigeria confederates, to loot the public till!

The unexpected sacking and replacement of Rosie Winterton by Nick Brown has seen her defenestration treated as if the office was hers by divine right.

With time, the mental images become more detailed, and they often become buttressed by a distorted sense of what is just or moral, such as the need to avenge a perceived offense or the belief in a divine right to decide the fate of others.

Blessed with the predestination of lineage, the hero inevitably becomes the hero he or she was destined to be since time immemorial — a revelation that precludes any greater awareness of the world (and effectively quiets the revolutionary kernel of the Robin Hood legend) in favor of a self - centered heroism granted by divine right.

It's each of our basic needs, duty and the purpose for the art of right living by understanding the natural state of each soul, with compassion, liberty and solidarity within to protect the dignity of our divine life and living as a means for keeping us united as oneness in nature to balance natural health.

But their separate worlds are thrown into chaos by the theft of Belshazzar's Scroll, an ancient relic that grants its possessor the divine right to rule over all the clans.

There's perhaps even money to be made by tricking readers who want free books and feel they have the divine right to get everything free — let some other company make money from these readers of bad intent.

Or you can skip this disciplined approach and engage in the guessing game of trying to divine the market's future moves and capitalize on them by shifting your money from stocks to cash and back again — and hope you luck out and get it right.

Nefarious tactics send Kai Tana and her teleporting Quarp Jet to a galaxy ruled by the evil Vokh, a tyrannical race of aliens who believe they have a divine right to rule the universe.

If liberty and life are considered «divine rights,» then why not ensure these are no longer threatened by the liberalization of laws that permit assault weapons in the public realm and into the hands of those with malicious intentions.