Pius XII, in a further clarification of the standard argument, holds that when the State, acting by its ministerial power, uses the death penalty, it does not exercise
dominion over human life but only recognizes that the criminal, by a kind of moral suicide, has deprived himself of the right to life.
Not exact matches
Its principal features are: a three - storied universe consisting of heaven, earth, and underworld; the intervention of natural and supernatural powers in
human life; the
dominion of evil spirits and Satan
over that
life and also
over the external realm of nature; the imminent end in time of this present world - æon.
It is rather that the Word and the church will be interpreted to them as God's will for the freedom of man to
live a
human life, to fight against the demonic forces of his own nature that seek
dominion over social as well as personal
life, to order his
life by structures of love and justice relevant to the conditions of society.