Sentences with phrase «revolt against the power»

After laying the groundwork for this premise, he writes about various subjects that the church must avoid in order to revolt against these powers and return to living like Jesus.

Meanwhile, as the local churches were revolting against overall control, there was widespread revolt against the power of the ministers in the local churches until «after the Reforming Synod [of 1697], the clergy found themselves shorn of every weapon except moral persuasion, and their threat of [Divine] vengeance.»

Not exact matches

In the early 1520s, Luther's preaching against the power of the Roman Catholic Church served as a rallying cry, helping give these peasant revolts a higher sense of purpose, and providing them with a language of spiritual and political critique.

Since the authorities (and there are many definitions of «authorities,» but they all lead to the same conclusion in the end) in power are ordained by God, every revolt is a revolt against God himself.

In a speech to the Fabian society last week former Labour leader Brown claimed the Brexit result was a «revolt by the regions» against the centralisation of power.

Where as other ethnocentric forms of nationalism are then seen as Equalist movements to balance the roles of power and revolting against the oppressors, see Malcom X for instance.

Today at the New York State Capitol, Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin (R,C,I - Schaghticoke), Assemblyman Pete Lopez (R,C,I - Schoharie), and Senator Tony Avella (D - Queens) called for passage of their «Spirit of «76» legislation for a rank and file revolt against the accumulation of power by legislative leaders.

Also at 10:30 a.m., Assemblymen Jim Tedisco, Steve McLaughlin and Pete Lopez call for passage of «Spirit of «76» legislation for a rank and file revolt against the accumulation of power by legislative leaders, Assembly Chamber, state Capitol, Albany.

Some 75 years earlier, the districts tried to revolt against the Capitol, and this is how the powers that be like to remind the populace of their place.

Archaeologists believe that the rise of Chichen Itza as a major power started around 600 A.D. and continued until the 13th century when the Maya revolted against the rulers of Chichen Itza.

The first is the 1905 revolt of Kinjeketile Ngwale, who — believing in the magic powers of a herbal potion of his creation called maji - maji, meaning «water of life and immortality» — led the first revolt against colonial rule, known as the Maji Maji Rebellion.

Every departure entails risks, is a revolt against the old and the familiar, against the persistent powers that hold us back or restrain us.