In order, therefore, to make Catholic polemics effective, the relation between the essence and the manifestation of the Church must be first of all theologically {104} established.
Only by this demonstration will the retreat of Protestant polemics into the ideal Church be for ever cut off.
It was easy for Catholic polemics to destroy this pretension.
The cloisters were forsaken, violent polemics were published against the canon of the mass and the worship of saints and images.
The discussions which have of late occupied the public mind regarding the polemics of education, have, we fear, had an injurious influence on the real progress of education amongst us.
Of the remaining Protestant polemics we may name:-- Dr.
It is indeed remarkable how unskilled in polemics is this man who had produced a critical work of the first importance with almost playful ease.
The latter was bright, witty, ready and fearless, and he girded on his editorial armor and leaped into the arena of local polemics with an ardor and a fearlessness that, for a time, set the town in a furor.
The extreme violence of his polemicsled to a duel between him and the Byronic poet, Jose Heriberto Garcia Quevedo.
Through the heated polemics of the more ardent selectionists Wagner's theory came to grow into an alternative instead of a help to the theory of selectional evolution.
His disciples (Littre, Robin) continued to direct against Darwin the polemics which their master had employed against Lamarck.
His polemics against the clergy are not attacks upon Christianity, though he contends that religion is subject to growth as well as other things.
At all events he accomplished by his speeches a complete overthrow of his opponents the Phosphorists, without engaging in the barren polemics to which they invited him.
Obviously in these pages polemics are out of place, and the step which the conscientious painter thought fit to take has to be here noted so far only as it serves as an index to character and as an interpretation of art.
Let us now turn from polemics to the pleasing descriptions given by Niebuhr and Bunsen of the daily lives of the German Brotherhood.
Polonius might say, these catalogues are crammed with polemics and books of grave discourse.
Having come down, in the course of English Literature, to the reign of William and Mary, we must look back for a brief space to consider the religious polemics which grew out of the national troubles and vicissitudes.
The intensity of ideological polemics had diminished with increasing contacts between East and West, and the gap between the two social systems seemed narrower, especially in regard to economic planning and development.
In the early 1970s the polemics were reduced to a minor level, and constructive talks leading to a rapprochement began to occur.
In Antwerp the elders forbade their ministers to indulge in any publicpolemics against Flacius.
Such ideas as these involved Luzzatto in discussions and polemics with the greater number of his friends, the German Jewish scholars, whose views were far removed from his.
Misunderstanding disturbed him only momentarily, opposition stimulated him, he rejoiced openly in the controversies which he provoked, and engaged in polemics with the good humor and vigor that were the essence of his genius.
We've got a thing big enough to set forth now affirmatively, and I think that readers generally hate minute polemics and recriminations.
But seldom have the amenities of discussion more completely disappeared than in the polemics now raging over the trial for treason of an officer of the general staff.
Roman Court towards murder, 216; on the literary polemics of James I.
Even beyond the range of such acute theological polemics as we have been considering, the pressing exigencies of political or ecclesiastical controversy might cause a capable man to think for himself even in the ninth century.
In the course of time allegory will be applied by the Jew Philo of Alexandria to the Pentateuch; and one or two centuries later it will play a great role in Christian polemics against Jew and then against Manichean.
Although he was greatly influenced as a youth by the writings of Francke, he later became convinced that there were dangerous tendencies in the Halle and Herrnhut movements, and he did not hesitate to issue violent polemics against them.
He became a prolific writer and took special delight in directing bitter polemics against the Church of his childhood.
Indignation more intense, scorn more contemptuous, satire more powerful, invective more tremendous than that glowing in the polemics of this great satirist have never struck fear into the hardened hearts of the wicked.
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