Sentences with phrase «coercive power even»

But if this is so, how can process theists still maintain that God would not use coercive power even if it were available?

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Indeed, a theology that does not make clear how the life of faith pertains to the structures of civilization — including even those coercive ones of political power — is truncated.

Even if cognitively meaningful, 83 this notion, according to Ford, presupposes a morally and religiously objectionable understanding of God's power as being coercive.

Let us first assume that a perfect being would only use persuasive power and, thus, that since the God of process theism is perfect, coercive power would never be used even if it were available.

If the Russian government tries to use the coercive power of law to unite them under the Moscow Patriarchate, will the Russian Orthodox Church vigorously protest and insist on the right of Kyivan Patriarchate parishes to exist, even though it regards them as schismatic?

This is why God sometimes approves of (lures us toward) coercion on the human level even though such coercive power would never be used by God even if it were available.

Granted that coercive power is necessary if a State, or even a harmonious lesser order of society, is to exist, several very basic questions remain.

Hence, both Brunner and Niebuhr make much of the need to use coercive power to secure even an approximate justice in human relations.

Therefore while keeping love as the essence of humanness and, therefore, the criterion and goal of all human endeavor, human society today has to eschew utopianism and organize itself as power - structures based on a sense of the moral law of structural justice and utilize even the coercive legal sanctions of the state to preserve social peace and protect the weaker sections of society in a balance of order, freedom and justice.

Therefore while keeping love as the essence of humanness and therefore the criterion and goal of all human endeavour, human society today has to eschew utopianism and organize itself as power - structures based on a sense of the moral law of structural justice and utilize even the coercive legal sanctions of the State to preserve social peace and protect the weaker sections of society in a balance of order.

Even in postlapsarian society much of what government does is untied to its coercive power, and simply structures how individuals of good will interact in economics, politics, and society.

And this did a great deal to prepare the ministers for separation by training them in dependence upon persuasion unbacked by even a possibility of coercive power, and teaching them reliance upon political sagacity and the necessity for very down - to - earth political activity at least in ecclesiastical affairs.

But there was even an effort in that legislation that was being proposed by the government to ensure that we would see coercive powers used against workers rather than used against employers who were intentionally underpaying those workers or other workers in the labour market.

It's the reason why professors are forbidden from having sex with grad students even though they are all adults — the professor holds so much power over the students that its inherently coercive.

Even when they speak for themselves they implicate our collective coercive power over the person.

«As fear is the source of coercive power, and fairness is the source of utility power, so respect, honour and even love constitute the base of principle - centred power.»