Sentences with phrase «as polemical»

«Niebuhr does not use the conversionist or transformationist type as a polemical tool against the others.

A third method might be described as polemical or partisan» according to the new epistemology, this is indeed the only form of scholarship, though it may be disguised in various ways.

Not exact matches

A central work in the canon of popular atheism, it was a masterclass in polemical writing, cementing his self - description as an «anti-theist».

One might characterize New Atheism as a largely polemical movement that attacks a particular type of Christianity — the religious and political practices of the «far right» — and conflates the part with the whole of Christendom.

If God gave up his Godhead, considering it as something not to be grasped, but humbled himself and emptied himself and became a man, why are we so unwilling to give up our rights, our privileged positions, our thrones of intellectual certainty and polemical assertiveness?

3) However, I believe that the relationship is neither analogical - sequential nor genealogical but can be best described as one of polemical parallelism.

Gopnik dismisses Chesterton's claim to be a Zionist by saying that many anti-Semites cynically made the same claim, as a kind of polemical trick.

We see this in the parables of Jesus as well as in His actions and polemical teachings in the Gospels.

But if we look at what the Reformation tried to do in fact, and not merely at its partly polemical images, it becomes perfectly possible to construct an image of the minister as teacher — which the Reformation should have made explicit.

To be sure, this is a polemical assertion — a catchphrase, really — and it's woefully inadequate as far as precise definitions go.

There are profound issues at stake, such as the ones raised in Martin Buber's polemical book Two Types of Faith.

The more polemical side of the Calvinist heritage has also played a big part in criticism of irenic initiatives such as the declaration «Evangelicals and Catholics Together.»

In this context Lewis was known as a sturdy and polemical defender of the faith.

That is, if one's interlocutor is being threatened with violence, torture, or death at the same time as he is being confronted with a polemical argument, and if the outcome of the latter determines whether he is killed, tortured, forcibly converted, or whatever (this was, of course, the case for many Jews in medieval Europe), then it is exceedingly doubtful that the polemic is morally proper.

Anywhere, in fact, where religion is the central topic, it seems that the polemical dimensions of the intellectual life are swept under the rug, or treated as the kind of embarrassment that reasonable people ought to pretend isn't there.

Catharine MacKinnon, to return to one of the examples mentioned earlier, is extremely unlikely to become a conservative Baptist as a result of apologetical engagement with Billy Graham; and I am rather unlikely to decide that I have no mental life and that disembodied existence is not a possibility for me as a result of polemical engagement with Patricia Churchland.

This learning process goes in the other direction as well: I am likely to learn a great deal about the inner logic and systematic connections among my own religious beliefs by subjecting them to a polemical engagement, things, again, that I could learn in no other way.

In what must surely count as the most polemical passage in the entire book, Besançon even makes bold to claim that iconographers have substituted their art for true religion and even believe that their art comprehends God:

Deniers, as both Lipstadt and Vidal - Naquet show, seem to have an endless supply of polemical tricks and dodges: they simply discount Jewish testimony out of hand as lie or fantasy; inculpatory testimony from the Nazis themselves is said to have been coerced by the triumphant Allies; documents confirming such testimony are said to be forgeries; Nazi statements and memoranda about the Final Solution are taken at face value if they are euphemistically phrased, but are interpreted as hyperbolic or figurative if they are blunt and explicit; photographs and films of executions are dismissed as fakes.

Rich in its historical insight and judicious in most of its interpretation and analysis, the Sanchez volume constitutes an important addition to our scholarly» as opposed to polemical» literature on the role of the papacy during the Holocaust.

This polemical exaggeration was intensified by later writers such as the Church Fathers.

However, I learned a few things as I got older... I do reject my polemical attitude of the past.

In the last analysis they form a unity in tension Hence we shall use them as a guide for our own consideration of the problem, not for any polemical reasons, but because they lay down the best lines for its treatment.

He defends its application to Natural Family Planning (NFP), though three paragraphs later (for other polemical reasons, see below) he strongly denies its application to «Responsible Parenthood» as understood in the Catholic tradition.

Beneath her lament for the lost role of criticism and polemical take on contemporary literary culture (such as it is), Ozick offers something quieter.

Calvin's main goal as a teacher, even at his most polemical, was to build up the piety of the common people who looked to him to lead them into the knowledge of God in scripture.

When in a polemical rather than a romantic mood, Luther later referred to it as a «nest of priests»; they were one in ten of the population.

As one who has been around the polemical track for more than fifty years, I don't take disagreements personally even when I feel that I have been misquoted inadvertently or otherwise.

A. E. Brooke writes: «Although John never loses sight of his opponents, the aim is not primarily polemical; it is edification... The aim is not so much the defeat of the opponents as the building up of a correct attitude in the children to Christian faith and life.»

Fins, the aforesaid Joseph Barton has been employed by the BBC, to act as a puppet for them, to fulfil the criteria of polemical sensationalism.

Milo Yiannopoulos, a polemical Breitbart editor and unapologetic defender of the alt - right, lost both his speaking post at this week's Conservative Political Action Conference and his book deal after publication of a video in which he condones sexual relations with boys as young as 13 and laughs off the seriousness of pedophilia by Roman Catholic priests.

Because communication channels between officials and civilians are blocked in China, in recent years Chinese citizens have increasingly resorted to social media as a means for expressing interest in polemical issues and engaging with sociopolitical mobilization.

Why We Get Fat is still as I say, it's the airplane reading, polemical version of the book.

Funny, exhausting, polemical and poetic, it is a joyous assertion of Gomes» belief that storytelling serves as an escape from reality, and a way to confront and transcend even the most difficult of times.

The polemical political comment in earlier films such as Komsomol, Borinage and New Earth is not comfortably integrated into other aspects of the films, and for viewers today limits these films impact.

New additions to our Great Directors database include Christian Long on Albert Brooks and Steve Rybin on Alan Rudolph, and we also have reviews of recent books on filmmakers as diverse as Jim Jarmusch, Straub / Huillet and Jess Franco, as well as new work on contemporary Eastern European cinema and André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion's recent polemical title

New additions to our Great Directors database include Christian Long on Albert Brooks and Steve Rybin on Alan Rudolph, and we also have reviews of recent books on filmmakers as diverse as Jim Jarmusch, Straub / Huillet and Jess Franco, as well as new work on contemporary Eastern European cinema and André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion's recent polemical title The End of Cinema?.

Never polemical and always respectfully aware that, as Jean Renoir said, everyone has their reasons, Ray draws emotionally vivid portraits of people without resorting to stereotypes, all fumbling toward realizations about themselves and their beliefs.

Reading The Day After Tomorrow as a 9/11 film, in fact, adds another level of polemical discussion in that the film's Vice President Becker (Dick Cheney ringer Kenneth Welsh) emerges as the «I don't believe you» villain endemic to disaster movies and, in this way, at least partly responsible for the number of casualties suffered on behalf of his myopia.

Significantly expanding the claustrophobic geography of most zombie pics, the aptly titled «World War Z» doesn't have a particular polemical axe to grind so much as it seeks to imagine how the world's ideologically disparate peoples and governments would respond if great masses of the populi did suddenly turn into rabid, flesh - eating beasties.

Norwegian director Morten Tyldum's solid English - language debut has been packaged as a tony period drama with an ardent straight - gay non-romance and a polemical edge.

In the indie sphere, the brief flowering of the New Queer Cinema of the early nineties, defined by such oppositional, polemical voices as Todd Haynes and Gregg Araki, identified a new niche audience.

As a healthful supplement I should like to recommend an earlier, polemical view of the major problem that confronts us in education: Albert Lynd's Quackery in the Public Schools, a neglected 1953 book whose title is not yet out of date.

But while Rhee's head - cracking, heresy - spouting attempt to revamp the school system was a major contributor to Fenty's electoral defeat, she left in a blaze of martyrdom, reveling in the extravagant admiration of national opinion - makers, as well as her commanding role in the polemical pro-charter-school documentary Waiting for «Superman.»

Inspired by the presence of Francis Picabia's painting of the same name — Catch As Catch Can, 1913 — the exhibition engages a prying apart and emptying out of stylistic investments, critical prompts, and polemical stances in order that these tactics be revitalized with a restless comic gravitas.

Inspired by the presence of Francis Picabia's painting of the same name — Catch As Catch Can, 1913 — the exhibition engages a prying apart and emptying out of stylistic investments, critical prompts, and polemical stances in order that these tactics be revital - ized with a restless comic gravitas.

Reinhardt's polemical spirit emerged early, but it found its fulfillment only in the 1960s, with his black paintings — just when Motherwell found a new spareness as well.

Pistoletto has always been a polemical artist, and although undemonstrative as an individual he has since the 1960s always been a key social and intellectual organiser in the movement.

Despite having honed an intelligent yet boisterous painting process for the last 40 - plus years, Los Angeles - based art guru Thomas Lawson is just as likely to be known as a) the dean of the prestigious School of Art at the California Institute for the Arts and (b) the talented but polemical art writer who penned the potent 1985 comeuppance of Neo-Expressionism titled «Last Exit: Painting.»

Polemical but symbolic, it combined drawing and painting as well as craft - based techniques like collage and printmaking seldom associated with traditional Western notions of high art and mastery.