Sentences with phrase «political authority»

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office.

The method: hold passengers hostage in full view of TV cameras and negotiate with political authorities while the world watches.

Economic union, however, must be overseen by political authorities.

The question I have is about whether that desire for political authority exists before or after climate science.

It also calls for a new global political authority to reduce pollution and help poor countries and regions develop.

The virtually total overlap between political authority and the economic rule is now official.

On the other side, religious authorities in the moment of conflict with the state may claim political authority themselves.

If we accept the globalization of the economy, then we must work for globalization of political authority as well.

It does not matter how much political authority the religious authority has.

For example, they continue to inform much of the attitude toward political authority.

The very first step will be a swift move to regain political authority and there will be two important parts to this.

But the larger story is the tendency of power to corrupt in a land where violence is the only controlling political authority.

The good news here is that these two brave women stand in a long tradition of women who have challenged male religious and political authority in the name of freedom.

Why ought human beings to submit to any kind of political authority?

It delimits the putative subject's political and civil rights, and confers to the psychologist political authority over that subject.

The statement added, «In Dakar, the Nigerian leader will use the occasion of his participation in the Forum to continue his active engagement with political authorities on the need for enhanced security cooperation in the region.

Benedict XVI called for the development of «a true world political authority.»

At least one pacifist has even denied the need to give an account of political authority at all.

Martin Luther King Jr. was martyred because he challenged political authority, Gandhi violated it.

Are you actually criticizing the skeptic side of attempting to «exercise political authority in science?»

A secular framework largely based on the liberal humanist traditions of the West was adopted by the elite as a common, centralized political authority.

(Posse Comitatus contended that no legitimate political authority exists above the county level.)

Obviously this was possible only because political authorities had exercised considerable power throughout the Christianist period.

Even my strict Catholic upbringing allowed for dissent within the church, but it seems like dissent with the secular political authority is anathema.

Thus the myth of Lord Monckton, attacker of science, destroyer of progressive climate policies... Because that, fundamentally is the only way the failure to turn climate alarm into political authority can be explained.

The council acts as the advisory body to Iran's highest political authorities.

Francis also called for a new global political authority tasked with «tackling... the reduction of pollution and the development of poor countries and regions».

So, while for Locke political authority does come from God alone, he insists that the Scriptures are not clear — intentionally so — about where that authority properly comes to reside.

liberalism, socialism, and fascism in modern Italy have each shown tendencies toward an archaic regression in which political authority claims its own sacrality.

But the role of legitimating the office, transferring power, and endowing individuals with political authority remains the same.

Encyclical Logic Reading Douglas Farrow's interpretation of Benedict XVI's latest encyclical, Caritas in Veritate («Charity & Unity,» October 2009), either he or the pope seems to be prompting Christians to aim their efforts toward the foolhardy task of encouraging the world to embrace an all - encompassing political authority so that the ends of God may come to fruition in the unity of all mankind.

Just from Wikipedia: «In Egypt, the victorious Muslims granted religious freedom to the Christian community in Alexandria, for example, and the Alexandrians quickly recalled their exiled Monophysite patriarch to rule over them, subject only to the ultimate political authority of the conquerors.

As those created in God's image, we too bear political authority.

Bruce A. Ackerman, in Social Justice in the Liberal State (Yale University Press, 1980), arguing for an astringently secular, rational model, is faithful to the framers at least in the proposition that «nobody has the right to vindicate political authority by asserting a privileged insight into the moral universe which is denied to the rest of us.»

We are fortunate that Locke chose to comment on this passage, because he directly addresses the way — as in the case of the speaker I was listening to — in which his views are often contrasted with Paul's depiction of God - ordained political authority.

Our own country was established by a revolt against political authority.

By this invocation, the signers engaged in an idolatrous veneration of human political authority.

The Apostle Paul offers pastoral guidance in the difficult question of a Christian attitude vis - à - vis local and regional political authorities.