Sentences with phrase «as scrupulosity»

Not exact matches

When I first read the Confessions I was irritated by what I took to be Augustine's scrupulosity (the redoubtable «pear tree incident,» for example) and outraged at his characterization of sex as slavery.

For example, the new birth may be away from religion into incredulity; or it may be from moral scrupulosity into freedom and license; or it may be produced by the irruption into the individual's life of some new stimulus or passion, such as love, ambition, cupidity, revenge, or patriotic devotion.