Sentences with phrase «other ultimate authority»
There is a mechanism already in place in the US constitution which has for aim to temper the supposed «excess» or «irrational enthusiasm» of the people, but without resorting to any other ultimate authority than the authority of the people itself.
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In other words, «Rather than consider the wisdom and authority of God, I'll be my own ultimate authority.»
Case in point, it is not logical to suggest there is «good» vs «bad» if there is no ultimate moral authority, no higher power that created everything, including free will and the ability to choose whether to heed that drive to do what is «good» vs doing what you want to do at the expense of «good» and of other people.
The Roman Empire had tried every other way to stop the spread of this new religion which threatened the «deity» of their Caesar and their Caesar's claim to ultimate authority.
There's seems to be more in some ways on the risks of weilding authority, though, too — placing ultimate responsibility on those who manipulate others.
If all we can say of Jesus and of God is that Jesus is God — all the God of God there is — then we have effectively ruled out all other attempts of the human spirit to glimpse the mystery of the ultimate; and this is all the more conspicuously the case when our understanding of «Jesus,» in the first place, is really a dogmatic reduction of his person, his «thou - ness,» to the «it - ness» of christological propositions that, most of them, enshrine little more than our own religious bid for authority.
It lies to children and other innocent people, it uses its supposed «ultimate authority» to attempt to rule over others.
Not understanding the necessary interworking of traditional, Biblical, and contemporary sources (even in a theology that seeks Biblical authority as its ultimate norm), certain evangelicals have fallen prey to a new form of «traditionalism»; others have retreated to a «Biblicism»; still others have found themselves in theological bondage to contemporary standards.
Our Lord Jesus claimed to mediate the ultimate authority of His Father, that authority which is the source of all other.
On the other hand, if the ultimate criterion in scholarly disputation is reason, then publicly claiming prior authority for revelation is a breach of ethics and is rightly reprehended by secular scholars.
The atheist by saying condecending crap like «atheists don't claim to have ultimate moral authority over other people from a magical man in the sky, while Christians do.»
It is the second grand slam of the year and having lost the pace with other major tennis grand slams, French Open authorities has taken a few steps to bring the focus back on ultimate clay court challenge.
Decision - making authority is commonly dispersed in Latin nations, or where ultimate authority is not as clear as in other nations.
Yet with no white - coated experimenter sitting in our living rooms, who is the ultimate authority figure granting us permission to delight in the pain of others?
Unlike other guilds, the WGA excludes screenplays not produced under its jurisdiction or that of another guild as awards candidates, because it has the ultimate authority over determining which writers receive screenplay credit — if the script was produced under WGA jurisdiction.
Does the possibility accorded to Penn Central, under the landmark preservation regulation, of realizing some value at some time by transferring the Terminal development rights to other buildings, under a procedure that is conceded to be defective, severely limited, procedurally complex and speculative, and that requires ultimate discretionary approval by governmental authorities, meet the constitutional requirements of just compensation as applied to landmarks?