Sentences with phrase «abnegation made»

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This is at best misleading: Writing in the cultural context of the liberal West, Soloveitchik often devoted more words to emphasizing the necessity of humility and surrender for a genuine religious life, but he had no more esteem for a purely submissive religious posture than for an exclusively assertive one — a point made clear by his frequent condemnations of mystical self - abnegation.

Especially the theme of God's word and promise, but also those of exodus, redemption, covenant, justice, wisdom, of the Logos made flesh, of the Spirit poured out on the face of creation, of the compassion, paternity and maternity of God, and especially the Trinitarian character of God — all of the indispensable elements in a Christian theology — communicate their depth only when they are united with the theme of divine self - abnegation which, at least to Christian faith, comes to its most explicit expression in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus?

Traditional attitudes toward the natural environment make Indians, like the Japanese, more disposed than Americans to pursue happiness modestly.15 And almost six decades after his assassination, Gandhi's traditionalist emphasis on austerity and self - abnegation remains a powerful part of Indian identity.

I had a student tell me she had rejected her childhood Christian faith because of its emphasis on humility and self - abnegation; she then took up with a Buddhist group whose practice involved making hundreds of prostrations.

It's too smart for its own good, presenting a superhero origin story without allowing any of its characters to ever once even whisper the word (a lot like «The Walking Dead» making everyone look like assholes by avoiding the term «zombie») and spending too much time letting its teen titans drop names like Schopenhauer before making it clear that the character who most embraces the philosopher's theories of aesthetics and self - abnegation ultimately takes up the mantle of one of Schopenhauer's offshoots, Nietzsche.

Let me try to make up for this by recommending a book to put in the Christmas stocking of the administrative lawyer in your life: Law's Abnegation by Adrian Vermeule.