And it is difficult for us moderns to realize the polemicspirit in which the Gospels were written.
Hence the constant polemic against all three which recurs in all Nietzsche's writings.
Yes, now he was in the right mood to finish his polemic against the sage of Ferney.
Your witty niece, Olivo, refers to the polemic on which I have been at work for the last few days, the pastime of leisure hours.
There is, however, no historical warrant for the account of the matter given in the foregoing novel, and still less for the statement that Casanova wrote a polemic against Voltaire.
He was willing to admit what he had hitherto been sedulous to conceal from himself, that even his literary labors, including the polemic against Voltaire upon which his last hopes reposed, would never secure any notable success.
She smiled with gentle mockery, saying: "I fancy such a book might prove far more entertaining than your polemic against Voltaire.
I would not myself refuse it, though I am at this moment engaged in composing a polemic against him.
In the opening chapter of his polemic he had cited from Voltaire's works, especially from the famous Pucelle, a number of passages that seemed peculiarly well-fitted to justify the charge of atheism.
He thought longingly of the cool parlor in Mantua, where at this very hour he might have been working unhindered at his polemic against Voltaire.
Concerning the Bogomils something can be gathered from the information collected by Euthymius Zygadenus in the 12th century, and from the polemic Against the Heretics written in Slavonic by St Kozma during the 10th century.
I guess that the comments of the latter on the Prophets will be found almost sterile in these tiger-lilies and brimstone flowers of polemic rhetoric, compared with the controversy of the former with our Henry VIII.
It would be interesting, if it were feasible, to point out the epoch at which the text mode of arguing in polemic controversy became predominant; I mean by single texts without any modification by the context.
Though these lectures must be regarded as instructive for the believer, rather than polemic against the unbeliever, yet they are intended to serve also a controversial purpose.
Vondel now translated those portions of these favorable to the papacy, combining them in a polemic called "Grotius' Testament.
Shortly after this came his "Decretum Horribile," a powerful polemicagainst the Calvinistic doctrine of election and predestination as interpreted by the Gomarists.
Never was satire so crushing and at the same time so keen; never mockery so unanswerable, polemic so overwhelming.
The panegyrist and the historian ever follow in the train of the soldier and the statesman; the epic and the eulogy as surely in the path of great deeds as the polemic and the satire in the track of wickedness and folly.
Zigabenus also carried on a polemic against the heretics of his own day, the Armenians, Bogomils and Saracens.
His History of the United States to the Reconstruction of the Union (1887) is a polemic rather than a history.
Now, it is the very enjoyment of this element that throws many men upon the materialistic or agnostic hypothesis, as a polemic reaction against the contrary extreme.
Scholarship and Inspiration, 85--"After the Council of Trent, the Roman Catholic polemic became sharper.
We have a keen polemic against the designation of Christ as [Greek: theos] in Clem.
The polemic against Simon Magus almost appears as a mere accessory.
We have no sure evidence that the later so-called Modalism (Monarchianism) had representatives before the last third of the second century; yet the polemic of Justin, Dial.
He has also shewn in his celebrated "Antimuratorius" that an impartial and critical investigation of the problems of the history of dogma, might render the most effectual service to the polemic against the errors of Romanism.
Finally, the decided repudiation of the awakening of Christian faith by visions and dreams, and the polemic against these is also no doubt of importance for determining the date; see XVII.
But, as a rule, these efforts were of the nature of a polemic against the dominant Church.
On this point we have as yet no details, and these can only be ascertained by a thorough examination of the polemic of Plotinus against the Gnostics.
Seems to me, though you talk so good, you are mighty quick at a hint the other way, or else you want to pick a polemic quarrel with me.
The polemic of Servetus, however, extended beyond the doctrine of the Trinity to an attack upon the church doctrine of original sin, and the repudiation of infant baptism.
These three strings are described in succession, and so the book forms a complete compendium of Christian faith and life, with a sharp polemic against the debased church doctrine and morals of the age.
Luther published a scathing polemic against it, and renewed his appeal, made two years before, to an œcumenical council.
Their polemic also extended to the whole papal system, and the corruption of church and clergy connected therewith.
He began his polemic against the prevailing doctrine of the Church at Strassburg in A.
It is true that in their polemic against confounding worship with religion they reveal the fact that in their day the cultus was carried on with the utmost zeal and splendour, and was held in the highest estimation.
At first we have in Hosea and Isaiah the polemic directed against molten and graven images, then in Jeremiah that against wood and stone, i.
This it proves itself to be by the consent of the conscience of all, on which the prophets count, just as Jesus does in the Gospel of John, in spite of all their polemicagainst the traditional religion.
Jeremiah's polemic is directed no longer against the images, but against wood and stone, i.
And it would not be surprising when we consider the whole character of the polemic against Graf's hypothesis, if the next objection should be the very opposite of the above, viz.
Some served their avowed object with great success, being powerful instruments in the anti-papal polemic and sustaining the revolted Franciscans in their hope of an approaching triumph.
The polemicis directed against a dualism which developed theoretically into docetic views of Christ's person (ii.
Mill's polemic against the Moral Sense theory, even against a moral sense produced by association, reveals the really critical points of the true Utilitarian doctrine.
Beside the polemic advantages to be gained in the course which has been suggested, there is another in the interest of pacification.
Therefore, if our polemic arms are to bring down their man, the affair must begin with a sharper delineation of the mutual relation between the essence and the visible form of the Church.
Protestant polemic theology makes the following use of this view.
He was destined to make, not long after, fiercer onsets in his polemic prose writings.
Samson is Milton in the polemic and in the post-Restoration period of his life.
A polemic author ought not merely to destroy his victim.
I think that a free discussion of the subject on my part would in any case be more useful than a polemic attempt at rebutting these criticisms in detail.
But in polemic or controversial cases Greek is indispensable.
And in what way could such a polemic interest be evoked except through political partisanship?
The spirit of polemicis still prominent in 1st John, but the Gospel shows the effect of opposition only in the more careful statement of the evangelist's exact meaning.
Schweitzer writes with great scholarship and power, but decidedpolemic interest as a "consistent eschatologist.
Plotinos, in his early periods a Numenian Platonist, will later go over to Stoicism, and conduct a polemicwith the Gnostics, the Alexandrian heirs of Platonic dualism, under the influence of the Stoic Porphyry.
To say that evil is not such as to form, but as to nature is opposite to form is nonsense, inasmuch as life is full of positive evils, as Numenius brought out in 16, and Plotinos acknowledged even in spite of his polemic against the Gnostics.
Is it any wonder, then, that he wrote a book on the differences between Plotinos and Numenius at a later date, when Porphyry had started a polemic with him?
The chief effort of Numenius is a polemic against the materialism of the Stoics, and to it Plotinos devotes a whole book.
His polemic against the Aristotelian and Stoic categories.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "polemic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
