Sentences with phrase «hierarchical authority in»

The second and closely connected problem has to do with hierarchical authority in the church's life.

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Communism westernized the Russian political imagination in a perverse way, to be sure, but its triumph put a complete end to older, more traditional ways of understanding society as a hierarchical system underwritten by a sacred authority.

Notions of «power over» dynamics, hierarchical thinking, authoritarianism, success meaning «winning» over someone else who is a «loser», more money and more power and more authority is more successful... everything that causes so much trouble in a capitalist, patriarchal mindset.

This failure, he suggests, then paved the way for a modern, hierarchical reconfiguration of ecclesial authority, in which Church authorities took a more decisive role in the determination of doctrine.

Another test for the church is how far it can build an accepting fellowship where people can articulate their own experience of God in Christ This again raises questions about the future organization of the institutional church and whether it can or should maintain its present hierarchical structure where authority seems to come down from on high.

On the other side, Gladys Hunt, in her discussion of Ephesians 5 which is meant to support a hierarchical understanding of family authority, conveniently ignores Paul's advice to the husband.

of the will and intellect» to designate obedience toward the hierarchical teaching authority creates problems, its exclusive application in Lumen gentium 25 to non-infallible teaching authority is still not clear.

One indication of this is the emphasis in recent Church documents on obedience to the hierarchical teaching authority and on the relationship between hierarchical superiority and subordination.

In his view (i) the concept of autonomous hierarchy involves collections of elements which are responsible for producing their own rules as contrasted with collections which are designed by an external authority to have hierarchical behavior.

They offer a powerful diagnosis of the «tyrannies» and «addictions» many have experienced in Christian communities where a vengeful and capricious God Is preached, and where that preaching is reinforced by powerful personalities or conceptions of biblical, theological or hierarchical authority.

When the church is consumed and possessed by mortgages, capital campaigns, membership numbers, qualifications for membership or deacon or elder, the variety and format of financial reports, redecorating, ordination policies, the proper delineation of committee responsibilities, the aggregation and strengthening and protection of church hierarchical authority, the preference for political associations and prominence instead of being a voice and influence for justice and compassion, seasonal vestment colors, the abandonment and refusal to acknowledge congregations who dare to be excited by their proclaiming and provoking and living and sharing the Good News, the continual choosing and preoccupation with better organization over better outreach, or what styles of worship are to be offered — then it is time for an earth - shaking, stone - rolling, curtain ripping, hurricane - strength, fiery and noisy transformational revolution that will resurrect the Good News in the body and spirit of communities and individuals.

As I said previously, I will speak from a generic viewpoint, we must keep in mind that the «legislative framework» for election is a composite of four key authorities, namely and in order of hierarchical authority: The Constitution, the Electoral Act, judgments of courts of records particularly the Supreme Court; and the derivative guidelines for election approved by the election management body and l'm talking of INEC.

Transforming Authority and Influence The traditional hierarchical structure of schools is a holdover from the industrial age, when teachers were treated like interchangeable parts in a machine.

In the English case of Multi-Academy Trusts and in the Dutch case of networked regional school authorities organized by the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science, inspections have remained resolutely focused upon the single school with a hierarchical inspectorate system fully intacIn the English case of Multi-Academy Trusts and in the Dutch case of networked regional school authorities organized by the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science, inspections have remained resolutely focused upon the single school with a hierarchical inspectorate system fully intacin the Dutch case of networked regional school authorities organized by the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science, inspections have remained resolutely focused upon the single school with a hierarchical inspectorate system fully intact.

Fitzpatrick brings play and nuance to the motifs of authority and prestige creating works (and worlds) that question positional and hierarchical constructs by remaking and resurfacing narrative objects, his work places the viewer in an ever - shifting position between subordination and empowerment.

«The Holy Assembly of Bishops, as the highest hierarchical body, is legislative authority in the matters of faith, officiation, church order (discipline) and internal organization of the Church, as well as the highest church juridical authority within its jurisdiction (Article 69 sec. 28).»

[Footnote 1] We granted certiorari to determine whether the actions of the Illinois Supreme Court constituted improper judicial interference with decisions of the highest authorities of a hierarchical church in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

We believe a hierarchical depiction of the network helps uncover latent distribution of authority present in the law professor network.

While X. 509 also relies on encryption, like the bitcoin protocol, it differs from bitcoin in that it works on a centralised «hierarchical» model, where certifying authorities vouch for a document's authenticity.

(116) The foundation of international law in the nation state whose social organisations are characterised by exclusive territory and centralised and hierarchical authority, meant that Indigenous people, organised through tribal or kinship ties, decentralised political structures and overlapping territorial spheres, would never benefit from the international law of nations.

[jounal] Williamson, D. S. / 1981 / Personal authority via termination of the intergenerational hierarchical boundary: A new stage in the family life cycle / Journal of Marital and family Therapy 7: 441 ~ 452