Designed abstract sculpture is something of a contradiction; and flat abstract sculpture is
an abnegation of potential.
Christ's concern for individuals enslaved by the products of their sinful condition should be motivation enough for Christians to concern themselves for people today — who are increasingly demonstrating signs of electronic narcosis, with consequent effects of isolation, alienation, fear,
abnegation of responsibility and loss of joy.
electronic narcosis, with consequent effects of isolation, alienation, fear,
abnegation of responsibility, and loss of joy.
Kenosis becomes a matter of God's self -
abnegation of a mode of power that God wills not to utilize.
Does Christ then offer a new order of exchange and sacrifice, or is he simply
the abnegation of human solidarity, a revolutionary outcry that forever interrupts the story of the world but tells no story of its own?
But the church needs its Marthas as much as it does its Marys, and Van Slaag's detachment is
an abnegation of his responsibilities as pastor.
Not exact matches
It sought to elevate the human person to the exclusion
of his body, renouncing it and denying its value through neglect and
abnegation.
The implication is that womanhood, or the soul
of all our humanity, will be redeemed not in self - assertion but in
abnegation and subordination.
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.
We have seen that the liberal state can not really limit itself; its act
of self -
abnegation is the very act by which it refuses integration into an order
of nature or grace that precedes and exceeds it.
It hurts to renounce part
of your own identity, even if you consider the
abnegation a necessity.
While it is true that the exalting
of vulnerability has been used to push women into a demeaning self -
abnegation, there is another kind
of vulnerability, an empowering, Christian vulnerability, which ought not be sacrificed on the cross
of leftist academic fashion.
Feuerbach was too good an interpreter
of religion to overlook the phenomenon
of self -
abnegation, which he read as a subtle form
of self - love.
As long as we cling to our own categories we can not hear the voices
of our tradition that speak about the importance
of poverty and silence, that talk about the benefits
of unjust suffering, that understand self - knowledge in terms
of internal bondage, that depict human struggle in terms
of solitude and self -
abnegation, that speak
of freedom in terms
of self - denial and asceticism, and that perceive wisdom in terms
of detachment and transcendence.
Their strong love
of liberty, and their acquisitiveness, afford a powerful temptation to offer some substitute for self -
abnegation.
What Mark did, apparently, was select out from the body
of Jesus» sayings those which emphasized the prospect
of suffering and persecution in the «last days,» and the requirement
of abnegation and renunciation on the part
of his followers.
It seems impossible for contemporary people to imagine anyone finding true fulfillment in a life
of 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?
’18 It is not only self -
abnegation but also fulfilment which the outgoing love
of agape offers to love as affection, and affection may be the first school
of agape.
[20] The individual Christian ideally should find in the humble service
of the deacon — especially in his role in the celebration
of the Mass — an example
of self -
abnegation and the virtue - filled life.
We should add this point to Kierkegaard's word: «The concept
of the neighbour is precisely the middle term
of self -
abnegation, which enters between the I and I
of selfishness but also between the I and the other I
of earthly love and friendship.
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.
But for John
of the Cross the dark night
of the spirit arrives at the end
of a period
of absolute self -
abnegation.
It censured libertinism and cruelty, and upheld the freedom to practice the good, chastity, virginity, innocence, conjugal fidelity, love
of enemies, charity,
abnegation, goodness toward the weak, and dignity for all human beings, created in the image and likeness
of God.
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.
Self - righteousness, whether
of the flesh or from God, and self -
abnegation are both sides
of the same self - centered coin and therefor signs that our spirituality is still dominated by narcissistic self - absorbtion rather than Christ - centered gratitude and joy.
D'Arcy takes it as a given that there's a protective shield around time - intensive parenting practices to keep anyone from observing out loud that it's antithetical to feminism to demand such high levels
of self -
abnegation from women.
It is not a difficult task to date a rich cougar, but it is required that you come out
of the fences
of self
abnegation and the feelings
of inferiority complex.
The final moment, with the illusionist's self -
abnegation, wreaks
of over-sentimentality, and while I might attempt to identify with it, I do so in only most maudlin way.
A quick Divergent refresher course - in the trilogy
of YA books by Veronica Roth, and in the film franchise based on same, what's left
of society is divided into five factions:
Abnegation (the selfless), Amity (the peaceful), Candor (the honest), Dauntless (the brave), and Erudite (the intelligent).
Matthews is the leader
of Erudite, which means she's got a killer IQ along with those killer heels, and she's convinced that Divergents are a threat to her plan to overthrow
Abnegation.
In case you're unfamiliar with the franchise's basic premise, the post-apocalyptic sci - fi is set amidst the crumbling ruins
of a walled - in Chicago where what's left
of humanity has been strictly divided into five factions based on personality types, namely,
Abnegation (the selfless); Amity (the peaceful); Candor (the honest); Dauntless (the brave); and Erudite (the intelligent).
Beatrice's choice surprises her parents (Tony Goldwyn and Ashley Judd), well - meaning folks who are part
of Abnegation.
There's a seduction / rape in the picture that spools out slippery like a biblical allegory, climaxing with a message
of self -
abnegation written on a bathroom window and a realization by our antihero that he's doomed to learn something from the destruction
of every single thing in his life that's pure,
of everything that comes with the potential for a future.
Their futuristic city - state nestled in the ruins
of Chicago has been torn apart by internal strife, with the «
Abnegation» faction (selfless people — i.e. pushovers) destroyed and the «Dauntless» faction (brave people — i.e. idiots and assholes) fractured.
In order to effectively run its insular society, the government has chosen to divide its citizens into what they naturally do best: the meek who look out for the well - being
of others are in the ruling faction
of Abnegation, the happy / friendly people are in the agricultural community
of Amity, those who speak the truth work within the law as Candor, those who seek adventure and thrills enforce those laws and protect the community as Dauntless, and the highly intelligent folks serve the city as Erudite.
The sequel picks up with the fallout
of the slaughter
of the entire
Abnegation faction.
Dovid is his logical successor, but the entire community seems to know about the incident that led to Ronit's abrupt departure and sent Esti into counseling and a spiritual journey
of self -
abnegation.
Beatrice Prior (Shailene Woodley) is a member
of the selfless
Abnegation faction, but she faces a big decision in the next few days.
I say, send the kids for the vocabulary alone — the six categories are: Candor, Erudite, Amity, Dauntless, and
Abnegation, and
of course Divergent.
It is at its heart self -
abnegation — an indictment
of playing to fandom from a filmmaker who hasn't met a pander he couldn't indulge, whether it be giving Philip K. Dick a happy ending or over-explaining the horrors
of war / slavery / the Holocaust in condescending monologues.
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.
She lies and says that the attack on
Abnegation was the fault
of Divergents and their sympathizers, and she has declared martial law until all
of them have been captured.
Moreover, nowhere do the inherent tensions
of progressivism, between the twin impulses
of self - expression and self -
abnegation, surface more clearly than in the case
of critical pedagogy, which can be viewed as an offshoot
of constructivism, which in turn is an offshoot
of postmodernism.
Han's treatments
of submission and subversion find form in the parable, as the housewife's self -
abnegation turns increasingly severe and surreal.
Abts» spare paint handling and resolute edges reveal a disturbing and provocative core
of self -
abnegation and humility.
They speak
of self -
abnegation but simultaneously
of the assertion
of the artist reengaged with the physical medium, dark though it is.
We're tough around here, and we can take it if someone's talking behind our backs: Hilton Kramer, testy art critic for the New York Observer, came to San Francisco on «other business,» he writes, but managed to stop in at the Museum
of Modern Art, where he glanced at the Gerhard Richter show (which he'd «already suffered through at MoMA in New York») and looked both at the permanent collection (early Matisses «remain, in my opinion, SFMOMA's principal aesthetic asset») and the Ellsworth Kelly exhibition («What could be more personal than the persistent, unvarying project
of self -
abnegation on a monumental scale that we observe in his own most ambitious abstractions?»
These abstract painters had arrived at the unknown somewhat in the spirit
of abnegation, but they conferred on their renunciation
of the past, positive values
of freedom and spontaneity.
HMRC's failure to use a more secure method to transport the information (it was not even sent by means
of registered delivery); its failure to ensure that the information was encrypted (the CDs were only password protected); and its failure to ensure that there were controls in place to prevent a relatively junior official from accessing and copying the entire database seem almost inevitably to point to a complete
abnegation by HMRC
of its obligations under the seventh data protection principle.