Sentences with phrase «repugnances of»

As is evident from Prof. Levenson's full (rather than selectively edited) comments, he was referring to the instinctive repugnances of the past, which, at least in the United States, have, over the past few decades, been significantly overcome.

I truly believe that at the root of our repugnance of the physical church is a repugnance of all things physical.

Or you could just listen to Brook's view of the world and recoil in horror at the moral repugnance of the man.

Instead of executives talking about how domestic violence is a hot topic, the future might be filled with executives talking about the repugnance of employing people accused of unspeakable crimes.

Rhee's outsider status helped her enact reforms against these nonsensical circumstances and brave the repugnance of the Washington Teachers» Union, Washington Post columnists, and city council members.

Frankenstein, of course, is the name of the man who creates the monster, and the book is really about him: a gifted but sheltered scientist who lacked the ability to sense the repugnance of creating life just to see if it could be done.

He particularly targeted the sanctimonious and those who declined to own up to (what he deemed) the moral repugnance of their acts.

He has earned the repugnance of a national industry, close to one hundred thousand hard working Realtors plus their families.

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Suffice it to say that implicit in the novel's conclusion is the understanding of confession articulated in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which declares that «Interior repentance is a radical reorientation of our whole life, a conversion to God with all our heart, an end of sin, a turning away from evil, with repugnance toward the evil actions we have committed.»

The repugnance to racial intermarriage in a race - conscious society is a consequence of existing social divisions, which impose severe penalties upon persons who fail to respect them.

These maxims can be summarised as (1) never to assume any external work without some positive manifestation of God's will (the principle of passivity), and (2) at any clear sign from God, to undertake immediately the work he wills, putting aside any personal preference or repugnance (the principle of indifference).

Woodfinden highlights two tenets of modern culture: a moral repugnance for Christianity and a love for human rights.

For reasons such as the latter even Simpson, in 1911, declared that continuing insistence for the traditional materialistic view of resurrection «accounts for much repugnance to the Christian truth».21

It is the leitmotif of his whole article, including his repugnance for the very idea of Dabru Emet as proposed by Jews.

In his article ««Instinctive Repugnance,»» David Novak seizes upon and distorts a single phrase, taken out of context, from Professor Jon D. Levenson's extensive and thoughtful critique of the interfaith document «Dabru Emet (Speak the Truth): A Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity,» in order to launch an ad hominem assault on Prof. Levenson's integrity, his attitude to Christianity, and his suitability to be a professor at Harvard's Divinity School.

I was surprised and dismayed at Professor David Novak's misrepresentation of Prof. Jon D. Levenson's reference to the «instinctive repugnance» between the Jewish and the Christian communities in Prof. Levenson's penetrating and incisive critique of the Dabru Emet document.

On top of that is the more universal repugnance heterosexuals tend to feel for acts and orientations foreign to them.

Responding to the Gosnell case, Kass has argued for seeing the wisdom in the very sensation of repugnance that we feel towards such activities.

David Novak wonders how a Jew like me can teach at a Christian divinity school in light of my «opposition to the dialogue» of the two communities and my belief that their «relationship necessarily involves mutual repugnance» (««Instinctive Repugnance,»&rarepugnance» (««Instinctive Repugnance,»&raRepugnance,»» May).

Nonetheless, since he objects to even our assertion of the partial commonality between Judaism and Christianity, how could that «instinctive repugnance» possibly be «overcome»?

It «carries an atavistic weight of repugnance, fascination and fear.»

Since Judaism and Christianity clearly have much historical overlapping, and since Prof. Levenson sees that overlapping to be so negative, what else is left except a continuation of that «instinctive repugnance»?

But if, when you give up your cell, or yield possession of this or that object or exchange it for another, you feel repugnance and are not like a statue, that shows that you view these things as if they were your private property.»

I share Father Berrigan's repugnance toward those in high intellectual and religious places who apologize for or ignore gross historical evil, and I have insisted that Auschwitz bears a commandment to Jews also not to destroy their fellow human beings, that the necessity for Jewish survival, illuminated and commanded by the Holocaust, can not justify the principle that it is better to do than to suffer injustice — that this goes completely counter to the spirit and teaching of the Jewish religio - ethical tradition.

This is probably not the place to mention the passing of her friend from years ago Cilla Black but the repugnance, and vile response by so called Liverpudlians at her demise makes us both sick.

It might sound like a ridiculous issue but the sheer repugnance or lack of option to moving the event from a summer to the winter smells just as foul as FIFA's bank statements.

The common denominator is some kind of negative emotion, but the culture and time will determine which negative emotion is commonly provoked, whether it's disgust at bodily secretions, or dread of deities, or repugnance at sexual perversions.

The physician Leon Kass, who was chairman of George W. Bush's bioethics council from 2001 to 2005, has made the case for the «wisdom of repugnance».

«Repugnance is the emotional expression of deep wisdom, beyond reason's power to fully articulate it,» he wrote in his 2002 book Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity.

If you accept that our moral codes reflect to a fair degree the depth of our knowledge of contemporary issues at any one time, then just as our view of homosexuality morphed from repugnance to acceptance in under a century, so the multiple ways in which we can meddle with the body are likely to become the norm in the near future.

A great many people still feel an «instinctive repugnance» towards homosexual intercourse but the rights of individuals who form minority groups or who have special needs can not be decided by the simple preferences of the majority.

The HFEA report had the same reason for opposing the use of fetuses, albeit in less emotive language: «The public... may feel an instinctive repugnance to the use of ovarian tissue from these sources for research or fertility treatment.»

He loses his intellectual block and chooses an existential act which despite its repugnance to society does a world of good for the college teacher.

It's the embedded problem of what Hitchcock observed as a character we like because he does his job well: what if that job is essentially reprehensible and, moreover, what if the ultimate desire of the film is that we experience righteous repugnance?

I hated myself a lot back then, but even the unbearable sense of self - loathing I felt back then was nothing compared to my utmost repugnance for Entourage, the film - adaptation of the popular HBO series created by Doug Ellin, which debuted back in 2004.

Dogs love the flavor of this food very much and get the extra benefit that has a repugnance to chicken.