Sentences with phrase «of civil power»

Let cardinals, archbishops, bishops, the heads of the monastic, mendicant and military orders be called, let factors of theology and law from the university and the representatives of the Civil power be summoned, and let such a council and the schism, condemn heretics and reform the Church.

In October of that year Conrad Grebel and others (who «became» the Anabaptist movement) challenged Zwingli's use of civil power to enforce religious conformity.

When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, «tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.

In regards to the use of force Ben Franklin said, «When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, â $ ˜tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.

That is to say, while all liberals favored curtailment of the Church's worldly power and proclaimed the supremacy of civil power, they were not necessarily «antireligious.

so that its Professors are oblig'd to call for the help of the Civil Power, it is a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one» (IV: 634) But we also hear of Luther Martin, Maryland's first lawyer and a leading antifederalist.

Not exact matches

While Army private pay in the Spanish - American War was still $ 13 like it had been in the Civil War, a period of deflation had strengthened the purchasing power of that monthly salary.

For anyone who is feeling uncertain about the upcoming transfer of power, writer and illustrator Christopher Noxon has turned his recent tour of the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis into a motivational text that links lessons learned in the 1950s and «60s with today's strange times.

He makes a smart case for the paradoxically fierce power of nonviolent resistance, like that of the civil rights movement.

As the US was rising to its power and glory during the 19 th Century, we had a horrible civil war, 15 depressions [Yes, with a D.], few human rights, little rule of law, periodic massacres in the streets, etc., etc. yet we still became the most successful country in the 20 th Century.

WASHINGTON / BEIRUT, April 14 (Reuters)- Western powers said on Saturday their missile attacks struck at the heart of Syria's chemical weapons program, but the restrained assault appeared unlikely to shift the course of the 7 - year - old civil war.

The fight for Afrin, a once stable pocket of northwest Syria, has opened a new front in Syria's multi-sided civil war and highlighted the ever greater role of foreign powers in the seven - year - old conflict.

The fight for Afrin, a once - stable pocket of northwest Syria, has opened a new front in Syria's multi-sided civil war and highlighted the ever - greater role of foreign powers such as Turkey in the seven - year - old conflict.

Baher Abdulhai, director of the Intelligent Transportation Systems Centre in the University of Toronto's civil engineering department, is a believer in the healing powers of traffic technology.

The job of civil servants is to speak truth to power, and yes occasionally suffer the consequences.

The new category of crime vaguely defined (and whimsically prosecuted) as the violation of civil rights removed the bar against double jeopardy; and the unchecked power of administrative commissions and civil suits reversed the presumption of innocence.

This profound alienation of the ghetto poor from mainstream American life has continued to grow worse in the years since the triumphs of the civil rights movement, even as the success of that movement has provided the basis for an impressive expansion of economic and political power for the black middle class.

Within ten years, I expect — maybe even within five — one New England state or another will strip the power to issue civil - marriage licenses from clergy of churches that do not perform same - sex marriages.

Perhaps it is now time to recognize that the third world - changing scientific achievement of the last century is not the unmitigated good that much of Western culture claims it is — and that treating the sexual revolution as a unambiguous, indeed undeniable, boon to humanity can lead to a lot of personal unhappiness, homicidal ghouls like Kermit Gosnell, and the deployment of coercive state power in ways that threaten civil society and democracy.

using your argument we would had civil rights in this country just because goverments make certain practices illegal does tat mean that what the goverrmet s doing is moral and just, The fact s the goverment attempted to use Christaniaity to bolster it claim to power through this we have the start of the Roman Catholic Church one of the most insidious evil organzations on this planet which as doe more to oppose ad kill true follewers of Christ then ay group o this planet.

Failing that, he should simply refuse the government's delegation of legal power, referring the couple to the courthouse after the wedding for the state to confect in its bureaucratic way the amorphous and ill - defined civil union that our regime continues to call «marriage.»

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

China's urban churches will be a major force in its democratization, for a free society requires a civil society capable of standing up to tyranny and the abuse of power.

They also remembered the spiritual power of the [civil rights] meetings,» especially the singing, with a passion and feeling rooted in the black church.

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By civil righteousness, Luther meant that people, by the powers of reason with which they are endowed, can refrain from murdering one another, or stealing, or lying.

However, this theory appeared to overlook the actual power of discipline which was carried on by the civil magistrates in the earlier Congregational system.

In the civil war and struggle for power in the time of Uthman, the third Caliph, irreligious elements among the Muslim people did not refrain from fabricating traditions concerning the merits of some political figures.

The Jewish scholar Joseph Klausner, for example, holds that the Pharisees and Sadducees were justified in their attacks on Jesus because he imperiled Jewish culture at its foundations, and that by ignoring everything that belongs to wholesome social life he undercut the work of centuries.2 Others within the Christian tradition have felt considerable uneasiness lest the words of Jesus about nonresistance imperil the civil power of the State, or his words about having no anxiety for food or drink or other material possessions curtail an economic motivation essential to society.

For instance, inasmuch as the founders» notion of free self - government rests on an essentially Lockean conception of freedom as power outside and prior to truth (however much God or truth imposes an extrinsic obligation to obey, and however reasonable it is to do so in view of future rewards and punishments), then American liberty will eventually erode the moral and cultural foundations of civil society inherited from Protestant Christianity.

Christ died because he affronted the civil power and the Rabbis of the time claiming he was the Messiah.

In redefining marriage and the family, the state not only embarks on an unprecedented expansion of its powers into realms heretofore considered prior to or outside its reach, and not only does it usurp functions and prerogatives once performed by intermediary associations within civil society, it also exercises these powers by tacitly redefining what the human being is and committing the nation to a decidedly post-Christian (and ultimately post-human) anthropology and philosophy of nature.

The Roman Catechism, issued in 1566, three years after the end of the Council of Trent, taught that the power of life and death had been entrusted by God to civil authorities and that the use of this power, far from involving the crime of murder, is an act of paramount obedience to the fifth commandment.

Ross Douthat and Yuval Levin argue that Obama levels the «little platoons» of civil society in favor of expanding the power of the state.

Against the law student's disaffection, the Civil War experience shows that careful legal interpretation can be an engine of history in its own right — a real motive and limit, not just an instrument of judges» will to power.

Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civil New York: Macmillan, 1962.

It implies the rejection of civil rights for blacks, votes for women, the abolition of slavery, the abolition of property requirements for voting; it implies the rejection of the whole historical march against arbitrary difference and power.

One generally assumes that constitutional bills of rights are needed primarily to limit the power of governments and to protect the legal space for those ordinary communal activities often grouped under the label of «civil society.»

As Phelps» daughter reminded me, there is a venerable American history of religious protests against the coercive power of the federal government, running from the anti-slavery and female suffrage advocacy of nineteenth - century evangelicals to the civil rights agitation of rabbis and members of the black church.

He viewed it as opening doors that will continue to open wide «for the Gospel by the spread of civil and religious liberty and by the diminution of Papal power».

Perhaps the most effective mobilization of church power for social change in recent decades has been on the part of black churches in the south in support of the civil rights movement.

He is God incarnate, to whom all authority is given (Mt. 28:18), and from whom the power of the sword is delegated to the civil magistrate as God's deacon for the reward of good and the terror of evil (Rom.

In 1878 Emerson stated the cultural assumption well when he said, «Opportunity of civil rights, of education, of personal power, and not less of wealth; doors wide open invitation to every nation, to every race and skin, hospitality of fair field and equal laws to all.

Spirituality was thought of as a form of holiness derived from the acceptance of one's station in life and living in obedience to the civil and ecclesiastical powers.

Neither civil power nor learning in itself form the basis of ministerial authority however much they may contribute at certain times to the prestige of the ministry.

And when we speak the truth, the whole civil community, even with its enormous power, has a possibility of peace.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and subsequent legislation, executive policy, and judicial expansion mobilized the power of the state to effectively crush racist practices, especially in the South.

Since then much has changed, as a result of the publication of T. Dunbar Moodie's The Rise of Afrikanerdom: Power, Apartheid and the Afrikaner Civil Religion (University of California Press, 1975) The odium once bestowed on Afrikaners has been shifted to charismatics.

To give you an example of just how narrow minded they are when in power, Stalin was so obsessed with wiping out rival factions of communists and socialists and anarchists in the Spanish Civil War that he lost the war!

Even the compelling power of legal statutes is only as effective as is the action of those individuals whose task it is to judicially enforce those civil laws, or as the laws themselves are commonly upheld by the citizenry.