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Professor Aaron Michael Oquaye has written and published journals on several topics including politics In Ghana 1982 - 1992, culture, conflict and traditional Authority in Africa: a Ghanaian perspective in the Political economy of peace and security in Africa, human rights in Africa in the new global order: a dilemma as well as civil society and the domestic policy environment in Ghana.

In the secular world, Luther has come to stand for the overthrow of traditional authority in favor of individual subjectivity.

President John Mahama has assured traditional authorities in the country that every part of the country will receive its fair share of development in line with the government's transformation agenda.

The First Lady made this call during a working visit to her office by some Chiefs and Queen mothers from Central region to enlighten her on some concerns of the traditional authorities in the region especially those bordering on jobs, early child marriages, education and development of the region.

She also promised she will work in support of the regional minister and other traditional authorities in the region to ensure issues affecting women such as adolescent girl marriages are dealt with therefore they should «be patience and have confidence in the government.»

The rejection, did not only anger traditional authorities in the town, but some of his followers too.

Meanwhile, traditional authorities in the area have pledged their support to the police in fighting crime but have asked them to act professionally.

Not exact matches

Despite not doing traditional business development in the form of cold calling, Mark, in fact, monetizes his business through what he refers to as «authority,» or being viewed as an industry expert through his own blog and social media content which he says creates an emotional connection with potential clients.

Uber, which allows users to summon a ride through an app on their smartphones, has roiled the traditional taxi industry since it launched in Europe in 2011, triggering protests and clashes with local authorities.

«With the mini-bond program, for the first time since IDBs were created, I can show a potential borrower an IDB financial analysis that makes a lot more sense than a traditional commercial loan,» says Rick Palank, director of the St. Louis County Economic Authority in Missouri, one of the first offices to implement a mini-bond program.

Unlike traditional currencies such as dollars, bitcoins are issued and managed without any central authority whatsoever: there is no government, company, or bank in charge of Bitcoin.

Unlike traditional currencies, bitcoins are not managed by a central authority and exist only in cyberspace.

The micronation seeks to eliminate the traditional need for multiple intermediaries, regulatory authorities, and document circulation, making it potentially the freest country in the world.

«Unlike traditional currency, these alternatives typically are not backed by tangible assets, are not issued by a governmental authority and are subject to little or no regulation,» Gee said in a statement.

Communism westernized the Russian political imagination in a perverse way, to be sure, but its triumph put a complete end to older, more traditional ways of understanding society as a hierarchical system underwritten by a sacred authority.

They are patriarchs, says Wilcox, with a «traditional, authority - minded approach to parenting,» but they are soft patriarchs (more akin, shall we say, to Ned Flanders in «The Simpsons» than to the Commander in Atwood's novel).

In general, members of the ILC see themselves as more traditional than the LWF in their understanding of Scriptural authority and confessional Lutheran theologIn general, members of the ILC see themselves as more traditional than the LWF in their understanding of Scriptural authority and confessional Lutheran theologin their understanding of Scriptural authority and confessional Lutheran theology.

In others, the apparent authority of science has made it hard to affirm in any sort of honest or authentic way the traditional creedIn others, the apparent authority of science has made it hard to affirm in any sort of honest or authentic way the traditional creedin any sort of honest or authentic way the traditional creeds.

Muchembled explains both the development of dueling among the nobility and rural revolts against the centralization of authority as reactions against state repression of traditional codes of violence: «In each case, the participants claimed an eminent right to a straight fight, even if it resulted in the death of the adversary.&raquIn each case, the participants claimed an eminent right to a straight fight, even if it resulted in the death of the adversary.&raquin the death of the adversary.»

The solution they advocate, therefore, can be said to be «modernist»: it believes in essential structures, and proposes that we recover the old and proper integrity of the undergraduate curriculum by reaffirming the centrality, and hence the authority, of those essential structures of understanding that have been defined by the traditional educational canon.

This traditional view was challenged in the nineteenth century but it can still be controversial even today to question the authority of scripture.

Neo-fundamentalists believe they alone are remaining true to the fullness of the gospel and orthodox faith while the rest of the evangelical church is in grave, near - apocalyptic danger of theological drift, moral laxity, and compromise with a postmodern culture — a culture which they see as being characterized by a skepticism towards Enlightenment conceptions of «absolute truth,» a pluralistic blending of diverse beliefs, values, and cultures, and a suspicion of hierarchies and traditional sources of authority.

Those who prize the freedom of the spirit must also question the control of the marriage covenant by ecclesiastical authority, as in Israel today, and as in traditional Roman Catholic practice.

The late Max Stackhouse, a preeminent authority on faith in the age of globalization, pointed out that «one can not imagine trying to understand the politics of China or India without reference to Confucianism or Hinduism, or the systems of government in Southeast Asia or the Middle East without understanding Buddhism or Islam, or what is going on in the EU without reference to the legacy of traditional Christendom.

Your religion shall change from the mere intellectual belief in traditional authority to the actual experience of that living faith which is able to grasp the reality of God and all that relates to the divine spirit of the Father.

Both sides combined a blind confidence in science and progress with a negative attitude towards traditional values and authority.

In response, proponents of Nelson's position charge that the understanding of the Bible held by defenders of the «traditional ethic» gives undue authority to specific texts.

With less than three weeks until the Pope's arrival, Chilean authorities said they were working with the Roman Catholic Church to prepare for an onslaught of tourists at the peak of the austral summer, a traditional time for vacationing in both countries.

So long as the Church was understood as primarily institutional, in terms of its parallelism to a state rather than to a cultural society, and so long as tradition meant resistance to reform, conflict between the principles of traditional and Scriptural authority was inevitable.

Its present success is due to the fact that the collective effort and strong centralized authority associated with it are producing dramatic improvements in the economic, political, and military position of nations hitherto impeded by traditional systems unsuited to industrial civilization.

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.

As the first chapter indicated, constructive evangelical theology is a dynamic blend of Biblical, traditional, and contemporary sources, all operating in such a way as to insure the continued place of Scripture as one's final authority.

It's fascinating since I've mostly been in that very world and am generally a traditional, conservative person who defers to authority figures.

Correspondingly, we can face the loss of dominant authority and power with wisdom and serenity, with an eye to the just aims of newly emerging forces, and, above all, with resolution in maintaining our most creative traditional ideals.

Christianity for the first time in its 2,000 - year history is floating free in a sea of relativity, unable to maintain any of its traditional authority claims.

And this is precisely the authoritarian foundation of traditional preaching, whether that authority be lodged in the church, the Scriptures, the ordination of the clergy, or in the exclusive ability of the clergy, by virtue of their training, to handle aright the eternal truths.

In traditional language this is the question of authority: the question of the authority of Jesus Christ.

Insofar as I promote a public philosophy designed to reinforce the authority of traditional culture, I'm necessarily «judging» those whose lives aren't in accord with that authority teaches.

Finally, secularization's move toward rationality leads to the reevaluation of traditional religious modes of authority in the light of more varied and bureaucratized forms of the same.

In response, many faithful Episcopalians have jumped ship to become Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, or Evangelicals, or formed breakaway churches within the Anglican communion, sometimes under the authority of bishops in Africa and other places where traditional Christian moral beliefs remain intacIn response, many faithful Episcopalians have jumped ship to become Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, or Evangelicals, or formed breakaway churches within the Anglican communion, sometimes under the authority of bishops in Africa and other places where traditional Christian moral beliefs remain intacin Africa and other places where traditional Christian moral beliefs remain intact.

Traditional generational structures of authority have collapsed under multiple economic and political burdens in every region.

The ecclesiastical trial of Father William Wendt in Washington, D.C., over the issue of women's orders symbolized that once the nature of authority is challenged, even in church governance, the very basis of traditional Christian thought and practice crumbles.

In more voluminous and also widely read writings Lamennais presented a fresh apologetic for the Christian faith as against eighteenth - century rationalism, criticized Gallicanism (the traditional belittling of Papal authority in the French Church), and stood for the Papacy as a safeguard of the faitIn more voluminous and also widely read writings Lamennais presented a fresh apologetic for the Christian faith as against eighteenth - century rationalism, criticized Gallicanism (the traditional belittling of Papal authority in the French Church), and stood for the Papacy as a safeguard of the faitin the French Church), and stood for the Papacy as a safeguard of the faith.

The Fascist regime itself, whatever its negative features, probably contributed to that «passive revolution» in another of the senses in which Gramsci used the term, in which important social changes can go on even under reactionary and repressive regimes — the gradual erosion of particularistic and traditional authority structures and the development of more egalitarian social forms — though it may be in the nature of the less effective Italian Fascist regime to have served more as a guardian for such structures and less as a corrosive to them than in the more efficient fascist regimes in Germany and Japan.

In a similar fashion, the Revivalism of the Great Awakening transformed certain of the central symbols of Puritanism and introduced new values and beliefs which questioned not only the authority and function of Crown and Parliament but also the traditional role and power of established clergy and magistrate alike.

Ultimately they replaced the traditional elite figures of authority, the clergy and traditional lay magistrates, with a new figure, a new man — any man who had been reborn in the Spirit and was living out the converted life.

In the post-Christian era divine revelation is no longer seen as a source of knowledge, and the traditional organs of religious authority have become obsolete.

They argued that the increase in wages would be higher for men who meet the traditional masculine traits that are most valued in the workplace: authority and dominance over others, economic stability, educational and labor market success, and heterosexuality.

Mr. Iddrisu therefore, urged the traditional authorities and the people of Ghana to have faith in President Mahama as he is determined to fulfill every promise made.

Speaking at a colloquium on Peaceful Election in Accra, Dr. Chambas also called on civil society, religious leaders and traditional authorities to assume their role in this national endeavour.