Sentences with word «nonresistance»

Overcoming Evil God's Way: The Biblical and Historical Case for Nonresistance by Stephen Russell

That same phrase, «the doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind,» is found in both the Maryland and Tennessee Constitutions.

John Wesley, their great English leader, wrote a series of pamphlets in which he pleaded for nonresistance on the part of the Methodists and condemned the Revolution.

The Garrisonians based their view on a radical concept of nonresistance as conversion to perfection or holiness.

The way of the cross is the way of nonviolence, the way of suffering love, even nonresistance, whereas the way of the world is governed by the lusts of the flesh and the use of the sword.

Moses taught retaliation and retribution - «An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life — but Jesus teaches his disciples to practice nonresistance by enduring wrongs that others inflict on them rather than defending themselves against evildoers.

The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.

But in the call to love one's neighbor and even one's enemy, to pray for one's persecutor and to accept injury with nonresistance, to give freely and beyond necessity to those in need, the emphasis lies on uncalculating love and not on the correction of unjust systems or the punishment of evildoers.

It is the positive, active aspect of the attitude that finds negative expression in nonresistance.

Whilst many of the Reformation churches took over this teaching, the radical churches, such as the Mennonites, followers of Menno Simons (1496 - 1561), who in 1536 left the Catholic priesthood and joined the Anabaptists, preached nonresistance to evil.

Thus the Garrisonians both affirmed the connection between nonresistance and women's equality, and repudiated any special gender differences between men and women.

The problem with this objection is that it equates pacifism with passive nonresistance.

The hands bound signify nonresistance, and the grounding in the posture through the legs emanating power in where you are and where you have come from.

The Golden Rule, which Matthew gives here, is placed by Luke with the sayings about nonresistance and love for enemies (Mt 7:12; Lk 6:31).

Among Protestants, too, there are, for instance, the Mennonites, followers of the sixteenth - century Menno Simons, who are pledged to nonresistance as an article of faith.

His nonresistance is a theological necessity: He has to die for the sin of the world.

Pacifists embrace not nonviolent resistance but nonresistance.

How does this action fit in with Jesus» words about nonresistance to evil in Matthew 5:39 and love of enemies in Matthew 5:43 - 44?

Jesus not only followed a course of nonviolence and nonresistance himself; he commanded his disciples to do likewise: «Do not resist an evildoer» (Matt.

In sum, Jesus» nonresistance was theologically motivated, to fulfill prophecy, to make atonement; it was not ethically motivated, to do the right thing.

Nonresistance.

It is also useful to put the call to nonresistance to evil in historical context.

Like the summons to the fishermen to leave their normal occupation, the call to nonresistance is a summons to behave in a way that is not normal for human beings.

It is not even a general rule about nonresistance to all evil.