Sentences with phrase «polemic against the religions»

He describes being filmed debating with Dawkins as part of his Channel 4 polemic against religion «The Root of All Evil?»

I also got somewhat upset when he rejected out of hand the idea that Moses was writing a polemic against the religions of his day.

His later dogmatic writings stifled the rhetorical dialectics and the polemic against religion that gave his earlier «crisis theology» its immense spiritual power.

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It is well - reasoned and provides excellent arguments to use against all the standard polemics of those who want to drive religion down your throat.

Although winsomely expressed, Consulting the Faithful is a polemic against intellectuals (theologians in particular) who exhibit a practiced disdain for the «tackiness» of popular religion.

It contains a subtle polemic against the astral deities whose worship was at the heart of Babylonian religion.

Because the same media managers were at war with the fundamentalism of the religious right in this country, the reporting and commentary tended to become a running polemic against undifferentiated «religious fanaticism» that threatened the secular assumptions of Western elites who had been miseducated to believe that religion is a vestigial phenomenon from the unenlightened past.

This episode continues with the central theme of Genesis 1 being a polemic against the surrounding religions in the days of Moses.

In the previous episode, we really only saw that Moses was in fact writing a polemic against the gods of these other religions and cultures.

- This episode continues with the central theme of Genesis 1 being a polemic against the surrounding religions in the days of Moses.

In twentieth century theology, that running polemic that pits Christ against religion is most closely associated with Barth.