Sentences with phrase «polemicists in»

However, I am convinced that the polemicists in both camps — the «strict separationists» and the «religious right» — read the signs of the times incorrectly.

I agree that polemicists in the culture wars are often as careless with historical facts and epidemiological data about children as they are with facts generally.

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A polemicist might well have salty things to say about this abdication of moral principles that Christians have held since the earliest days of the faith, but in Wilcox's mild and irenic diction the mainline churches are simply «accommodationist,» espousing what he calls a «Golden Rule Christianity» that honors tolerance, kindness, and social justice as paramount virtues.

According to Nathan Hatch, professor of American religious history at the University of Notre Dame, this kind of populist sentiment - expressed in 1803 by the New England politician and polemicist Benjamin Austin, Jr. - represents the salient contribution of American religion to the formation of our cultural ethos.

Catholic polemicists implied that there was excessive womanizing in Protestant Wittenberg and that Luther was drinking and jesting to the moment of his death.

Yet, if I understand your views regarding the modern state of Israel and its current conflict with its neighbors correctly, I do have some real concerns — particularly in light of the current political climate (the U.N. vote on Palestinian statehood) as well as a growing trend among certain Christian polemicists against Israel (see Gary Burge and Stephen Sizer).

She is also a powerful polemicist: an acerbic social critic who pulls no punches in her articles in Commentary and the Wall Street Journal and her 1992 book If I Am Not for Myself: The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews.

In 1844, the Spanish priest, philosopher, and polemicist Jaime Balmes published the third and final volume of his massive Protestantism and Catholicism Compared, With Respect to European Civilization.

In an interview with US polemicist Michael Moore, Benn talks about the lessons learned in World War TwIn an interview with US polemicist Michael Moore, Benn talks about the lessons learned in World War Twin World War Two.

-- Shohei Imamura The instigator of what came to be called the Japanese New Wave, Nagisa Oshima was, and continues to be, a polemicist, a provocateur, and — like Godard, a major influence — a film critic in disguise.

In education, an under - appreciated but powerful example of the impact of ideas can be found in the influence of Ayn Rand, a Russian - American novelist and polemicist who died in 198In education, an under - appreciated but powerful example of the impact of ideas can be found in the influence of Ayn Rand, a Russian - American novelist and polemicist who died in 198in the influence of Ayn Rand, a Russian - American novelist and polemicist who died in 198in 1982.

Taking up the same baseless, tired, and nostalgic arguments used by Charles Murray (and citing that tired polemicist's overly long claptrap, Real Education) Gardner declares that the focus on college is ridiculous because some kids in his mind aren't «college material» and that many jobs don't require higher education.

«The hell with them all» wrote Hesse in response to the bruising critiques offered by the two opposing polemicists.

El Lissitzky was a Russian avant - garde artist and polemicist who utilized art in order to initiate various social and political changes.

Patrick Heron CBE (30 January 1920 — 20 March 1999) was a British abstract and figurative artist, writer, and polemicist, who lived in Zennor, Cornwall.

It is of course in the interest of polemicists to inflate the «subsidy» given to fossil fuels by throwing in some things that are not really subsidies to the generation or consumption of power from fossil fuels.

Mark Steyn is a prominent conservative polemicist and writer in the United States and Canada who has chosen option two.

He is in extremely exalted company as a polemicist, as you can see from the link and the term is by no means derogatory.