Sentences with phrase «use coercive power»

To the extent that the government can use its coercive power to define elements of an offense, render a judgment against you (in civil court) and enforce it, as cpast observes, it is government action.

(1) Hare and Madden use the analogy of a parent and child and argue that just as a parent is morally required to use enough extrinsic motivation on his child to protect the child and society so God should use coercive power to prevent excess evil.

Hence, both Brunner and Niebuhr make much of the need to use coercive power to secure even an approximate justice in human relations.

(4) The State must use coercive power to enforce its authority; the Christian can accept some forms of coercion as right and necessary, but at others his conscience is bound to rebel.

But if this is so, how can process theists still maintain that God would not use coercive power even if it were available?

If God would use coercive power if it were available, then there are, in principle, times when divine persuasion plus divine coercion would bring about more worthwhile results.

If the Russian government tries to use the coercive power of law to unite them under the Moscow Patriarchate, will the Russian Orthodox Church vigorously protest and insist on the right of Kyivan Patriarchate parishes to exist, even though it regards them as schismatic?

On the other hand, if the answer is yes — that is, if divine persuasion alone does not maximize human freedom to the extent that such persuasion and divinely approved human coercion does — then it is difficult to see why the process God would not use coercive power if this were an option.

But it is then very difficult to see why God would want us to use coercive power or how the classical God of free will theism can be criticized for not coercing.

The Australian Financial Review reported today on proposed new rules to allow the ACCC to use its coercive powers under s 155 whenever it suspects price signalling has occurred (rather than waiting until it suspects competitors have agreed to collude).

He uses the coercive power of the state to force other people to give him, gratis, the fruits of their labor.

A libel case, like all lawsuits, involves the government's judicial branch using its coercive power to make you pay money as a result of your speech, based on a law requiring you to pay money for certain kinds of speech.

Not exact matches

The one place where the exception is clearly visible is in the anonymous Letter to Diognetus from the mid-second century CE, where [45] God's use of persuasive and not coercive power is affirmed in regard to how God leads wayward humanity to salvation: The invisible God, the Ruler and Creator of all, sent «the Designer and Maker of the universe himself, by whom he created... like a king sending his son who is himself a king.

The easiest access point for most is to say that because God IS love, then God's very nature is loving, and so God's use of power is not coercive - it is persuasive (almost seductive).

Many are reminded of abusive church members who have used love as coercive leverage to garner control and power.

This simple point helps to reveal an ambiguous use of the word «coercive»: (1) Sometimes the speaker seems to be saying or implying that coercive power is that power which is successful, strong, efficient, and competent.

During his homily at the Mass pro eligendo Romano Pontifice [for the election of the Roman Pontiff] on April 18, 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger cautioned his fellow - cardinals that John Paul II's successor would have to deal with an emerging «dictatorship of relativism» throughout the western world: the use of coercive state power to impose an agenda of dramatic moral deconstruction on all of society.

This opened the way to affirming the use of coercive power by humans as well.

And if and when force is used, let us not hallow it by thinking of God as essentially such coercive power.

If by power we intend to signify, as most often is intended, the use of coercive measures whether these be overt or subtle and hidden, then it would seem that to ascribe such a quality to God as His chief characteristic — as in fact, if not in word, is suggested when people talk as did my questioner — is a denial of the point of Christ's disclosure of God.

Let us first assume that a perfect being would only use persuasive power and, thus, that since the God of process theism is perfect, coercive power would never be used even if it were available.

Likewise, it in no sense necessarily follows from the fact that God can not coerce in any sense that God thinks that coercive power ought never be used by those who can exert it.

If God believes that some coercion is a useful and morally acceptable means of achieving a desired end, then there appears to be no reason why such coercive power would not be used if it were available.

It would seem, rather, that we, mirroring the divine ranking of values, should also refrain from all coercive uses of power.

This is why God sometimes approves of (lures us toward) coercion on the human level even though such coercive power would never be used by God even if it were available.

If this is what process theists believe, then we might well expect them to criticize any use of coercive power on the human level.

The final question, as to the Christian conscience and the coercive use of military power by one State upon another, we shall defer to the next chapter which will be devoted centrally to this issue.

This use of power may appear more bloody, but it is less coercive and less destructive than the power to prevent change.

(1) If there were a good and powerful God, he would in some respects allow freedom using only persuasive power; but if he were good and powerful, he would use more coercive power to prevent destructive evil than is apparently being used in the world.

(4) In the absence of an explanation why God does not use more coercive power and is not more effective in his persuasion we may as reasonably conclude that there is a great evil persuasive power behind phenomena in the world as that there is a great power persuading toward the good.

I find myself in fundamental agreement with Cobb that the really worthwhile power that God should exercise is persuasive, and I would meet the first criticism by saying that God should not use more coercive power than is apparently being exercised in the world.

But coercive power used for domination is more costly and less likely to prevail than non-coercive power.

Above all, the coercive power of our legal system, already stretched thin, must be used with caution and chiefly against evils about which there is something like universal consensus.

But there was even an effort in that legislation that was being proposed by the government to ensure that we would see coercive powers used against workers rather than used against employers who were intentionally underpaying those workers or other workers in the labour market.

It is unfortunate that anyone who holds contrary position to that of the ruling Npp is subjected to unnecessary intimidation and harassment with the use of coercive apparatus of power.

This appeared to demand a substantial use of the coercive power of the state.

She said new powers to tackle domestic abuse, including controlling or coercive behaviour, were effective but were «not being used anywhere near as systematically as they could be».

It seems wrong that the coercive power of the state should be used to force an unconsented transfer from A to B where the operation of the open market has failed to generate the required bargain by means of normal arm's length dealing.

While the tribunal may use its new coercive powers to make parties attend mediation and produce documents it can not force parties to mediate.

What might the concept of / use of Coercive Power have to do with how real estate purchases / sales are sometimes influenced / transacted?

Those with the fear - of - failure - syndrome firmly embedded in their brains (most newbies) are ripe for the infiltration of the use of Coercive Power of Fear psychological tactics into their arsenals of influence, and that is not a good thing ORE..