Sentences with phrase «exercise of that power»

CFPB is not simply attempting to ratify an exercise of power by an official whose appointment... was invalid.

Naming / defining is an exercise of power over others, so perhaps naming other persons made in the Divine image, with the potential to become godlike, by labeling them «believers» or «unbelievers» is a failure to see all people as God sees them, children of the one true God.

As Reay Tannahill points out, this «was the exercise of power without responsibility — the same type of power women exercised in churches.

Sheer exercise of power somehow does not get at the heart of what characterizes God's activity.

And besides, the very next moment he would begin to confront the results of the choices, the exercises of power, granted to the creatures, and from then on his actual state, as constituting his knowledge, goodness, and power relations, would be as we have described it.

So Luther could say that the exercise of power by the authorities of law and government constitutes the «alien work» of God, not his «proper work.»

If God is «omnipotent in the sense of being the only power there is... where there is not competing power, omnipotence means little... The power that counts is the power to influence the exercise of power by others.»

Communication underlies and shapes the recognition and exercise of power within a society.

But the stories also reveal how particularly Christian service to the world is an exercise of power at a basic political level — which should impress a radical democrat like Stout.

It is not a natural thing for people to draw a sharp separation between religion and politics as distinct realms, to demand responsible participation in both and simultaneously to say that the object of one (God) is the criterion for the object of the other (the exercise of power).

While decisive steps have been taken at several points in your history to place limits on the exercise of power, the nation's political institutions have been able to evolve with a remarkable degree of stability.

(Using the lowercase «c» with reference to «christianity» is a spiritual discipline for me as a member of a religious tradition so arrogant and abusive in its exercise of power over women, lesbians and gays, indigenous people, Jews, Muslims and members of nonchristian religions and cultures.)

These important observations that remind us that both interpretation and proclamation of the biblical texts are exercises of power in themselves that should not go unexamined.

The court has been whittling back on both free - exercise and establishment - clause claims in favor of wider amplitude for the exercise of the powers of government.

Jesus had power and he gave it away, which may finally be the most powerful and faithful exercise of power.

Perhaps emboldened by that query, another chimed in, «When people label all exercise of power as inherently bad or suspect, power issues or needs don't just go away.

But here it is necessary to point out that when we speak of the reigning Christ we do not mean the monarchical concept of an arbitrary exercise of power.

One is the exercise of power to dominate, control, and shape men and things to conform to a predetermined way of life.

Unless qualified by compensating qualities, the exercise of power tends to alienate the possessor of power.

The exercise of power must operate with an awareness of these elements.

But what we have established so far is that the exercise of power in history, the expression of the interests, vitalities, and wills which belong to us as human beings, and even the participation in the inevitable conflict of these interests and vitalities, are not in contradiction to the real human good which is the earthly content of our life in the love of God.

The task that remains is to flesh out an understanding of how the love that is God empowers every becoming occasion to maximize its own exercise of power.

«We seek an understanding that does not divide power and compassionate love in a dualistic framework that identifies love with a resignation of power and the exercise of power with a denial of love.

The violence employed against the Minjung by the oppressive powers is not only physical but also economic, social, political and cultural; it is psychological and communal, corporate and spiritual, as the exercise of power becomes ever more sophisticated.

To highlight this usage is not deny some of uses of power are oppressive, but rather to suggest that exercise of power, especially state power, needs to be evaluated by some criterion other than whether the person who is on the receiving end of a powerful action has less power than the persons acting against them.

By a prodigious exercise of power, unknown to the bourgeois world, he tries to give form to some corner of the universe.

The divine omnipotence does not know the destructive facets of the human exercising of power, but in this world becomes «defenseless» and vulnerable.

Yet it is not this exercise of power by individuals that is the most serious aspect of current society.

They are perfected in and by the exercise of this power of comprehension.

Authority always means the exercise of power in accord with some source of legitimacy.

Ambivalence is a process of deconstruction of reality and truth which leads to the arbitrary exercise of power, domination and intolerance.

The first divine words to human beings (Gen. 1:28, exercise «dominion,» radah), he has written, «constitute a sharing of the exercise of power (dominion).

And what is interesting here, I think, is that while the standard view of omnipotence does not appear to entail that beings other than God are devoid of power, it does entail that the exercise of power on the part of any finite being is importantly conditioned, i.e., it is contingent upon God's willingness to refrain from exercising some power of his own.

At the same time, he resists the identification of freedom with that concept of action as the imposition of will, the exercise of power or control, which as we have seen he regards as an essential aspect of the contemporary scientific - technical approach.

The very exercise of power tends toward discovery.

Power may corrupt, but the exercise of power is not in itself a corruption.)

Therefore much new evils are to be found among tribal peoples which were not there in the traditional society - evils created by lawless individualism, irresponsible exercise of power and money.

But a republic will have republican customs — public participation in the exercise of power, the political equality of the citizens, a wide distribution of small and medium property with few very rich or very poor — customs that will lead to a public spiritedness, a willingness of the citizen to sacrifice his own interests for the common good, that is, to a citizen motivated by republican virtue.

Thus conflict generally involves the exercise of power in an attempt to gain control of scarce resources or to influence behavior.

It is the difference between pursuing knowledge as power only and pursuing knowledge as power at the service of values and responsible to social and ecological justice and to the people whose welfare is affected by the exercise of that power.

If proception in its human form involves the exercise of powers of assimilation and manipulation of natural complexes, could not a divine form of proception involve much greater powers of assimilation and manipulation?

In view of all that inheres in the first four «words» and in the light of what is there already affirmed both explicitly and by inference; in consideration of ancient Eastern modes of thought and the characteristic psychological identification one always made of his own life with the life of immediate and also more distant progenitors; in recognition of the meaning of Covenant, together with Israel's faith in God's creation and his continuing exercise of the powers and prerogatives of Creator and Sustainer - in acknowledgment of all this it is apparent that the intention of the fifth commandment is to establish and perpetuate not merely the parental but by and through the parental the divine claim upon every life in Israel.

Under the Bush administration the United States treated the former Soviet sphere as a geopolitical Monopoly board on which to acquire real estate, without, however, distinguishing between vital American interests and the opportunistic exercise of power.

The victimization of the Minjung under oppressive powers has intensified as the exercise of power becomes more sophisticated.

Starting with conventional understandings of the exercise of power leads to a dead end.

It is by the exercise of power.

The Court has repeatedly said that its function is not to judge the wisdom or the policy of laws, but only to judge whether or not they are exercises of powers granted to the federal government by the Constitution or denied by it to the states.

(a) the Murray ‑ Darling Basin Ministerial Council has agreed to the Basin Plan applying to the performance of the function or the exercise of the power; or

But this generated a substantial change; a precedent for the victory of the law of the community over the arbitrary exercise of power.

We have to recognise it as a very deliberate exercise of power and control.