Sentences with phrase «coercive elements»

There is no question for him of the massive importance of the coercive elements in any society.

Generally speaking, this poses no problem as long as both the persuasive and the coercive elements are balanced against one another, and the only issue concerns the relative importance of each.

Is it not a sign of weak faith or bad faith to force coercive elements in public life to propagate what voluntary ones do not?

Ford sympathizes, noting that the Old Testament's «dominant experience of divine power seems to emphasize coercive elements, with the symbols for power drawn heavily from the military and political spheres» (LG 15).

In the remainder of this chapter we shall isolate features that illustrate divine persuasion drawn from the areas of creation, providence, and biblical authority, reserving for the next chapter the difficult theme of the interaction of persuasive and coercive elements within the biblical image of God as king.

The coercive element in such preaching is thinly disguised.

As the La Crosse plan attests, and as controlled - choice options based on race (such as that in use in Boston) confirm, unless neighborhoods are economically integrated, the only way to facilitate desegregation is through some coercive element, such as quotas.

It also carries a coercive element: «If you don't do what I want, you'll be punished,» through criticism, harassment or abuse on the part of the demander, or rejection, abandonment and withdraw of affection by the distancer.

Not exact matches

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).

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).

The real curiosity, however, is that such advocates want the government and the public schools — the coercive, not the voluntary, elements of American life — to propagate the tradition.

For a vigorous defense of the claim that a process model of divine power includes both coercive and persuasive elements, see J. Gerald Janzen, «Modes of Power and the Divine Relativity,» Encounter,» 36/4 (Autumn 1975), 379 - 406.

(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.»

Every review I've read of «The Girl on the Train» lavishes the same praise, that you did James, for ELFMAN»S score that is «the lone creative element to command coercive interest... his music makes the film seem good from time to time.»

To the extent that the government can use its coercive power to define elements of an offense, render a judgment against you (in civil court) and enforce it, as cpast observes, it is government action.

This pathway is characterized by three elements: the onset of conduct problems (such as developmentally excessive levels of aggression, noncompliance, and other oppositional behaviour) in the preschool and early school - age years; a high degree of continuity throughout childhood and into adolescence and adulthood; and a poor prognosis.1, 2 The most comprehensive family - based formulation for the early - starter pathway has been the coercion model developed by Patterson and his colleagues.3, 4 The model describes a process of «basic training» in conduct - problem behaviours that occurs in the context of an escalating cycle of coercive parent - child interactions in the home, beginning prior to school entry.