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Example sentences for "public disputation"

  • It was then decided to have a Public Disputation.

  • The citizens asked for a Public Disputation.

  • This influence was still more in evidence whenever a distinguished bonze accepted the Faith, an example of which occurred when the two most celebrated personages of that class came down from Kioto to Amaguchi for a public disputation.

  • Thus at Venice in 1667 Macedo held a public disputation on nearly every branch of human knowledge, especially the Bible, theology, patrology, history, literature and poetry.

  • On August 31, by order of the queen, bruised as he was and almost dismembered by the long and repeated rackings, he was led with Sherwin to a public disputation in the royal presence.

  • At Baden-in-Aargau in May and June 1526 a public disputation on the doctrine of transubstantiation was held, in which Eck and Thomas Murner were pitted against Johann Oecolampadius.

  • Luther entrusted his defence to Carlstadt, who, besides answering the insinuations of Eck in 400 distinct theses, declared his readiness to meet him in a public disputation.

  • Augustine renewed the challenge to a public disputation.

  • It was only at the third that the presbyter Malchion, a practised dialectician and formerly a rhetorician, succeeded in unmasking him at a public disputation.

  • This statesman arranged for a public disputation at Carthage in A.

  • And attempt was made to embroil Bunyan in a public disputation in London upon this subject, which he very wisely avoided.

  • With him they held a public disputation or controversy, to which allusions are made by both parties,[2] and in Bunyan they met a master spirit who confounded them.

  • In this very city, the university having resolved to compel a disciple of Melancthon to retract, a woman, named Argula de Staufen, undertook his defence, and challenged the doctors to a public disputation.

  • I offer you a public disputation at Wittemberg or at Erfurth, if you will procure me a safe-conduct.

  • Having defeated his master in a public disputation, he founded a school at Melun near Paris, where thousands of pupils flocked to him.

  • But when the adherents of the Romish party protested, it arranged a public disputation on 29th Jan.

  • As the result of a public disputation in August, A.


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