Sentences with phrase «pseudo-individualistic abdication»

«You must believe me when I tell you that I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love,» Edward VIII explained in his abdication speech in 1936.

From his self - imposed exile, he sent out letters announcing the possibility of his abdication, according to «Ivan the Terrible» by Robert Payne and Nikita Romanoff.

In effect, this is an abdication of personal responsibility.

They have prioritized price and are «happy» with that price if it is lowest enough to justify the abdication of other services.

A polemicist might well have salty things to say about this abdication of moral principles that Christians have held since the earliest days of the faith, but in Wilcox's mild and irenic diction the mainline churches are simply «accommodationist,» espousing what he calls a «Golden Rule Christianity» that honors tolerance, kindness, and social justice as paramount virtues.

Then again, being a Christian requires abdication of reason.

This motivation is evidenced in the frequent abdication of any personal moral responsibility to critically evaluate your alleged deity's behaviors.

In the last six years of John Paul's life» as his physical condition deteriorated, and some called for his abdication, insisting that he was no longer capable of managing the bureaucracy of the Church» the mystery of the interconnection of love and suffering was dramatically realized on the world stage.

Thisis what I called the «abdication of reason» in my New York Times article of July 7th, 2005.»

Many will find Last Testament interesting for its primary author's reflections on his unprecedented abdication.

But here, too, there is little that is actually new, although there is detail that confirms what shrewder observers of Vatican life pieced together after the events of early 2013: that Benedict XVI's poorly - planned 2012 visit to Mexico and Cuba convinced him that he could no longer travel; that he believed the Pope must be present at World Youth Day 2013 in Brazil, a conviction that became the terminus ad quem driving the timing of the abdication and what immediately preceded it; and that, contrary to speculations that have become more lurid over time, Benedict's concern about his increasingly frailty, which fuelled his concern that he would be increasingly unable to give the Church what she deserved from a pope, was the sole motive behind his decision to renounce the Oice of Peter — not Vatileaks, not concerns about financial and other corruptions inside the Leonine Wall, not blackmail.

Who was involved in, and what was the thinking behind, the decision to compound the historically unprecedented nature of his abdication with the equally unprecedented — indeed, unimagined — title of «Pope Emeritus», and the distinctive, quasi-papal vesture Benedict adopted in his retirement?

Her flight to the commune is thus an abdication of responsibility.

I insist that racism is our heritage, that Thomas Jefferson's genius is no more important than his plundering of the body of Sally Hemmings, that George Washington's abdication is no more significant than his wild pursuit of Oney Judge, that the G.I Bill's accolades are somehow inseparable from its racist heritage.

We all like to slum it, sometimes, but to get too enthusiastic about pop culture materials or, worse, to take them seriously as objects of aesthetic judgment — well, that was an abdication of the critic's responsibilities, not to mention a sign of vulgar taste.

Professor MacCulloch was, indeed, soon to be observed putting himself about in the liberal media; and in an article in The Times he began an unusually spiteful piece by laboriously comparing the Church, in the wake of Pope Benedict's abdication, to the sandcastles he used to build as a boy at Clacton: «Quite suddenly there came a point where the waters» onrush became irresistible.

Relational power does not mean the abdication of self - interest.

Lastly, I would again offer that these forms of apologetic responses to the depictions of genocide in the bible are little more than a Nuremberg Defense, i.e. the abdication of personal moral responsibility to evaluate a particular command in obedient deference to perceived authority.

They, soon reinforced, we may hope, by a more clear - eyed U.S. policy, may succeed in recalling the United Nations to its former and more modest self — a necessary, if frequently irritating, instrument of sovereign states in search of cooperation without abdication.

In the name of racial loyalty, and in an effort to keep alive the sense of oppression that fueled the revolts of our youth, we have engaged in an almost criminal abdication of responsibility.

As for Abdication of responsibility, that is what the entire Jesus thing is all about.

In encourages judgmentalism, marginalization, and an abdication of responsibility.

The irony of his choice consists in his dedication to high ideals, subscription to which resulted in a practical abdication of his position that slavery was a moral and political evil and that secession was no constructive solution to the nation's ills.

Hawaiiguest, Let's see judgmentalism, marginaliztion, and abdication of responsibility, judge yourself, live separated from the world, and depend on God.

Even the modern concepts of teleological development and organic growth are at base possession by process — «the abdication of man before the exuberant world of It.»

This abdication makes impossible a life in the spirit since spirit is a response of man to his Thou.

Johnson also touches on a wide range of other issues, from the absurdity of postmodern science to the appeal of Eastern Christianity to the abdication of revealed truth in American universities.

It would mean abdication.

His contemplation of the «ontico - ontological difference» is conducted from so absolute a posture of metaphysical surrender, and is so successful in its abdication of all enduring metaphysical principles and postulates, that it turns out to be capable of accommodating everything.

Their abdication has left us prey to the demagogues and oddballs of the left and right.

It seems to involve at every moment almost a sort of divine abdication.

He also quoted a statement to the effect that the refusal to ask questions about a transcendent source of finality in nature amounts to an abdication of intelligence.

In short, the Nature we know from modern science embodies and reflects immaterial properties and a depth of intelligibility... To view all these extremely complex, elegant and intelligible laws, entities, properties and relations in the evolution of the universe as «brute facts» in need of no further explanation is, in the words of the great John Paul II, an «abdication of human intelligence».»

To compel others to do the same is the essence of tyranny, the abdication of legitimate authority, as the Chief Justice himself states in his dissent: that is the nature of it.

As we approach the fifth anniversary of Benedict XVI's abdication and Francis's election, we face a strange situation in reflecting on the Church's trajectory: We must consider the actions of two men, both of whom are still alive.

Meanwhile, the vacuum left by the traditional church - related colleges» abdication of the «distinctively Christian» role has been filled by the increasingly popular «Christian» colleges, represented in part by the Christian College Coalition.

As configured on February 28 (when Benedict XVI's abdication took effect), the College was a somewhat strange electorate, albeit one that produced a striking result.

George Weigel suggests reforming the College of Cardinals: As configured on February 28 (when Benedict XVI's abdication took effect), the College was a somewhat strange electorate, albeit one that produced a striking result.

If «politics» is understood in this broad sense, then the church and theologians can not afford to stand above politics in the situations they find themselves, for to do so would be an abdication of their responsibility.

Is a fully developed contextualization the opportunity to hear Scripture speak again with clarity and conviction, or is it the abdication of a commitment to biblical authority?

The country has a history of protecting the State and its elites and it's grevious that power has been grasped at the cost of the abdication of the protection and care of its citizenry.

This «balance» is not only an abdication of moral responsibility; it is badly undercutting other Vatican goals in world politics.

He does not confirm him in his abdication and withdrawal.

The oldest of them, Cardinal Husar of Ukraine, will turn 80 on February 26, and thus become ineligible before the abdication of the Holy Father becomes effective.

And using the «word of God» as a way to justify evil behavior is just abdication of personal responsibility.

Any opinion that replaces reason, logic, search for truth, and tolerance with dogma, absolutism, ignorance, denial, abdication of responsibility, and self - forgiveness is absolutely NOT beneficial to humanity.

At the end of the book he is looking for other institutions that might fill the moral vacuum left by the abdication of the bishops.

Again, debates about freewill and predestination continue in each century, whether the adversary of freedom is alleged, (all too often in abdication of personal responsibility!)

This abdication is called faith.

He tells us about Humbert of the White Hands, a count who in 1034 founded the noble House of Savoie, which lasted more than 900 years, until the abdication of King Umberto II of Italy in 1946.