Sentences with phrase «not polemical»

I remember bring impressed at how open he was to the work, not polemical or defensive.

Much of the art is political, but not polemical.

This is not the polemical drug - war drama you're looking for.

There's not a polemical bone in his body.

Although the statement was not polemical in tone, it had a caustic quality and clearly suggested that under the circumstances Küng should not remain on the Catholic faculty.

Not exact matches

The book's most irritating flaw is the author's relentlessly polite Episcopalian - scholarly prose: readable and informative, but not the penetrating or polemical critical analysis for which this topic calls.

Part of this is because we are organized around a set of values and not a series of polemical statements.

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?

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.

The reviewer explains that Neuhaus is very polemical and resists «dialogue» with those who do not agree with him on everything.

I do hope that these remarks are not unduly polemical.

I want to claim the tradition for our side, if that's not too polemical a way of speaking.

Well, it's a slightly polemical remark, directed at those Christians who think Christianity is simply a matter of the community of faith telling its own story, and who don't even want to discuss issues of the historical Jesus because they think the Bible and the tradition have told us all we need to know.

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.

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.

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

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.

Has not this slogan become a challenge to polemical battle?

We can not avoid the fact that Christian faith is inherently polemical.

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.

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

The polemical and divisive pedagogy of MTS is not easily transferable to local congregations.

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.

I know what he meant; but it does not avoid the polemical problem, merely moves it around.

Smith says that this reticence isn't limited to the Olympics, and says there is a lack of equipping for polemical engagement with Muslims.

Another idea that contributed to Berkouwer's shift in ecumenical stance was the principle that we should not make judgments about Catholic councils like Trent and Vatican I without understanding the integral totality of Catholicism, because these statements were polemical and antithetical and in that sense historically conditioned.

Hartshorne does not allow this polemical evidence to be discounted.

The casual reader of the introduction to The Five Gospels might suppose that no serious New Testament scholar would differ materially from the consensus represented by this book, were it not for the single telltale polemical reference to anonymous «elitist academic critics who deplored the public face of the seminar.»

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.

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

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.»

True, the polemical nature of his writings may not have always helped his case.

It is hard to raise sufficient polemical steam over what many may consider a nice distinction, but Peter J. Leithart's «For Useless Learning» (November 2000) embodies such a peculiarly evangelical (i.e., skewed) approach to the arts and learning that I could not let it pass without comment.

While we don't have a culture of right - wing shock jocks in Britain, right - wing polemical books do sell well.

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.

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.

The film doesn't assume a polemical position regarding the death penalty — either for or against — though in the context of Singaporean authoritarianism it probably would have been banned, with writer - director Boo Junfeng imprisoned, had it taken an explicitly abolitionist stance.

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.

For all of Soderbergh's conceptual refinement and polemical subtlety buried within his most mainstream features, sometime you can't just help love the song.

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.

Reviewing a few selected, representative pieces, I will trace the evolution of their thinking since the 1980s, although there is relatively little observable change, given not only the constant polemical tone that has remained at the core of their work but also the similar language that appears throughout the corpus of that work; they unabashedly acknowledge their frequent borrowing, almost verbatim, from previously published essays.

We don't read / listen to / watch Richard III for its (admittedly polemical and objectively inaccurate) data on the pre-Tudor succession.

Counter-arguments and essay evidence need to be acknowledged so that the paper writer does not appear overly simplistic or polemical.

The result is a show that isn't reductively «racial» but includes race on a spectrum of meanings that runs from polemical to personal and poetic.

Kass's artistic inventiveness is equal to her polemical insights: which is to say, not much.

Guests tried to enjoy the outdoor party after the polemical address, but it wouldn't be so easy.

But I have seen dozens of polemical statements like yours — that Kyoto makes only 0.001 ºC of difference by then etc. — written by people who do not want to take responsibility for the future consequences of their actions.

The trailer (above) is overheated and polemical, mashing up risks from climate change driven by accumulating greenhouse gases with the deep and inherent climate and coastal vulnerability from New Orleans to sub-Saharan Africa (vulnerability that is mainly created by poverty, a lack of governing capacity, poor planning and / or population growth, not by changing environmental risks).