Sentence examples for chosenness from inspiring English sources

The most important scholarship on the concept of "chosenness" was Michael Wyschogrod's The Body of Faith (1983) and David Novak's The Election of Israel (1995).

Angela Chase — with her oversized flannel shirts and striking (dyed) red hair, her precocious sensitivity, her kittenish restraint punctured by bursts of impulsivity, her improbable chosenness as Jordan Catalano's love object — is a character who is difficult to forget because she presses on a wounded teen-age spot that hasn't healed over in most of us.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Angela Chase — with her oversized flannel shirts and striking (dyed) red hair, her precocious sensitivity, her kittenish restraint punctured by bursts of impulsivity, her improbable chosenness as Jordan Catalano's love object — is a character who is difficult to forget because she presses on a wounded teen-age spot that hasn't healed over in most of us.

The burden of chosenness weighs on Harry as well; it is easier for him to accept being singled out for death by Lord Voldemort than to countenance the willingness of his allies and protectors to sacrifice their lives for him.

This is, of course, the foundational ambiguity of Judaism and Jewish identity: the idea of chosenness, of exceptionalism, of the treasure that is a curse, the blessing that is a burden, of the setting apart that may presage redemption or extermination.

He seems to repeat a popular conflating of Jewish "chosenness" with Jewish exceptionalism.

The answers rest in the eternal dual longings of the Jewish people: the longing, on the one hand, for distinction, separateness and "chosenness," and on the other for acceptance and belonging.

They co-opted the "chosenness" of religious Jews -- the idea that God had selected his people to serve as a "light unto nations" by giving them the Torah -- and recast it, saying that they would serve as a model of an enlightened, collectivist society.

"How scary is it, in a culture of chosenness, to be the anointed king who's rejected?" Professor Sharon said.

The use of the phrase "chosen people" in a pejorative way has occurred in the Guardian before, and three years ago I wrote: "'Chosenness', in Jewish theology, tends to refer to the sense in which Jews are 'burdened' by religious responsibilities; it has never meant that the Jews are better than anyone else.