They were familiar with the principle that the power of a monarch, regarded as conferred by God, commanded absolute obedience, even though it was under the control of a mortal and fallible person.
In excommunicating Johnson, the church had not only taken the life out of Mormons for E.R.A., but more importantly, it had strengthened its ability to command absolute obedience from its members no matter the issue, ecclesiastical or political.
This explains also the Legalists' emphasis on absolute obedience to the ruler's commands, epitomized by the dictum to punish a minister who disobeyed commands even if the results of his actions were successful (Guanzi 45: 913; Rickett 1998: 150).
Franklin was born and brought up in Boston at a time when moral perfection meant absolute obedience in mind and deed to all of God's commands, something seen as impossible for mere human beings.
Anarchists wanted a society of absolute freedom; Islamists want a society of absolute obedience.
Some situations demand a posture of uncritical and absolute obedience, yes.
After several years, chafing at the requirement for absolute obedience, he quit and moved to Paris to study philosophy.
He, in turn, adopted a traditionally authoritarian manner at home and demanded absolute obedience from wife and children.
Unlike the Persians, the Aztecs, the Zulus, the Ottomans and the Japanese, who brutally enforced absolute obedience, Western fighters have been relatively free to react to shifting events.
It was in this period that objects began to return to her canvases; a final swerve in a life dedicated to absolute obedience to vision.
He also believes in strict segregation of the sexes and, as Islamic law prescribes, the absolute obedience of a wife to her husband.
