Sentences with phrase «coercive agency»

(Adventures of Ideas, New York: The Free Press, 1967, 170) Whitehead replaces the characterization of God as an absolute despot with the Platonic conviction»... that the divine element in the world is to be conceived as a persuasive agency and not as a coercive agency.»

In Plato's writing, Whitehead found what he proclaimed to be one of the greatest intellectual discoveries in the history of religion — «that the divine element in the world is to be conceived as a persuasive agency and not as a coercive agency» (AI 166).

Not exact matches

Christian agencies should be deliberate and overt (though not offensive or coercive) in addressing spiritual needs as well as physical ones.

By this I mean that although love will not use coercive measures, driving people to do what they will not do otherwise, making them (as the phrase has it) act in contradiction to their own freely chosen decision, love is the most powerful of all agencies in the world.

But, as we have seen, any such coercive measures depend upon creaturely agencies partially beyond God's control.

The doctrine that the divine element in the world is to be conceived as a persuasive agency, not a coercive one, should be looked upon, says Whitehead, as one of the greatest discoveries in the history of religion (Whitehead 1933, 196).

To some extent this can be said for all Christian theology, but many theologies have attributed to God coercive as well as persuasive agency.

The Trump administration released a memorandum, stating that «there is no evidence that UNFPA directly engages in coercive abortions or involuntary sterilizations in China» but said nevertheless the agency «continues to partner with [China's family planning agency] on family planning, and thus can be found to support, or participate in the management of China's coercive policies.»

Agency fee payers have begun taking aim at coercive union dues.

The cardholder may find that he or she has to deal with daily calls and visits from the debt collectors, which can be quite intimidating despite the fact that consumer protection agencies prohibit the use of harassment or coercive tactics by debt collection agencies.

Of these, coercive controlling violence (CCV; also called intimate terrorism and commonly referred to as domestic violence, spousal abuse, or battery) is the type of intimate partner violence that workers in community or agency settings — hospitals and clinics, domestic abuse or homeless shelters, public safety or law enforcement departments, courts and the legal system — are most likely to encounter (Coker, Smith, McKeown, & King, 2000; Graham - Kevan & Archer, 2003; Johnson, 2006).