Sentences with phrase «polemical stances»

Inspired by the presence of Francis Picabia's painting of the same name — Catch As Catch Can, 1913 — the exhibition engages a prying apart and emptying out of stylistic investments, critical prompts, and polemical stances in order that these tactics be revital - ized with a restless comic gravitas.

Inspired by the presence of Francis Picabia's painting of the same name — Catch As Catch Can, 1913 — the exhibition engages a prying apart and emptying out of stylistic investments, critical prompts, and polemical stances in order that these tactics be revitalized with a restless comic gravitas.

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

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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.

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.