For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare [are] not fleshly but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. And they will be ready to punish all disobedience, when your obedience...

The author conducted a partial replication of Stanley Milgram’s (1963, 1965, 1974) obedience studies that allowed for useful comparisons with the original investigations while protecting the well-being of participants. Seventy adults participated in a replication of Milgram’s Experiment 5 up to the point at which they first heard the learner’s verbal protest (150 volts). Because 79% of Milgram’...

As an examiner for colleges participating in the Australian College of Theology I set a question asking students to explain the importance of the distinction between the active and passive obedience of Christ. To my surprise of the eighty or so students who sat the exam only one tried to answer the question, and he or she had misunderstood it completely. Why would this be the case among student...

One of the most prevalent problems with regard to protecting information assets is the behaviour of employees. Moreover, the behaviour of employees is, to a large extent, determined by the corporate culture of an organisation. Senior management, as part of its corporate governance responsibilities, must define a vision for information security in its organisation. An ideal corporate culture, in...

We present an analysis for modelling social norms. In social psychology three different normative behaviours have been identified: obedience, conformity and compliance. We show that this triad is a useful conceptualisation of normative behaviour and that current models only ever deal with conformity and obedience two, neglecting compliance. We argue that this is a result from modelling having s...

Algorithms are not to be regarded as a technical structure but social phenomenon - they embed themselves, currently still very subtle, into our political and system. shape human behavior on various levels: influence only the aesthetic reception of world also well-being interaction their users. They act intervene in context. As algorithms individual these situations, power should subject critica...

The concept and activity of obedience can be regarded as fundamental to human existence well Christian religion. focus this study was investigate the occurrence in Gospel John. Of two well-known Greek nouns ὑπακοή ἀπειθέω (translated ‘obedience’), related verbs ὑπακούω ‘obedient’), only occurs once (3:36) verb τηρέω has been used several times not consistently translated because diverse literar...