Sentences with phrase «in polemical»

It had an anonymous and authoritative voiceover, rather than the onscreen presenter you would expect to see in a polemical film.

Mary Reid Kelley (b. 1979, Greenville, South Carolina, USA) combines painting, performance, and a distinctive wordplay - rich poetry in her polemical, graphically stylised videos.

The selection also affirms the artists» dedication to abstraction in a polemical decade broadly characterized by identity politics.

Turning its back on illusionism and allegory, this kind of art attempts to define its own universe of meanings, and in the polemical act of purifying itself from extraneously derived languages and imageries, aspires to ineffability.»

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.»

Cinema's prolific writer / director Michael Winterbottom and comedian / provocateur Russell Brand join forces in this polemical expose about inequality and the financial crisis.

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.

Resentment and anger, always lying only half dormant, ready to be roused in many people, found a perfect symbol and stimulant in the anger and furious resentment which Luther expressed in his polemical works.

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.

When Luther was in a polemical mood in later years, he would say that the city was «a bawdy house and a beer house».

Fishbane, Biblical Interpretation, 322 - 26, has shown how Second Isaiah is a reinterpretation of Genesis 1 for quite specific purposes in a polemical situation.

Especially clarifying and impressive is the way Paul, caught in a polemical situation, again and again appeals to this tradition.

But Nietzsche easily outdoes him here, especially in his polemical essay Human, All Too Human, where he roundly declares all art false to the core:

Though the Puritans believed in the primacy of Scripture, they were not narrow biblicists and drew widely on early Christian writings in polemical, homiletical, and exegetical works.

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

In that polemical film, based on the book he wrote of the same title, Navarro argues in racially tinged language that China is bent on global domination and is a threat to the US akin to the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Not exact matches

When told by Business Insider that the show may satirize him, Infowars editor and polemical culture wars vlogger Paul Joseph Watson said «the fact that they have to resort to satirizing me in a comedy show proves that they're struggling to combat me with actual logical arguments.

This work helped Protestant and Catholic scholars break out of tired, polemical post-Reformation patterns of interpretation (which were greatly reinforced by earlier, supposedly «scientific» Protestant historical critics in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries).

Polemical parallelism seems the most instructive way of characterizing the role of ideas about the Roman emperor in the development of Christology.

For some years now, a raft of distinguished scholars (Heiko Oberman, David Yeago in this journal, Bruce Marshall, Christine Helmer, and Paul Hinlicky) have been showing how Catholic the real Luther was» contrary to the portrait of Luther used for polemical purposes by too many evangelicals and even Lutherans.

Jesus in an Age of Controversy By Douglas Groothuis Harvest House, 374 pages, $ 9.99 An evangelistic and somewhat polemical response to the «Jesus Seminar» and other high jinks in biblical studies.

Logic is probably beside the point, however, in dealing with this charge, because it is mainly a polemical device.

This polemical analysis was in Latin because Dante knew that to beat those who exalted Latin, and scorned all who wrote in the «vulgar» Italian, he had to join them — at least when composing a work on such a subject.

In their reaction against liberalism, they may move from Wesley's irenic approach to difference to a more polemical one.

In short, while Wesley's approach is irenic, the contemporary evangelical approach is polemical.

This is according to the «religionsgeschichtliche (History of religions) hypothesis», which presupposes that it was an intentional polemical fourth - century Christian replacements for popular Greco - Roman feasts in the ancient world.

To speak of «postmodernity» in Latin America is admittedly rather polemical.

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.

Nonetheless, he feels that the polemical stance taken by the Church Fathers against other religions is not strictly necessary «in our own day».

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.

This call for change would be more persuasive if Mintz had not just spent an entire chapter insisting that recent accounts of a crisis in child well - being are nothing but a matter of moral panic and polemical distortion.

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

In the manuscript «Realism and Idealism,» Collingwood states in a no less polemical way that the term «realism» may be retained with regard to the theory of perception, on the condition that it is qualified in Whitehead's waIn the manuscript «Realism and Idealism,» Collingwood states in a no less polemical way that the term «realism» may be retained with regard to the theory of perception, on the condition that it is qualified in Whitehead's wain a no less polemical way that the term «realism» may be retained with regard to the theory of perception, on the condition that it is qualified in Whitehead's wain Whitehead's way:

In other words, Placuit Deo discounts Francis's polemical concept of Neo-Pelagianism and substitutes something closer to the actual meaning of the term.

In his more recent efforts, Remnick has deployed his talents in bashing the Pope and celebrating Elaine Pagel's polemical outbursts against Christian hangups about good and eviIn his more recent efforts, Remnick has deployed his talents in bashing the Pope and celebrating Elaine Pagel's polemical outbursts against Christian hangups about good and eviin bashing the Pope and celebrating Elaine Pagel's polemical outbursts against Christian hangups about good and evil.

Even in the area of his greatest contribution, the doctrine of man, he was too polemical to be confined to the formal structures of theology.

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.»

Looking at how things go in American politics and what seems to be happening in the American church to what degree is that representative of mature debate with love and grace and to what extent playground behaviour and polemical adversity?

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.

But there are some areas of the academy, and of the cultural life of the English - speaking world in general, where these obvious truths about the essentially polemical nature of the intellectual life are called into question, even systematically rejected.

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.

I have suggested, first, that polemical argument and confrontation are integral and essential to the intellectual life, and that any attempt systematically to remove them from that life is dangerous and, in the end, incoherent.

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 GoIn 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 Goin 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:

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.

While the purpose was to keep the focus on the pedagogical and avoid the polemical, those intimately involved in the production of the Catechism, most notably Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, have throughout their lives been intensely engaged in the questions raised by the Reformation.

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 treatmenIn 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 treatmenin 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.

Unfortunately Johnson reads the peculiarities of Matthew's genealogy in the light of a polemical setting of Jewish slander rather than the evangelist's design of numerical schemes, which are eschatologically oriented.