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	Theology Today - Vol 45, No.4 - January 1989 - ARTICLE - Holy Disobedience in Esther (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Disobedience emerges as most appropriate when survival is at stake, when one has nothing to lose and only after extended periods of communal preparation, prayer, and fasting.
		Disobedience is characterized by befriending the enemy, fear of the Lord, and bravery.
		For the disobedient spirit, references to God continue to be omitted, not because of God's absence, but perhaps because the disobedient one never enjoys the absolute certainty that the voice calling to disobedience is clearly the voice of God.
	theologytoday.ptsem.edu /jan1989/v45-4-article2.htm (5709 words)

	Abortion Civil Disobedience
		These and other biblical cases of justified civil disobedience seem to have the following factors in common: (1) the state commands the believer to do something contrary to the Word of God; (2) the command is disobeyed; and (3) there is explicit or implicit divine approval of the refusal to obey the state.
		Whereas direct civil disobedience involves the breaking of a law when it compels me to sin or do evil, indirect civil disobedience occurs when the law allows someone else to sin, and we break a law or some laws to protest what they are doing.
		For instance, we agree that civil disobedience is not always wrong for the Christian; we agree that pro-lifers have no obligation to commit acts of civil disobedience; and we agree that such acts are most likely imprudent in the struggle to save lives today.
	www.inplainsite.org /html/abortion_civil_disobedience_.html (5643 words)

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		To be disobedient is to yield to self-will instead of surrendering to God and desiring His will in all things.
		To become disobedient is to sin or rebel against God (I Samuel 15:22,23).
		Disobedience to God and those in authority over you can block the joy, blessings and inner peace which God desires for you.
	www.cbn.com /spirituallife/cbnTeachingSheets/Obedience_and_Disobedience.asp (779 words)

	Guide to Civil Disobedience : Resources : Wage Peace Campaign : AFSC
		Civil disobedience is a refusal to obey an order from a civil authority or public nonviolent violation of a legal prohibition.
		As understood by the American Friends Service Committee, civil disobedience is a conscience-based, heartfelt action which, while in violation of the law, reflects and draws on the religious convictions that are the base of AFSC's service and which witnesses to AFSC perspectives on major societal issues.
		When contemplating civil disobedience, therefore, an individual should be aware of its potential for good or ill, and before undertaking it, carefully examine his or her options, motivations, and attitudes.
	afsc.org /iraq/activism/civil-disobedience.htm (856 words)

	Civil Disobedience
		In order to properly discuss civil disobedience and whether or not it is moral to disobey laws, we must first characterize civil disobedience.
		Civil disobedience is about purposefully disobeying a law or rule to make a point, to try and change laws and rules in a specific situation, and is disobedience that is executed in a non-violent manner.
		The arguments against civil disobedience are that if people start disobeying laws, there could be a slippery slope effect and cause more and more unrest and soon no one would obey laws because every law might seem unjust to someone.
	members.aol.com /wutsamada2/ethics/essays/pitts.htm (1991 words)

	SUMMA THEOLOGICA: Is disobedience a mortal sin? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Therefore to be disobedient to the commandments of God is a mortal sin, because it is contrary to the love of God.
		Wherefore also disobedience to the commands of a superior is a mortal sin, as being contrary to the love of God, according to Rm.
		Nor again is every mortal sin disobedience, properly and essentially, but only when one contemns a precept, since moral acts take their species from the end.
	www.newadvent.org /summa/310501.htm (508 words)

	Jacket 18 - Libbie Rifkin reviews "Disobedience", by Alice Notley
		In Disobedience, the caves are already covered in writing—the letter ‘E’ comes to stand for what’s most common in language—and as such they’re (oddly enough for caves) too purely surface to offer any lasting answers.
		As a collage of dreams, Disobedience covers vast amounts of fantastical ground, but in waking life, it stays close to home, and in the final section, the poet makes peace with her environment by opening new vistas within it.
		Disobedience breathes easier as a result of these ‘space[s] between official places,’ rendered graphic by the long dashes that break the sections into even smaller units, and figurative—in the final fifth of the book especially—through the image of the room the poet discovers in her wall.
	jacketmagazine.com /18/rifkin-notley.html (1526 words)

	Disobedience, Basilea Schlink
		And the curse of this disobedience is already manifest in all the horror of sin, which ruins lives and leads to chaos.
		But if Christians are disobedient and change the standards of the commandments in a false manner, they will have to bear serious consequences.
		If God convicts us of disobedience and we find it difficult to be obedient to His will, we should look at the countenance of Jesus, which is pure love and tells us that His will is goodness.
	articles.christiansunite.com /article839.shtml (1257 words)

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		When children have been disobedient for long periods--routinely talking back to and having outbursts aimed at their parents and others--there is often conflict and disorganization within the family as a whole.
		If your child has only recently started to demonstrate disrespect and disobedience, tell him that you have noticed a difference in his behavior and that you sense he is unhappy or struggling.
		If he becomes disobedient and out of control, impose a timeout until he calms down and regains self-control.
	rvpi.com /AAP/Disobedience.htm (692 words)

	Civil Disobedience (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Elliot Zashin, author of Civil Disobedience and Democracy, defines civil disobedience as, “a knowing violation of public norm (considered binding by local authorities but which may ultimately be invalidated by the courts) as a form of protest: it is non-revolutionary, public, and nonviolent (i.e.
		Socrates, a Greek philosopher, when forced with a suicide execution refused escape because he had profited from the laws of Athens thus far, was given a chance to prove himself innocent, and therefore he was bound to obey all laws and decisions of the government.
		Furthermore, the slippery slope argues that civil disobedience cannot be universalized because the result would be chaos, but Zashin argues, “Civil disobedients do not claim an absolute right to disobey; disobedience is permissible, they claim, only under narrowly defined conditions.
	members.aol.com /wutsamada2/ethics/essays/roberts.htm (1481 words)

	Peter Suber, "Civil Disobedience"
		Civil disobedience is a form of protest in which protestors deliberately violate a law.
		While civil disobedience in a broad sense is as old as the Hebrew midwives' defiance of Pharaoh, most of the moral and legal theory surrounding it, as well as most of the instances in the street, have been inspired by Thoreau, Gandhi, and King.
		In this tradition, A.J. Muste argued that to use legal channels to fight unjust laws is to participate in an evil machine, and to disguise dissent as conformity; this in turn corrupts the activist and discourages others by leading them to underestimate the numbers of their congeners.
	www.earlham.edu /~peters/writing/civ-dis.htm (1767 words)

	Civil Disobedience (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The rationale is that a people's basic moral sense will eventually be outraged enough to change things if they are constantly confronted with nonviolent events (at least on the side of the dissenters) which showcase the problem which should be addressed.
		Otherwise, to declare that the law in ALL circumstances is to be obeyed, is to suppress the very spirit of democracy, to surrender individual conscience to an omnipotent state.
		Nonviolent civil disobedience was a critical factor in gaining women the right to vote in the United States, as well.
	www.accd.edu /pac/philosop/phil1301/civildisob.htm (2868 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Civil Disobedience Study Guide
		Thoreau exhorts his reader to "action from principle" but again weighs the proportionality of the "remedy" (the measures of civil disobedience taken in the name of resistance) to the "evil" (the injustice to be remedied).
		Thoreau faces the difficult philosophical task of circumscribing the legitimate uses of civil disobedience even as he attempts to lay down a rationale for it.
		Civil disobedience does, however, involve at least two restrictions: 1) the means of resistance advocated and practiced by Thoreau are nonviolent (though in later political writings, he appears to change his mind on this matter); 2) the act of resistance should specifically target the injustice to be remedied.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/disobedience/section3.html (1002 words)

	Yale Law Journal \| D. Markovits, Democratic Disobedience
		Such liberal justifications are well suited to certain classes of civil disobedience—in particular, to disobedience in protest of laws or policies that violate basic rights.
		The traditional theory of liberal disobedience is therefore increasingly inadequate to the practice of disobedience on the ground.
		According to this theory, civil disobedience may be justified when there is a democratic deficit in the processes that have produced the laws against which the disobedience protests.
	www.yalelawjournal.org /abstract.asp?id=489 (321 words)

	SUMMA THEOLOGICA: Is disobedience the most grievous of sins? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Further, the Apostle says (Romans 5:19) that "by the disobedience of one man, many were made sinners." Now the cause is seemingly greater than its effect.
		Accordingly the various degrees of disobedience must correspond with the various degrees of precepts: because the disobedience in which there is contempt of God's precept, from the very nature of disobedience is more grievous than a sin committed against a man, apart from the latter being a disobedience to God.
		The disobedience that contains contempt of a man's precept is less grievous than the sin which contemns the man who made the precept, because reverence for the person commanding should give rise to reverence for his command.
	www.newadvent.org /Summa/310502.htm (763 words)

	Sample Chapter for Thoreau, H.D.; Glick, W., ed.: The Higher Law: Thoreau on Civil Disobedience and Reform.
		Gandhi was arrested, but the civil disobedience continued for a year, in the course of which salt depots were occupied, and protesters were met with brutal police attacks.
		Mothers should encourage their sons not to go." One of the most dramatic instances of civil disobedience against the war was that of the heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, who refused to serve in what he called a "white man's war." As punishment, boxing authorities took away his title as champion.
		In the end, behind the hard actions of civil disobedience (soft in relation to the actions of government), there is a desire for a life in which all that will not be necessary.
	pup.princeton.edu /chapters/i7719.html (5318 words)

	Thoughts on Obedience and Disobedience (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It is not, however, permissible to generalize from this offense and to conclude that this government now possesses no claim to obedience in some of its other demands, or even in all its demands.
		Disobedience can never be anything but a concrete decision in a single particular case.
		Even in cases where the guilt of the government is extremely obvious, due consideration must still be given to the guilt which has given rise to this guilt.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9611/thoughts.html (482 words)

	A Christian Perspective of Civil Disobedience
		Jesus was clearly disobedient to the authorities on the legal issue, but he submitted to their authority.
		The civil disobedience we see in Acts 5:29 ("We must obey God rather than men!") was selective and limited to that single area where the authorities contradicted the clear command of God.
		Disobedience must always be a last resort and it must be directed by a conscience renewed by God's word; if we disobey simply because we want to, then we are being rebellious and dishonoring God.
	www.foxven.com /s-civ.html (12602 words)

	Working Toward Social Change with Civil Disobedience
		Civil disobedience is defined as an act of breaking a law to draw public attention to a problem concerning human rights.
		Civil disobedience is generally nonviolent, and most citizens that participate in such actions are not trying to defy law enforcement, but are looking for expressive, yet peaceful ways to be heard on certain issues.
		As a result, women were granted the right to vote, unions were established and companies were required to provide safe working conditions for their employees.
	www.njsbf.com /njsbf/student/respect/spring02-1.cfm (962 words)

	Articles : Civil Disobedience
		Mass civil disobedience may be and often is selfish in the sense that individuals expect personal gain from their disobedience.
		We have too long been mentally disobedient to the laws of the State and have too often surreptitiously evaded them, to be fixed all of a sudden for civil disobedience.
		Disobedience to be civil has to be open and non-violent.
	www.gandhi-manibhavan.org /eduresources/article8.htm (911 words)

	Brian Kim Stefans: Notes from the Underground
		Written in Paris from 1995 to 1996, Disobedience is in method something of a synthesis of Notley’s last two books, both of which also pursued clearly defined conceptual projects.
		Disobedience is also a serial poem, but each of its irreverently, often histrionically, titled sections is a constellations of fragments, some of which resemble barbed fortune cookies—“Starving because there are ‘jobs’ in our consciousness”—and others which run as long as a page.
		This gives the book a unique pacing that is both centrifugal (her imagination could take us anywhere) and centripetal, as the breaks return the reader to a familiar place, to a closed set of obsessions.
	www.bostonreview.net /BR27.6/stefans.html (1170 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Disobedience: Books: Naomi Alderman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		'Disobedience' works because of the quality of the writing which mixes various styles and points of view effortlessly, and the events of each chapter are connected thematically to an aspect of the Orthodox Jewish faith.
		The characters are compelling; Ronit who is caught between the orthodox and the secular worlds, Dovid who is being pushed into a position of responsibility he doesn't want, and his wife Esti for whom Ronit's return to the community offers the chance that long-dreamt dreams might possibly come true.
		I can't speak for Jewish readers but for those who belong to another (or no) faith, 'Disobedience' is a fascinating look at a community that does its best to be ignored, and reveals what many would consider flaws, as well as strengths that show why the faith endures.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Disobedience-Naomi-Alderman/dp/0670916285 (1197 words)

	ON ELECTRONIC CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE BY STEFAN WRAY
		This adds credence to the notion that rather than pure electronic civil disobedience, we are likely to see a proliferation of hybridized actions that involve a multiplicity of tactics, combining actions on the street and actions in cyberspace.
		But as attempts to prevent people from engaging in traditional civil disobedience have failed before or have at least not been universally successful, we can expect that whatever net the government creates in attempts to capture future cyber-activists will be strewn with holes and ways of evasion will be possible.
		In the near future, we can expect to see hybrid civil disobedience actions that will involve people taking part in electronic civil disobedience from behind their computer screens while simultaneously people are engaging in more traditional forms of civil disobedience out in the streets.
	cristine.org /borders/Wray_Essay.html (2705 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: About Civil Disobedience
		He composed a letter from jail that he would later integrate into Civil Disobedience, published in 1849 under the title Resistance to Civil Government.
		(It is interesting to note that the term "civil disobedience" does not appear in the actual essay.) Thoreau's incarceration brought him firsthand knowledge of the coercive and oppressive tactics used by government to compel its citizens into support of immoral and unjust policies.
		Civil Disobedience was first delivered on January 26, 1848 as a lecture at the Concord Lyceum, a center of education for reform-minded thinkers and citizens.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/disobedience/about.html (415 words)

	Thoreau's Civil Disobedience
		While Walden can be applied to almost anyone's life, "Civil Disobedience" is like a venerated architectural landmark: it is preserved and admired, and sometimes visited, but for most of us there are not many occasions when it can actually be used.
		In the 1940's it was read by the Danish resistance, in the 1950's it was cherished by people who opposed McCarthyism, in the 1960's it was influential in the struggle against South African apartheid, and in the 1970's it was discovered by a new generation of anti-war activists.
		This essay is often associated with passive civil disobedience, and some have assumed that Thoreau's support of John Brown was a change from his earlier position.
	thoreau.eserver.org /civil.html (377 words)

	MPR Books - "Disobedience" by Jane Hamilton
		Disobedience is the Talking Volumes selection for January/February 2002.
		Henry's observations, set down 10 years after that fateful year, are much more than the "old story" of adultery his mother deemed her affair to be.
		With her inimitable grace and compassion, Jane Hamilton has created in Disobedience a novel of gentle humor and rich insights into the nature of love and the deep, mysterious bonds that hold families together.
	www.mpr.org /www/books/titles/hamilton_disobedience.shtml (393 words)

	civil disobedience
		civil disobedience, refusal to obey a law or follow a policy believed to be unjust.
		In the modern era, civil disobedience has been used in such events as street demonstrations, marches, the occupying of buildings, and strikes and other forms of economic resistance.
		Attracting a huge number of followers from the Indian public, Gandhi was able to use the technique as an effective political tool and play a key role in bringing about the British decision to end colonial rule of his homeland.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/society/A0909663.html (529 words)

	SparkNotes: Civil Disobedience: Context
		In addition to Civil Disobedience (1849), Thoreau is best known for his book Walden (1854), which documents his experiences living alone on Walden Pond in Massachusetts from 1845-1847.
		He practiced civil disobedience in his own life and spent a night in jail for his refusal to pay taxes in protest of the Mexican War.
		Thoreau and other opponents of the war argued that the campaign constituted an unnecessary act of aggression and that it was pursued on the basis of arrogance rather than any philosophically justifiable reasons.
	www.sparknotes.com /philosophy/civildisobedience/context.html (375 words)

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