Sentences with phrase «polemic which»

Britain's Europe is a thought - provoking polemic which challenges what can loosely be described as «our Island Story» version of British history advocated, amongst others by Michael Gove.

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If you read the book on which the film is based, you can see that the facts damn Irish clericalism well enough without the added polemics displayed in a made - up speech by a basically fictional bitterly anti-erotic nun.

Bottum opines that we should prepare ourselves for the next chapter in the culture wars, in which the left here will get into step with its European compatriots, espousing a militant skepticism toward science while maintaining their polemic against the religious right, but this time for its uncritical embrace of scientific progress.

Appropriately, Eslick writes: «It is likely the polemic against substance was originally motivated by Whitehead's reaction against mechanistic materialism, in which substances are inert, vacuous pieces of matter or stuff» (SCCW 504).

The great political genius of Federalist polemics in the ratification debate was the manner in which they appropriated this concept to deflect claims to state sovereignty, discount Anti-Federalist charges that they were undemocratic, and render the Constitution an expression of popular will.

These are pseudo-virtues, which you try to shame us into accepting, by directing a polemic against the Church, whose moral force is due simply to its use of certain radical chic cliches that we were all taught to grovel before back in the 1960s.

He is unsurpassed in his ability to dish out broadsides against positions with which he disagrees, and anyone who wants a lesson in the art of godly polemics can go to no better source.

The result: A new historical perspective on the meaning of Paul's polemic against the Judaizers which occupies so much of his recorded correspondence.»

This has resulted in polemics of a high order, in argumentation which is original and subtle.

The second kind of «new source» is found in the Jewish (i.e. Rabbinic) polemics against Jesus, which again can hardly be called a «new source».

I was reminded by one student's paper of the Porchers» ambivalent relationship to Marx, which to some extent flows from their tendency, sometimes, to confuse Marx's polemics with actual fair - and - balanced description.

His spirited polemics are still worthy targets against which young theologians should test their skills.

He is well remembered for the vigorous polemic with which he could destroy a position contrary to his own, but in his later years he often deplored the combativeness of his earlier years.

The lamentable polarisation and confusion which has developed as a consequence of these conflicting interpretations of our present situation is only too familiar to anyone involved in the life of the Church and has led all too often into destructive polemic rather than real dialogue about the best way forward for Catholic Christianity in the third millennium.

General principles can not, in my opinion, be laid down at this stage of the (still young) Jewish - Christian dialogue; but when polemic is undertaken in such dialogues, it must always be done in careful and clear awareness of the unpleasant uses to which such polemics have often been put by Christians in the past.

Bearing this in mind, we can nevertheless see that being religious entails having intellectual commitments whose scope is universal; that the institutionally dominant modes under which interaction among serious religious persons now occurs, both within the academy and outside it, largely prevents the airing of intellectual differences, and so inevitably trivializes religious commitments; and that if this distressing situation is to be remedied, the rehabilitation of interreligious polemics is essential.

Surely, at the end of a bloodstained millennium in which religion has all too often been a divisive force, we need to rise above petty point «scoring and intemperate polemics to rediscover some of the common ground between Christians and Jews.

There are, in other words, moments of both «realism» and idealism» in experience, from which follows what we may call a «moderate» or «approximating» correspondence theory of truth, such as that proposed by Charles Hartshorne in reply to Richard Rorty's polemic against the «Mirror of Nature.»

Today, we see what Moses was writing, which was a polemic against the religious beliefs and practices of his day.

It is a polemic against the many diverse views concerning Jesus and christianity that arose from study of the other gospels — of which there were far more than three at the time.

In this regard Whitehead deliberately directs his sharpest polemic against the substance - quality model and thereby against the concept of substance found in Aristotle's Categories, according to which a [primary] entity can not be in another as in its subject.

One need only compare the anti-idealistic, anti-metaphysical polemic in which «nature is closed to mind» and any attempt to «drag in» the relations of nature to mind constitutes a «metaphysical interpretation» which is «an illegitimate importation into the philosophy of natural science» (CN 4, 27f.)

When Whitehead attacks the concept of substance in Aristotle's Categories he directs his polemic especially against the «simple location» of natural entities, according to which they exist merely at their particular places and without internal relations to one another.

From Bultmann categories in theology, which polemic needed only to be enlarged to include biblical - kerygmatic as well as objective - interventionist theological language about God to become very radical indeed.

Error is then not only outside the Truth, but polemic in its attitude toward it; which is expressed by saying that the learner has himself forfeited the condition, and is engaged in forfeiting it.

I've long had the sense that Msgr. Ellis's article was retrospectively misinterpreted as a relentless polemic against Catholic colleges and universities mired in the tar - pits of Neo-Scholasticism and intellectually anorexic as a result; on the contrary, it's possible to read Ellis as calling for Catholic institutions of higher learning to play to their putative strengths — the liberal arts, including most especially philosophy and theology — rather than aping the emerging American multiversity, of which the University of California at Berkeley was then considered the paradigm.

Pannenberg engaged in extended polemics against the limits of reason to which so much of Protestant theology had appealed, opening the door to renewal of the bolder claims of Christian theology to affirm universal truth and to encompassing the sciences.

Which is why it is important that the discussion that Steve Chalke has initiated about the Bible should continue and not just resort into the kind of polemic one sadly sees all too often on message boards and comments columns.

At the same time, Barth's polemic against the various ways in which apologetic theology had justified God - language was accepted.

But my view from the sidelines of illness made me more fully aware of the impressive history of the Catholic faith, and of its sources of grace and justice, which even our Reformation polemics can not obscure.

The true testing ground for the implicate - order strategy, it seems to me, may indeed be biology rather than physics, where abstract methods are so powerful as to perhaps make it dispensable: just as the old style building - block materialist was refuted not by philosophical polemic, but by the one authority in which he trusted, i.e., by physics itself, so the nothing - but reductionist in contemporary biology will modify his views should it be possible some day to provide him with a mathematical language that fills the currently existing gap between our formal knowledge of gene structure and combinations, and our intuitive apprehension of growth and shape.

This is another instance in which the core convictions of Jews and Christians have been distorted by centuries of polemic.

The greater visibility for Protestants as a whole in Brazil also means that denominations can no longer live in such isolation: the public image of evangélicos affects all sectors and the desire for power leads to alliances which overlook denominational polemics.

Then, entirely on his own initiative, Wilt launched into a detailed and lengthy polemic, the essence of which was that his countrymen placed too much emphasis on winning and that, specifically, just reaching the NBA finals seemed to him to be the major achievement.

Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. devoted his latest «What You Should Know» polemic to the mini dust - up over Gov. Andrew Cuomo's first Court of Appeals nominee, CUNY Law Prof. Jenny Rivera, which the Bronx Democrat sees as an effort by the governor to further divide the already divided state Senate.

He continued, «With my fullest endorsement, Vice President Alhaji Bawumia has ably spearheaded the technical and legal processes that have enabled the Government to decide how to proceed with the goal of achieving a National e-ID system for Ghana, which is beyond needless controversy and polemics.»

This polemic against the American healthcare system benefited from a far more focused approach than his previous films, which covered so much ground they sometimes lost any sense of narrative or coherence.

Strategic Advantage also took aim at Schneiderman's filing last month, which it says included «an irrelevant polemic against «dark money,» highlighting the Commission's bias against an out - of - state organization that has chosen to express opinions and support policies of which the Commission and the Governor disapprove.»

After the experimental political polemic Redacted and the gun - for - hire mess The Black Dahlia, Brian De Palma has returned to what should be his comfort zone; a violent, erotic thriller which he actually wrote himself.

Alternatively, such family - orientated films have launched polemics from critics for substandard plots, economic production values and primarily, alienating heathens with sanctimonious ideologies, which trumpet a transparent proselytizing narrative that fails to inspire on any dramatic or entertainment level.

Probably the word «global» will arise fierce polemics, since in Brazil it is associated with the predatory globalization in which it is inscribed the colonization imposed by the Europeans upon other peoples in the planet, that was initiated in the 15 th / 16

Yet there are numerous flaws in their respective polemics, many of which Dropout Nation has taken apart since its launch.

Oehlen wishes to restore complexity to a medium that has been declared defunct, not by dodging all the attacks and polemic to which tradition is subjected, but by making the picture itself the locus of lively debate on these issues.

FB: Well it's a polemic that I actually borrowed from the Archive of Modern Conflict, which is itself a photo - based archive in London.

The problem with figurative art at the time was that it had run out of steam, but the polemic was that you couldn't do it any more, which seemed absurd after 4,000 years of people making representations of each other.

From painting to print, sculpture and installation, the featured works juxtapose publicly intended messages with deeply personal revelations, which are at once polemic and poetic, positive and negative, both in tone and form.

By the early 1960s Minimalism emerged as an abstract movement in art (with roots in geometric abstraction via Malevich, the Bauhaus and Mondrian) which rejected the idea of relational, and subjective painting, the complexity of Abstract expressionist surfaces, and the emotional zeitgeist and polemics present in the arena of Action painting.

The exhibition takes its title from an early unpublished manuscript of a comedic novel by Karl Marx, Scorpion and Felix, in which three characters Merten, the tailor; Scorpion, his son; and Felix, his chief apprentice, engage in a satirical narrative that abstractly references irresolvable philosophical polemics.

Which leaves — if one is assessing things generously — maybe 5 % of content that is in line with my original blogging intent; that is, it favors literary narrative over polemics.)

By the early 1960s Minimalism had emerged as an abstract movement in art (with roots in geometric abstraction via Malevich, the Bauhaus and Mondrian) which rejected the idea of relational, and subjective painting, the complexity of Abstract expressionist surfaces, and the emotional zeitgeist and polemics present in the arena of Action painting.