Sentences with phrase «which abjures»

In contrast to liberalism, which abjures common ends, covenant directs political and social activity toward the common good.

It may be noted in passing that Altizer is in some sense the victim and product of the most extreme degree of that very dualism which he abjures so strongly in the name of Hegel.

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).

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The Rortyan vision of heaven on earth, in which people merely tell enlightening tales and abjure the search for truth, sounds like a gathering of tipsy old sea dogs swapping dimly remembered stories of past voyages of discovery.

We would be better able to answer that question if Hasker had told us exactly which views often held by other traditional free will theists he has abjured.

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.

Abjuring the airy we - really - must - get - together - sometime feints common to London, which can carry on indefinitely without threatening to clutter your diary with a real time and place, Jude had seemed driven to nail down a foursome so that her illustrator could meet her husband, Ramsey.