Thirteen sermons on the birth of Christ; and fifty-six polemical sermons against heresies, viz.
The sixth volume gives us ninety other polemical Discourses against the Arian and Eunomian heretics or Searchers, as he calls them, because they attempted to penetrate the divine mysteries, and the incomprehensible nature of God himself.
Of polemical writing, as of other kinds of warfare, I think it may be said, that it is often useful, sometimes necessary, and always more or less of an evil.
This was perhaps no more than the outcome of the fierce polemical spirit of the abbot of Clairvaux, which led him to include all his adversaries under a single anathema.
Not content with letting loose on him some stanch polemical writers, the bishops prevailed on James to summon the author before the council.
He wrote on the subject with much polemical bitterness, but without reference, so far as I have observed, to any political faction; though Sir Dudley Carleton's letters show that he contemplated the matter as a minister ought to do.
He once more entered into polemical controversy; saw the newspapers which had sparkled with his forceful, high-minded criticism die; and lived miserably upon a daily allowance of thirty sous, earned by copying for the Palais.
History pitched in a shrill polemical key is not instructive and is something less than amusing.
I have followed Cotton implicitly here, but without feeling sure that his memory can ever be depended on where his polemical feeling is concerned.
In that polemical warfare, arguments were at first the only offensive and defensive weapons used and handled by the combatants on both sides.
After a short literal exposition of the text, the holy doctor frequently inserts polemical discussions, in which he proves the Consubstantiality of the Son against the Anomæans.
Thus even these polemical exchanges between Catholics and Protestants become blessings in disguise.
In their polemicalwritings the learned men of the age seem to exhaust a zoological park in their frantic search for striking epithets to hurl at their opponent.
No one can be a true theologian without being polemical on occasion.
We do not mean to suggest that Luther in his polemical writings employed the cheap method of replying to the coarse language adopted by his opponents in similar language; but it is fair to him that this fact be recorded.
Now no one at all familiar with polemical literature can deny that the modes and ambiguities of doctrine comprised in this Trinitarian list are more numerous than can be detected in the parallel "heresies.
No one can live habitually under the influence of these grand and affecting objects, and turn from them to condescend to the littleness of a polemical temper.
This very unsatisfactory essay is, nevertheless, a fair specimen of the polemical literature which was produced by Dewey and others during these years.
But after this not unpromising introduction, Dewey falls into the polemicalstrain again.
Perhaps under this head we ought also to name the chapters on polemical theology in the great works of bibliography of the German scholars of the same time, such as Pfaff (Hist.
The tendency of it will be in some degree polemical as well as didactic, refuting error by analysing it into its causes, repelling present attacks by studying the history of former ones.
The Lectures have a polemical aspect, but they seek to obtain their end by means of the educational.
Lardner and Ritter think that Philostratus did not write with a polemical reference to Christianity, but Baur concludes otherwise.
It has been thought that Philostratus had a polemical aim against the Christian faith,(218) as the memoir of Apollonius is in so many points a parody on the life of Christ.
His theses on the Primacy and his other polemical statements (see below, xx.
There we find polemical outbursts interspersed with excellent admonitions to prayer,[234] confutations of the errors of the Turks, and lamentations on the judgment of God as displayed in these wars.
It would, in fact, be necessary to read in their entirety certain of his polemical works.
In the Resolutions on the Indulgence Theses we find the same antipathy to the war, again justified on similar mystical and polemical grounds.
As has been proved by Döllinger in his work on the Reformation, and as was well seen even by earlier polemical writers, Luther’s statements concerning his own mission were not remarkable for consistency.
Luther was evidently quite incapable of writing on the subject without his polemical ideas casting their shadow over his field of vision.
The learned polemicalwriters of the Society did, however, make use of the writings of heretics, Luther’s inclusive, as is clear from their works.
But Georgie gave but a cursory thought to that, for the amazing supposition dawned on him that Lucia had not been polemical at all, but was burying instead of chopping with the hatchet.
Georgie felt inclined to give a hollow groan and sink under the table when this awful polemical rhetoric began.
The closing chapters of the work are more polemical than the earlier ones.
Calonne soon afterwards passed over to England, and during his residence there kept up a polemical correspondence with Necker on the finances.
We find in the account of these tours no trace of the acrimonious polemical discussions which used to enliven the labors of the missionaries at the Barrens.
It is obvious that, in the great polemical question regarding miracles which was being discussed on the occasion of the events at Lourdes, the two sides were acting on diametrically opposite plans.
The minister then insisted upon making a rancorous polemical prayer, in the course of which he said: "O God of mercy!
It is a manly, sensible letter, more interesting as a specimen of what a young student can achieve in a polemicalcombat with veteran antagonists than from anything new or peculiar in its arguments.
A definite polemical attitude towards the popular faith is also a characteristic of the Cynic school, hence, though our information is very meagre, we must speak of it a little more fully.
It was otherwise with Christian polemical writing.
Graebner: "While Diaconus in Grosshennersdorf, Muhlenberg had already published a polemical tract against Dr.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "polemical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
