Sentences with phrase «nature of authority»

What is a scandal — verbal inspiration, for instance — to one may be the very nature of authority to another.

If we hold such a view of the personal nature of authority, we are free to recognize the development of many forms of the ministerial office as an inevitable and valid aspect of the history of the church.

And because of the multi-state nature of the authority, it also means that drivers from other states who possess an E-ZPass will be the beneficiaries of the three - trip discount.

And thanks to the very nature of authorities like the M.T.A. (or the Port Authority or the Thruway Authority), governors can avoid taking responsibility for their shortcomings.

Indeed such laws undermine the very nature of authority and result in shameful abuse.»

To a far lesser degree does it concern the nature of authority itself and its relation to power and liberty.

Those who are leading us in this reflection point out that what is at stake is not only the nature of the authority of the New Testament but also our whole understanding of what it means to be Christians.

Jesus answers with a discussion of the nature of authority.

For decades the World Council of Churches, especially the Faith and Order Commission, has been studying the nature of authority in the Christian faith.

He is reflecting on the nature of authority — where does it come from, who do we trust, on what do we base our beliefs?

The ecclesiastical trial of Father William Wendt in Washington, D.C., over the issue of women's orders symbolized that once the nature of authority is challenged, even in church governance, the very basis of traditional Christian thought and practice crumbles.

Concentrating on current problem, Popieluszko always took note of the largest issues involved such as the nature of authority and government, justice and the fundamental human right to freedom and believed that the root cause of the problems of Poland was the exclusion of God from its socio - political life and in the governing process.

Not surprisingly, it's also deeply cynical about the nature of authority and human institutions, and particularly about the police department.

(a) Nature of the authority to create military commissions for the trial of enemy combatants for offenses against the law of war, and principles governing the exercise of jurisdiction by such commissions, considered.

Thus there are two legislative tiers by which the extinguishment of native title takes place: first at the level of Commonwealth legislation and the nature of the authority that this legislation gives to State and Territory governments; and second at the level of State and Territory legislation and the enactment of legislation that extinguishes native title.