Sentences with phrase «of the absolute powers»

But under the golden halo of absolute power, they became an autocratic «bad emperor» without any formal constitutional means of ridding the system of its excesses.

At the same time, given what we know about the tendencies of absolute power to become exploitative and dominating, we are not sure that we want a single world government.

Augustine leaves no basis for conceiving any qualification of the absolute power of God over the creature.

Scripture was used to support the idea of a God of absolute power, thereby obscuring the biblical conception of a God of infinite love whose power was manifest in his suffering and humiliation in Jesus Christ.

It was, then, not merely from personal ambition, which doubtless functioned, nor because of an exaggerated self - importance induced through unaccustomed flattery, that these kings moved steadily in the direction of arrogation of absolute powers.

The church simply appropriated secular expressions of power from the Roman world and gave them a stamp of divine approval, a sacralization.51 This culminated in the eleventh century with Pope Gregory VII (Dictatus Papae, 1075), who instituted the ideology of the absolute power of the papacy.

It includes an acute depiction of a man seduced by stereotypical masculinity, whose inhuman beloved gives him «the sensation of his absolute power to satisfy her.»

But such is the truth - claim of the absolute powers.

He's created a network of absolute power.

Gradual withdrawal of absolute power is the only way to ensure that someone will be able to accept relinquishing it.

@SJuan76 - With the problem being that the Dictator never feels the time is right to let go of the absolute power.

One of the delights of Chris Evans's supersquare Steve Rogers is how outspoken and political the actor has made the character, and this stand - alone sequel showcases him grappling with the consequences of absolute power.

In sum, The End of America is a worthwhile film to the extent that it can serve a permanent watchdog function as a reminder of the possible erosion of Constitutional rights and the citizenry's need to remain vigilant about the tendency of power to corrupt, and of absolute power to corrupt absolutely.

With his newfound powers of persuasion, the little boy began working to raise Alpoko from the depths of obscurity and poverty into the dizzying heights of absolute power and prosperity.

A few satellite shows, including «Another Part of the New World,» a group exhibition mostly of Spanish and Latin American artists at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, explicitly addressed the dangers of absolute power and the loss of cultural memory.

Not exact matches

He points out that British law is rooted in the protection of individual rights from the power of the state, while most law in continental Europe is derived from the Roman tradition of absolute state power.

«It's very important as a professional and as a brand to exude that sense of absolute control and power until it's really organic and integral,» she says.

And in a country of more than 150 million people, even a proportionally small middle class like Bangladesh's can be quite large in terms of absolute numbers and buying power.

We give absolute power to control the money supply (and hence manipulate the price of nearly everything) to unelected bureaucrats who have a track record of failure.

Pharma is unique among industries because the medical patient has an absolute lack of power regarding pricing.

Fourth, the NDP should declare that the best way to strengthen the absolute power of the Government of Quebec to serve its citizenry is to rebuild and increase the relative central power of the Government of Canada to enforce national standards.

A constitutionally - valid exercise of the feds» criminal law power requires (1) a prohibition (partial or absolute), (2) backed by a penalty, (3) for a valid criminal purpose.

History is not so full of examples of this happening for very long, but that does not change the fact that having one person in absolute power can get things done.

Chad You personify the seductive power of absolute belief, the inscrutable va - garies of biblical interpretation, and how a mind can shape reality to fit the narrative.

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None if those deaths were done in the name of atheism; but done to gain absolute power.

Since they have absolute control over the supply of tickets and since they deal only with their own selected list of agencies, it would seem to be within their power to correct the abuses now prevalent.

«Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely» is not a biblical phrase, but it arises from a biblical understanding of human sinfulPower corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely» is not a biblical phrase, but it arises from a biblical understanding of human sinfulpower corrupts absolutely» is not a biblical phrase, but it arises from a biblical understanding of human sinfulness.

When the time is ripe, God will act with absolute power, and set up a kingdom of righteousness which will endure for ever.

Despite these restrictions, both sides continued to be driven to seek absolute power and to impose their power on the other, making the principle of separation also the source of endless strife.

The notion of women's autonomy» including absolute control over our own bodies» leaves us with an unrealistic sense of human power and an exaggerated sense of independence from the consequences of our attitudes and actions.

No longer will predestination be... the arbitrary decision of an absolute sovereign power.

And anyone who has this insight, and who loves, will feel within himself a fever of active dependence and of arduous purity seizing upon him and driving him on to an absolute integrity and the complete utilization of all his powers.

Drawing upon The Courage To Be, Scott is aware of three characteristics of «absolute faith»: (1) To live in the power of being that enables a person to withstand the onslaughts of guilt, death, and meaninglessness; (2) To experience the dependence of all manifestations of nonbeing upon being, such as the dependence of meaninglessness upon meaning, thereby testifying to the ultimacy of being - itself; and (3) To accept being accepted in spite of one's separation from the power of being (AC 95f).

To treat any item in the universe, including status quo power arrangements and «understandings» of God, as in some way «absolute» or inherently «sacred» is idolatry.

Because of this, as Mormon philosopher David Paulsen observes, «God does not have absolute power.»

If the Christian acts as mediator or advocate, as representative of the poor, it is not to get little concessions or to conciliate points of view or to harmonize opposing interests; no, it is to plead the cause of absolute misery before absolute power (power is always absolute!)

They did this because Communism as a religion enabled them the same absolute power that kings used to claim as a result of religion.

Nearly half a century on, in his wittily entitled Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes (1984), Hartshorne reviewed two meanings of «all - powerful»: the traditional, of course — the (benevolent) tyrant ideal of absolute, all determining, irresistible power18 — and what he previously had identified as the greatest possible power in a universe of multiple centers of power: «The only livable doctrine of divine power is that it influences all that happens but determines nothing in its concrete particularity.»

We live in an age whose chief moral value has been determined, by overwhelming consensus, to be the absolute liberty of personal volition, the power of each of us to choose what he or she believes, wants, needs, or must possess; our culturally most persuasive models of human freedom are unambiguously voluntarist and, in a rather debased and degraded way, Promethean; the will, we believe, is sovereign because unpremised, free because spontaneous, and this is the highest good.

But I shall argue that love can not breathe in such a «block universe».33 For St. Augustine all things are caught in the predetermined web of God's absolute, non-temporal, impassible, unchanging power.

Hence in the practical risk of the unforeseen inner - worldly future man realizes his eschatological hope by looking away from himself to the absolute which is not in his power.

Purpose of post is to make hindu secular, ignorant self centered human to realize power of truth, nothing can over power truth, nor can deviate from truth in life, because truth absolute rules the world, their is none other but truth absolute LORD GOD of the world.

Bonhoeffer also believed that the concept of God as a «supreme Being, absolute in power and goodness,» was a «spurious conception of transcendence,» and that «God as a working hypothesis in morals, politics, and science... should be dropped, or as far as possible eliminated» (Letters and Papers from Prison, S.C.M. Press edition, Great Britain: Fontana Books, 1953, pp. 122, 164, 360).

Christianity, for its part, is not so much a new thing as a prolonged episode within the greater history of nihilism, notable chiefly for having brought part of this history's logic to its consummation by having invented the metaphysical God, the form of all forms, who grounds all of being in himself as absolute efficient cause, and who personifies that cause as total power and will.

I think it was Augustus who's first title was First Citizen — implying that he was simply another citizen of Rome; but in reality he had almost absolute power (politically); and he wielded it.

When you have a government trying to impose a specific form of government where they need absolute control they either use a specific religion (a.k.a. Islam in Iran) or try to stamp out religion in order in order to have supreme power (Stalin in the USSR).

If we reflect on a comparable concept, «separation of powers,» we might recall that it, too, is not found in the Constitution, that there never has been «absolute» separation between the three branches of government, and that the expansion and complexity of modern government has not rendered it impractical or obsolete.

Hartshorne attributes this consistent violation of the principle of dual transcendence to the fact that classical theism has placed too much faith in Greek philosophy, and to a Western prejudice according to which absolute independence along with the power to the cause of events is regarded as a superior attribute while relativity and the capacity to be an effect is mistakenly regarded as an inferior attribute.»

The self - identity of a particular is never absolute, and it is least so in the responsible and rational activity of self - integration, in which the individual power of the act is commanded by a power that is anything but particular.