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The obsession with greatness leads to power abuse: Is spiritual intelligence an appropriate response?

In die Skriflig

 
 
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Title The obsession with greatness leads to power abuse: Is spiritual intelligence an appropriate response?
 
Creator Cornelius, Elizabeth M.
 
Subject Ancient studies; New Testament; Socio-historical; psychology; sociology Power abuse; Aspiration for superiority; Obsession with greatness; Herod the Great; Spiritual intelligence.
Description Power abuse is the reason for corruption, violence, murder, rape and many other crimes. This article focuses on the reasons for power abuse – the reasons why people morph into beasts. Some say it is a result of an aspiration for superiority. Others say it is an act of a typical personality type, namely the ruling type. I ask the following question in this regard: Is it an obsession with greatness? What is present or absent in a person’s life that makes them obsessed with greatness? Herod the Great is studied as an example of a power abuser in order to determine what brought out the beast in him. The research is done with the help of various disciplines, including history, sociology and psychology in order to answer different questions. It is concluded that an obsession with greatness can be a result of the absence of spiritual intelligence – an absence of religion.
 
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Date 2019-10-14
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Socio-historical' sociological; psychological
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/ids.v53i2.2463
 
Source In die Skriflig/In Luce Verbi; Vol 53, No 2 (2019); 7 pages 2305-0853 1018-6441
 
Language eng
 
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