Sentences with phrase «more polemical»

Barbara H. Rossing's book is more polemical.

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

Not exact matches

Therefore, I felt obliged to ponder these criticisms with particular care, even if their polemical form made that more difficult than necessary.

A more serious obstacle Chesterton's cause will have to overcome is his polemical writings about non-Catholics.

Bacevich's application of the Beard / Williams thesis to events since 1989 is less polemical and more open to nuance than the original, but it does not disagree on the essentials.

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.

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 evil.

Abraham is better on the Reformers because of his awareness that their actual theological practice is often superior to their sola scriptura polemical excesses, but even here he at times sounds more like a prosecuting attorney than a well - informed and fair - minded scholar.

More important than these initially direct and rather emotional impressions of other religions is the insight into the falsity of numerous polemical judgments of past times.

My early polemical attitude toward the Catholic Church had been modified when, in the days of the New Deal social revolution, the Catholic Church revealed that it was much more aware of the social substance of human nature, and of the discriminate standards of justice needed in the collective relations of a technical culture, than was our individualistic Protestantism.

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.

Robert Law says: «There is no NT writing which is more vigorously polemical in its whole tone and aim.

They help it resonate with our current moment — but make it even more bluntly polemical.

It takes up and expands on the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but approached from a more critical, polemical direction.In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche attacks past philosophers for their alleged lack of critical sense and their blind acceptance of Christian premises in their consideration of morality.

These last, well - worn references to «cosmic connectedness» are yet more material for Luna's polemical recycling.

4 Films like John Akomfrah's Handsworth Songs (Black Audio Film Collective, 1986) and Maureen Blackwood and Isaac Julien's The Passion of Remembrance (Sankofa Film and Video Collective, 1986) positioned themselves at «the center of polemical debates in the mainstream and Black popular press that often do little more than bespeak critical assumptions about which filmic strategies are «appropriate» for Blacks.»

While some artists eschewed the language of abstraction for more popular or polemical forms, Whitten's engagement with the surfaces of his compositions grew more nuanced.

This is the complete, authorized collection of Donald Judd's early art criticism and polemical writings; it includes his landmark essay «Specific Objects» plus more than 500 contemporary art reviews he wrote on key artists and exhibitions of the 1960s.

He participates in a dynamic, polemical, historically self - conscious resuscitation of representational painting currently occurring throughout the United States, and nowhere more than in southern California, where Williams currently lives and works.

The display includes polemical and campaigning literature, but also his more personal poetry and prose, much of which is profoundly autobiographical in nature.

Hurvin Anderson - the other beneficiary of the lifting of the age limit - is also interested in depicting the meeting point between black and white culture, although his large - scale paintings of landscapes, portraits and still lives, are less polemical and more painterly than Himid's.

Primary Views considers the role of the artist as curator, encouraging new readings of the collection, and more partial, polemical and aberrant artistic historiographies.

In this sense, the racially tinged titles of Bradford's paintings — including Them Big Old Titties — seem more propositional than polemical in their oblique allusions to the complex mesh of ethnic, racial and gender desires and tensions that course through the neighborhoods and communities from which Bradford sourced his scavenged materials.

Of course, polemical letters are more fun.

But you seem more interested in polemically attacking others for being polemical than in following your own advice.

To the second part of RP's question: I feel that a book with an advocacy and polemical role has to take especial care with facts and inferences, and more clearly delineate where the author is being imaginative.

I feel that a book with an advocacy and polemical role has to take especial care with facts and inferences, and more clearly delineate where the author is being imaginative.

The Committee's observations are little more than a polemical attack on the Government's Indigenous policies.