I read Flannery's book, liked it and am not sure what you mean by saying it is «
too polemical to appeal to those not already convinced».
Even in the area of his greatest contribution, the doctrine of man, he was
too polemical to be confined to the formal structures of theology.
I want to claim the tradition for our side, if that's not
too polemical a way of speaking.
Not exact matches
For some years now, a raft of distinguished scholars (Heiko Oberman, David Yeago in this journal, Bruce Marshall, Christine Helmer, and Paul Hinlicky) have been showing how Catholic the real Luther was» contrary to the portrait of Luther used for
polemical purposes by
too many evangelicals and even Lutherans.
But Nietzsche easily outdoes him here, especially in his
polemical essay Human, All
Too Human, where he roundly declares all art false to the core: