In terms of values, Leeming contrasts " the myth of Jesus " with the myths of other " Christian heroes such as St. George, Roland, el Cid, and even King Arthur "; the latter hero myths, Leeming argues, reflect the survival of pre-Christian heroic values —" values of military dominance and cultural differentiation and hegemony "— more than the values expressed in the Christ story. Pomors often depicted Sirin s on the illustrations in the Book of Genesis as birds sitting in paradise trees.

Their major issues include the ordination of women, male dominance in Christian marriage, recognition of equal spiritual and moral abilities, reproductive rights, and the search for a feminine or gender-transcendent divine.

This was gradually alleviated as Spain and other Christian powers began to check Muslim naval dominance in the Mediterranean after the 1571 victory at Lepanto, but it would be a scourge that continued to afflict the country even in the next century.

Modern Lebanon's constitution, drawn up in 1926, specified a balance of power between the various religious groups, but France designed it to guarantee the political dominance of its Christian allies.

Because of the dominance of Christianity in Europe throughout the Middle Ages, many features of the Christian year became incorporated into the secular calendar.

From an economic viewpoint, Radhanite Trade dominance was being usurped by coordinated Christian and Islamic forced-conversions, and torture, compelling Jewish scholars to understand nascent economic threats.

Mercia's position of dominance, established after the battle of Maserfield, was destroyed, and Northumbrian dominance was restored ; Mercia itself was divided, with the northern part being taken by Oswiu outright and the southern part going to Penda's Christian son Peada, who had married into the Bernician royal line ( although Peada survived only until his murder in 656 ).

Nirmal criticised Brahminic dominance of Christian theology in India, and believed that the application of liberation theology to India should reflect the struggle of Dalits, who make up about 70 % of Christians in India.

In the Christian era ( more properly the era of the First seven Ecumenical Councils ) the Church came to accept it was the Emperor's duty to use secular power to enforce religious unity, anyone within the Church who did not subscribe to Catholic Christianity was seen as a threat to the dominance and purity of " the one true faith " and they saw it as their right to defend this by all means at their disposal.

But there is also clear evidence of mixed bathing from the late Republic until the rise of Christian dominance in the later Empire.

They retained their religious authority until the era of Christian dominance, when the Christian emperor Gratian confiscated their revenues and his successor Theodosius I closed the Temple of Vesta permanently.

The party system of the so-called First Republic ( 1946 – 1994 ), though based on a proportional electoral law, saw the dominance of the Christian Democracy ( DC ) and the conventio ad excludendum against the Italian Communist Party ( PCI ).

As the Discovery Institute states, intelligent design is central to this agenda: " Design theory promises to reverse the stifling dominance of the materialist worldview, and to replace it with a science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions.

The Wedge Document of 1999 states " Design theory promises to reverse the stifling dominance of the materialist world view, and to replace it with a science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions.

Some of the animus against ECUSA derived in part from the general dominance of theological liberalism within Anglicanism, abhorrent to many who consider the Augsburg Confession and the other writings in the Book of Concord to be definitive of proper Christian belief and practice.

This long period of dominance of the Højre party under the leadership of Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup with the backing of the king Christian IX of Denmark was named the provisorietid ( provisional period ) because the government was based on provisional laws instead of parliamentary decisions.

The capital Mahdia was attacked by Genoa and Pisa in 1088 and forced to pay a high ransom-a sign of the growing dominance of Christian powers in the Mediterranean which also manifested itself in the Norman conquest of Sicily ( 1061 – 1062 ).

The Coonan Cross Oath ( Koonan Kurishu Satyam ), taken on January 3, 1653, was a public avowal by members of the Saint Thomas Christian community of Kerala, India that they would not submit to Portuguese dominance in ecclesiastical and secular life.

Senator Philip Le Feuvre topped the poll in 1948 on a platform of implementing Social SecurityThe first election under the new constitution saw a struggle for dominance between the Jersey Democratic Movement and the Jersey Progressive Party, led by Cyril Le Marquand.

The minority party, the Kenya African Democratic Union ( KADU ), representing a coalition of small tribes that had feared dominance by larger ones, dissolved itself voluntarily in 1964 and former members joined KANU.

** In the Finnish parliamentary election, the Centre Party wins 55 of 200 seats in the Parliament of Finland, ending 25 years of dominance by the Social Democratic Party of Finland.

Red River Parish has been a Democratic Party stronghold since the party reestablished dominance in 1876.

That election was still in the era of Democratic Party dominance in Georgia, when winning the Democratic primary was tantamount to election.

Although Maddox was elected as a Democratic candidate at the same time as Jimmy Carter's election as governor, the two were not running mates ; in Georgia, particularly in that era of Democratic dominance, the winners of the primary elections went on to easy victories in the general elections without campaigning together as an official ticket or as running mates.

The Democratic dominance was broken by William O ' Connell Bradley, who was elected the state's first Republican governor in 1895.

It was also followed by Democratic dominance of the Governorship for 90 years.

Due to the dominance of the then Democratic Party of Van Buren, Polk, and Buchanan the American School was not embraced as the economic philosophy of the United States until the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, who with a series of laws during the American Civil War was able to fully implement what Hamilton, Clay, List, and Carey theorized, wrote about, and advocated.

Many thought that Foley could siphon off enough votes from McCollum to allow Runbeck to sneak up the middle and end the long run of Democratic dominance in the district.

In the 1999 MPR General Session, PPP was part of the Central Axis, a political coalition of Muslim parties which was formed by MPR Chairman, Amien Rais to counter the dominance of Megawati Sukarnoputri's Indonesian Democratic Party-Struggle ( PDI-P ).

The Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro continued its dominance in Montenegrin politics by emerging victorious once again on 2009 parliamentary election.

Some, such as Schafer and Reichley, argue that the patterns are longer, closer to 50 to 60 years in duration, noting the Democratic dominance from 1800 to 1860, and Republican rule from 1860 to 1932.

Thirty-six years later, that system was displaced by a cycle of Democratic dominance, lasting throughout the Great Depression and beyond.

The relative dominance of the Democratic party through the 1930s through the 1960s coincided with a precipitous drop in the membership and effectiveness of the College Republicans.

When asked about the strategy of using race as an issue to build GOP dominance in the once-Democratic South, Mehlman replied, " Republican candidates often have prospered by ignoring black voters and even by exploiting racial tensions ," and, " by the ' 70s and into the ' 80s and ' 90s, the Democratic Party solidified its gains in the African-American community, and we Republicans did not effectively reach out.

His short career witnessed a turning point in New York State politics, in which the Democratic Party increasingly returned to positions of power after a long period of Republican dominance in many jurisdictions since the career of Grover Cleveland.

In doing so, he highlights that U. S. foreign policy – whether controlled by Republican or Democratic administrations – still follows the same agenda of gaining access to lucrative resources and maintaining U. S. world dominance.

With the understanding that the dominance of the landowners in the rural areas was to be absolute under any Liberal Alliance government, the Northeastern oligarchies were thus integrated into the Vargas alliance in a subordinate status via a new political party, the Social Democratic Party ( PSD ).

As the " eloquent propagandist " of the Democratic Party, Holden was a key contributor to his party's successes in 1850, which ended years of Whig dominance in the state.

The Democratic dominance of the South originated in many white Southerners ' animosity towards the Republican Party's stance in favor of political rights for blacks during Reconstruction and Republican economic policies such as the high tariff and the support for continuing the gold standard, both of which were seen as benefiting Northern industrial interests at the expense of the agrarian South in the 19th century.

The southern Whigs tried different political moves, but could not reverse the regional dominance of the Democratic Party.

The Social Democrats had aimed to increase independence of the Finns since the spring of 1917, but now they could not use it for the direct political benefit of their party, and had either to adjust to the right's dominance or try to change everything via a revolution.

This dominance ended with the emergence of a new party, Avenir Ensemble, also opposed to independence but considered more open to dialogue with the Kanak movement, which is part of FLNKS, a coalition of several pro-independence groups.

Because of the Russians ' dominance in the affairs of the union, the RSFSR failed to develop some of the institutions of governance and administration that were typical of public life in the other republics: a republic-level communist party, a Russian academy of sciences, and Russian branches of trade unions, for example.

Patriarchal theory maintains that the primary element of patriarchy is a relationship of dominance, where one party is dominant and exploits the other party for the benefit of the former.

Though coalition and minority governments have been an occasional feature of parliamentary politics, the first-past-the-post electoral system used for general elections tends to maintain the dominance of these two parties, though each has in the past century relied upon a third party to deliver a working majority in Parliament.

The second main grouping in the Conservative party is the " free-market wing " of economic liberals who achieved dominance after the election of Margaret Thatcher as party leader in 1975.

Reflecting the dominance of liberal and conservative politics in the United States, no major party and few elected officials advocate communitarianism.

He has remained active in the affairs of the Victorian Labor Party, and has recently been critical of what he sees as the dominance of factions in the party, particularly the Labor Right.

Bermuda electoral politics has been characterized by single-party dominance: the UBP was the dominant party from 1968 to 1998, winning every election ; while the PLP has continuously been in power since 1998.

Years of repression and clandestinity, as well as Haya de la Torre's single-handed dominance of the party, resulted in striking sectarian and hierarchical traits.

Further, Lee's dominance in the party was revealed when the candidates TSU nominated had all been personally approved by Lee beforehand.

The Neshaminy School Board and Middletown Township Board of Supervisors both lack a one party dominance, which used to be mostly or all Republican.

To solidify their dominance of South African politics, the Afrikaners united to form the South African Party, a new pan-South African Afrikaner party.

The 1997 election also saw the return of the Progressive Conservative Party to official party status following their electoral dominance of the conservative vote in eastern Canada.

A famous confrontation was the 1952 Senate election in Massachusetts where Irish Catholic John F. Kennedy defeated WASP Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. By the 1980s, the liberal Rockefeller Republican wing of the party was marginalized, with the dominance of the Southern and Western conservative Republicans.

Relations between Oliver and Rutherford had always been chilly — Oliver was implacably opposed to Cross, who he viewed as a rival for dominance of the Liberal party in Alberta, and his Edmonton Bulletin had taken the side of the dissidents during the railway scandal.

From its roots as a radical alternative to the political establishment, the party grew to its current dominance through several eras:

This was the situation in Canada in the 2004, 2006, and 2008 federal elections, with no party obtaining a majority due in part to the dominance of the Bloc Québécois in the province of Quebec.

Social Credit was never able to form a provincial government in Quebec due to the near dominance of social conservative votes by the Union Nationale party from the 1930s into the 1960s.

He stated that he had reservations about the perceived dominance of former members of the more socially conservative Canadian Alliance in the new party.