Serena Pariser's new book Real Talk About Classroom Management departs from the traditional approach
of teaching obedience and instead shares how to empower students, build positive relationships, and create independent and curious learners.
Not exact matches
The institutional church is so often like Satan... longing to be worshipped and obeyed;
teaching that
obedience to one scripture is more important than balancing them all; luring us to abuse our power to make a difficult path chosen by God into a simple solution
of no new spiritual growth (Matt 4).
Mormonism
teaches that Jesus suffered for our sins in the Garden
of Gethsemane, providing personal salvation (which may mean exaltation to godhood) conditional upon our
obedience to the laws and ordinances
of the LDS gospel.
The only reason that the
teaching of a «devil» exists in my opinion is because it is a useful tool for religious leaders to use to frighten people into
obedience to their edicts.
It forces recognition
of the fact that Jesus»
teaching did not center around such ideas as the infinite worth
of personality, the cultivation
of the inner life, the development
of man toward an ideal; that Jesus spoke rather
of the coming Kingdom
of God, which was to be God's gift, not man's achievement,
of man's decision for or against the Kingdom, and
of the divine demand for
obedience.
That is a central Christian
teaching which many Christians find offensive since they have fallen into the Galatian heresy
of beginning in the Gospel, but returning to the Law: saved by Grace, but remain saved by our
obedience.
Contrary to the
teachings of many religious men, the love
of God does not mean the submission
of one's will in
obedience to God.
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.
The fidelity
of bishops and priests to the
teaching of the Church and to their solemn vows; the fidelity
of bishops in exercising oversight in ensuring
obedience to that
teaching and to those vows; and the fidelity
of the lay faithful in holding bishops and priests accountable.
Obedience deals with the doing
of what is known to be YAHWEH»S will, as
taught by the Word, the SetApart Spirit and our conscience.
Ok, I believe the ultimate good is, «
obedience» to the
teaching of the NT.
The
teaching regarding a hierarchy in male and female relationships is only one aspect
of a larger and necessary ordering
of all reality that extends into the Godhead itself © # Christ's
obedience and submission to the Father and the Holy Spirit's subordination to the Son).
To regard Jesus as revealing God because
of his ideal human
obedience does not, in Brunner's opinion, safeguard the distinctive
teaching of Christian faith.
Canons 752 and 753
of the 1983 Code
of Canon Law use the expression «religious
obedience of the intellect and will,» which has become the specific way
of describing adherence to non-infallible statements
of the hierarchical
teaching authority.
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 Christianity, the
obedience is to what God has
taught: love
of Him and love
of neighbor.
Even among those who have not been entirely scandalised the celibacy, the commitment to prayer, the
obedience to authority and the lack
of status and financial remuneration stand in stark contrast to everything they have been
taught to value.
The church possesses, or better is possessed by, the principle
of life «in Christ» — a life
of discipleship that is not simply
obedience to a set
of moral truths supposedly
taught by Jesus but a life in which «Christ dwells in our hearts by faith» and enables his people to act, insofar as they are able, in conformity with his pattern
of human existence.
His
teachings indicate that he wanted his followers to be obedient to GOD above all and that when no conflict between the two exists, the the former
obedience (Caesar or the LAW
of the land or government as it were) was in essence
obedience to God.
Nevertheless, what would we say
of a human parent who
taught a son
obedience through the mangling torture
of a cross?
We have stressed the direct and concrete nature
of the challenge to faith in the
teaching of Jesus; we turn now to explore further the response - as -
obedience aspect
of that
teaching in terms
of a group
of sayings which exhibit the radical and total character
of the challenge
of Jesus altogether.
But I want now to indicate three facts which I have encountered in my experience as a teacher, who, because he came to that function by way
of the parish ministry, has never been able to have an immediate and lively sense
of vocation save in relation to the church and its
teaching and preaching
obedience.
One is entitled to use words such as absolute or complete in connection with trust and
obedience in the
teaching of Jesus.
So it is more than likely that he will use our work to
teach us selfless love,
obedience and reliance on him, to
teach us to pray and to hear his voice, to help us grow in the fruit
of the Spirit, and to exercise the gifts
of the Spirit.
Thus a teacher is not and never can be a civil servant... Whatever authority he may possess to
teach and control children, and to claim their respect and
obedience, comes to him from God, through the parents and not through the State, except in so far as the State is acting on behalf
of the parents.
What if
obedience and service were built in to the
teaching aspect
of the church?
Jesus» ethics are set forth as the conditions
of entrance into the coming kingdom, but in reality there is only one condition — complete
obedience to the will
of God.23 Both the radical ethical
teachings of Jesus and his proclamation
of the kingdom find their unity in the crisis
of decision before God.
That's why I'm
teaching the online course on the Gospel... to carefully explain the freeness
of grace and the role
of good works and
obedience in light
of the gospel.
Our
obedience in mission should be patterned on the ministry and
teaching of Jesus.
By the eleventh century most
of the ulama were
teaching that
obedience was an absolute duty, even to an unjust ruler, since an unjust ruler was better than none at all.
«
Obedience to conscience leads to obedience to the Gospel,» Newman wrote, «which, instead of being something different altogether, is but the completion and perfection of that religion which natural conscience teache
Obedience to conscience leads to
obedience to the Gospel,» Newman wrote, «which, instead of being something different altogether, is but the completion and perfection of that religion which natural conscience teache
obedience to the Gospel,» Newman wrote, «which, instead
of being something different altogether, is but the completion and perfection
of that religion which natural conscience
teaches.»
The task
of teaching us the law and helping us to apply it is the function
of the state and the Church, and one can expect his reward or punishment in this life or in eternity, according to his
obedience to civil and divine law respectively.
Whatever the view
of the
teaching silencing women in the church, I know that I am more edified by the Sister that applies this
teaching to her life, choosing instead, sacrifice and
obedience.
My personal approach is that if I am unsure
of the applicability
of a
teaching that affects me, i'd rather practice
obedience to the Word, rather than become a stumbling block for a Christian or a non-believer.
Can the church muster the
obedience and courage to embody its
teaching that all human life is sacred even in the midst
of the racing panic and plague time?
I think Whitehead also knew this, suggesting a radical reversal
of the Western philosophical and religious tradition's insistence that virtue, there meant as
obedience to law, can be externally
taught.
They have stressed
obedience to the Lord's command «Go, and
teach all nations» but have been shy
of stating the conviction
of Scripture and Tradition, up to and including Vatican II, that unless they hear the Gospel and enter the Church, many will remain slaves
of the devil, the flesh and the world, and may never attain the eternal life Christ won for them upon the Cross.
1 Peter 3:21 shows conscience is guided by Gods
teaching; the doctrine
of baptism guides the inner persons conscience into outward
obedience to the
teaching of Baptism.
Promoting the false «trinity «doctrine fantasy, Luke 11:13, Matthew 16:16 & 17, and promoting reverence toward statues, crosses, pictures and dead «saints» instead
of teaching that true worship means absolute
obedience to the word
of God.
It is easy to see how satanically attractive such
teaching could be; and it is easy to see how those who propagated it would take to themselves a conscious superiority, contemptuous
of those who still allowed themselves to be shackled and constricted by
obedience to the moral law or to any other kind
of law.
When the pastors rightly handle this spiritual sword, namely the Word
of God,... all men must with complete
obedience be subject to them, i.e. to the Word
of God and
of Christ which they
teach and according to which they pass judgments.
It is a time
of setting boundaries,
teaching obedience and establishing toddler routines.
Obedience should be a companion
of gentle, loving
teaching.
A «good» child should be
taught why to obey, when to obey and that if challenge to
obedience becomes necessary (according to the truth
of God, not the whims
of a child) there will be support.
Dealing with disobedient kids is a very common problem which most
of the parents face these days and it becomes a very tough task to
teach discipline and
obedience to such kids.
• Perhaps kids living in dangerous, disadvantaged neighborhoods are less likely to run afoul
of authority figures — in and out
of school — when they are
taught unquestioning
obedience.
That keeping their child close and loving them to the fullest extent possible would
teach the child right from wrong, leading them to a life
of obedience.
He says that his 30 years
of teaching left him with the realization that «Institutionalized schooling... is about
obedience in exchange for favors and advantages.»
Whereas children in religious households learn to act out
of obedience to a watchful higher power, children raised in secular homes could be
taught to follow moral rules just because it's «the right thing to do,» he says.