Sentences with phrase «not abjured»

It would not abjure ambiguity or fear irreverence or humor.

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The philosopher does not start from a faith in being's intelligible disclosure of itself — in fact, he starts by explicitly abjuring such faith — but rather vests his trust in the power of the self to posit reality from its own unshakeable position.

This is much to be regretted, not for any reasons of personal ambition, which I abjure completely, but because in the cause of postpartisanship (if not postmodernism) I believe a participant from the Culture 11 group (may it rest in peace) would add immeasurably to the depth of the dialogue going on within the administration, mixing it up with the likes of Susan Rice and Samantha Power (reminding them there was a free election in Iraq on Saturday), or with Lawrence Summers (recalling to him, since he failed so conspicuously in stimulating the women at Harvard, how one might do better with the economy).

Christ's perfect union of divinity and humanity is the central mystery of the Incarnation, and, as de Lubac pointed out a generation ago, the abjuring of this paradox marked the heretics of the early Church, not her faithful adherents: the Adoptionists and Docetists were the ones who refused to live with the ultimate inscrutability of the God - Man.

He was abjured not to come with a written statement but be ready, at the same time tomorrow, to answer verbally.

In Rabbi Johanan's exegesis (Megillah 13a), Mordecai is so insistently called a Jew «because he abjured paganism [«avodah zarah], for everyone who abjures paganism is called a Jew; as is written (Daniel 3:12): `... Jews... serve not thy gods nor worship the golden image which thou has set up.

Finally I do not want to abjure for fear of making myself a perjurer.

In other words, they go it alone, abjure government, and do things it can't or won't do, even when that may mean «privileging the views of elites.»