Sentences with phrase «power of the king»

Little of the Hebrew Bible's critique of power (the power of kings and military heroes and alleged deities) found its way into Christian christological reflection, except in the thin tradition of the theologia crucis.

The might and power of King Xerxes simply can not be overstated.

That change is due almost single - handedly to the theological power of King's actions and words.

Instead, «Jesus would enter his people's story, tears, sweat, and hunger and show them a way out that doesn't require the financial, military, and political powers of kings and presidents and cabinets.»

There are three levels of power realities in the Bible: One is the Imperial powers, second is the power of kings in the history of Israel, and the third is the politics of the Messiah and politics of God (the Kingdom of Messiah and the Kingdom of God) among the people of God.

The struggle of earlier centuries to free the Church from domination by lay princes was increasingly resolved by the power of each King to appoint the bishops in his realm and to forbid any Papal decree from being published within his borders without his consent.

Franco's perceptive narration intensifies the power of King's words.

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Much of the power of King's works comes from their meticulous execution.

Canute ordered the tide not to come in, in order to demonstrate to his acolytes and sycophants that the power of Kings had no control over nature.

Several, the ones we cherish, serve to constrain the power of the king.

Not exact matches

The news comes as discussions heat up around the anticipated transfer of power from the Kingdom's King Salman to his son Prince Mohammed.

He argued in a blog post that a single figure, even the son of a king, in pushing for a great deal of change in a country where the politics and power accumulated over decades are complicated, could end up producing the opposite of stability.

In the BBC article, Eden King exposes a root cause of sexual harassment: «A belief that women are inferior to men, the belief that men should have power over women,» and, she adds, a belief that «men should be aggressors and women should be gatekeepers.»

Also, notwithstanding a silly fiscal policy and the ongoing political impasse, the U.S. economy has some very good things going for it now, as even king of doom, Nouriel Roubini, couldn't help but note: the Fed is going to stick to its asset - buying regime for the foreseeable future, providing a monetary protein shake the recovery still very much needs; the housing rebound is well on its way, which is helping Americans rebuild their wealth and is boosting employment in many states with high jobless rates; and the shale oil and gas revolution continues to power investment, job creation and revenue growth.

Amazon Web Services remains the king of cloud, according to Gartner's latest research: In fact, the amount of computing power it is supplying customers is more than ten times that of the other top 14 cloud providers combined.

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California remains the king of U.S. solar power capacity, but growth is migrating to the Southeast and Midwest.

According to anthropologists of the South Pacific islands, a Big Man wasn't a king or chieftain who seized power by force; rather, he led his fellow villagers through a combination of persuasion, wealth and moral standing.

King wrote that when acting as a federal prosecutor, Sessions used his power to «chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens.»

«Some EU members, especially Germany, are concerned about Chinese investment in the so - called periphery of the union, as well as about the acquisition of strategically sensitive infrastructure such as ports, power plants and key technologies,» Igor Rogelja, a researcher at the Lau China Institute at King's College London, said.

King would have viewed this legislation as one of the decrepit consequences of unchecked late capitalism: a wealthy, charlatan president who leverages anti-black racism and fear in order to exploit the power of the presidency for personal gain.

Martin Moore, director of the Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power at King's College, told the Guardian's Carole Cadwalladr that Trump's campaign «was using 40 - 50,000 variants of ads every day that were continuously measuring responses and then adapting and evolving based on that response.»

Hits like «Honour of Kings» powered another blockbuster quarter for the $ 565 bln web titan.

Should Stephen Harper's Conservatives remain in power until that time, they will become the country's longest - lasting minority government, surpassing by about a month that of Mackenzie King's 1921 - 1925 administration.

Let's be clear about this corporo - fuedal world we live in: the CEOs are the kings and queens, the board are the nobility, and economists and other business school academics are their knights errant, imbued with the holy quest of maintaining power for their corporate masters.

The roundup was described as a sweeping corruption investigation but widely seen as an effort to consolidate power by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a son and the top adviser of King Salman, who succeeded his half brother and became king of Saudi Arabia in January 2King Salman, who succeeded his half brother and became king of Saudi Arabia in January 2king of Saudi Arabia in January 2015.

It was manufactured for Malaysia's Sultan of Johor, and features luxury and power symbols fit for a king.

Shares of Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) is still a Buy at Argus even after shares climbed 20 percent following the company's strong fourth - quarter results, which were powered by «Overwatch» and King Digital's «Candy Crush.»

There was Nathan, of course, who through the sheer power of story struck King David to the heart.

The real message Rush wants the people to know is that money makes you King in this world, and ultimate though temporary power on the planet is more important than getting into the gates of eternal heaven.

Stephen King fancies himself someone of power in his New England community.

In the 18th century Baron Montesquieu admired the English constitution whose durability and protection of liberty he ascribed to its division of powers, including a balanced relationship between King, Lords, and Commons; an independent judiciary; and the jury system.

There are many examples of people who believed in prayer, like Jackie Robinson and Martin Luther King, JR, who testified to the strength it gave them to face an angry, powerful and hostile power that hated them.

9:10)-- where of course «fear» does not mean blind terror but the reverence and worship, honor and obedience that are due a great king, who rules with both power and wisdom.

And those who have the privilege of being selected to go to heaven, serve in an official capacity as «kings and priests» (Rev 1:6), not as equals to God, but as 144,000 individuals who recognize that God, whose name is Jehovah, is the Grand Creator of all the universe, with these ones casting their crowns before God's throne, saying: «You are worthy, Jehovah, even our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power, because you created all things, and because of your will they existed and were created.»

Failure to keep in line results in strong punishment in order to return the balance of power to the king.

No suprise both these religions were spread by the power of the sword, forcible unfair taxation and supporting missionaries who proselyticised the king / emperors faith.

But gee, so Dorothy Day, the SCLS and Martin Luther King and all those religiously oriented people who restrain their baser impulses, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, take in children no one else wants, seek justice for those society devalues in the name of money, power, or maintaining the hold of the class in power — all based on their beliefs — are dangerous to society and mentally ill?

Contemplate this Stephen King quote, then decide if these religious nutters are right, or just stealing his thunder with their delusions: «The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything.

After listing Charlemagne's previous conquests as evidence of his power, he introduces the main theme with a rhetorical question: «Under these conditions, was it not to be expected» that the king should add a more general title commensurate with his authority?

My article made note of old claims about the divine right of kings, not because I imagine such claims were true even in their own time, but because they at least offered a theory about why the state is justified in exercising power over life and death.

When the Magi offer him gold, which indicates a king, we are invited to lessen the tribute we offer to the power structures to which we belong and on which we depend; when they offer him frankincense, which indicates a priest, we are invited to tiptoe out from under the delusions of our sacred canopies, to be drawn into the jagged - edged sacrifice of presence that this Priest will carry out; and when they offer him myrrh, which indicates a prophet's death, the Magi invite our hearts to lighten as death loses its hold over our drives and desires.

In 597 AD, the evangelisation of Britain under Pope St Gregory the Great was able to happen precisely because that faithful married couple St Ethelbert and St Bertha, King and Queen of Kent, by their material — and more importantly their moral — power, enabled it to happen.

As is made clear by the inscription above the mosaic, and as was undoubtedly understood by the gentle Edward himself, the power to which the Saint King is here depicted as kneeling, is not one of political dominion but of gentleness — the power of powerlessness: WE HAVE BEEN REDEEMED BY YOUR SACRED BLOOD.

Undoubtedly, as Joseph and Mary worked their way toward Bethlehem, their eyes looked frequently to this fortress upon a hill, reminding them of King Herod's power, glory, and might.

All the accounts of King Ahasuerus have ceased to exist, with all of his power and glory.

Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and other like - minded apostles of social change, and their followers, have been effective in challenging the prevailing power structure because they did not merely appeal to reason and high purposes.

Again, for one who holds secular power, the other relations are power relations, and the king makes the mistake of the normal politician; he turns to a politician to solve a problem.

Thus the king might have shown himself to the humble maiden in all the pomp of his power, causing the sun of his presence to rise over her cottage, shedding a glory over the scene, and making her forget herself in worshipful admiration.