Sentence examples for In the polemic from inspiring English sources

The Combat Robotics Club is a group of MIT students and alumni who share a passion for arena-style robot battles, in the polemic spirit of Battle Bots and Robot Wars.

On account of its dogmatic character and its practical end, the philosophy of Epicurus was not subject to development, except in the polemic and in its application to themes that Epicurus either had treated briefly or had never dealt with at all.

Yet, the philosophical implications of this position not only implicitly underlay so much of his thought, but were made quite explicit in the polemic against Sartre's glorification of individual choice, which forms the final part of Lévi-Strauss's most adventurous book, The Savage Mind (1962).

Kitcher's case is open to serious objections, but it has the conceptual and logical weight that is lacking in the polemics of the scientific atheists.

But the difference between how it manifests itself in the polemics of the anti-theists and the reassuring theology of the God Within may be a more important difference, and division, than Hart's analysis sometimes suggests.

In the 14th century the epiclesis became an issue in the polemics between Greeks and Latins, because all Eastern eucharistic prayers included an invocation of the Holy Spirit while the Roman canon of the mass did not.

He was an occasionally observant if less than pious Catholic who became part of that circle of secular, mostly Jewish New York intellectuals whose style of thought and expression, if not their current politics, was rooted in the polemics of the kind of exotic Marxist radicalisms that never tempted him.

Though steeped in the polemics of the day, this continues to be a seminal text of criticism.

Calvin actively participated in the polemics that were exchanged between the Lutheran and Reformed branches of the Reformation movement.

Epiphanius of Salamis, Bishop of Salamis in Cyprus, was born at Eleutheropolis; at Ad nearby he established a monastery which is often mentioned in the polemics of Jerome with Rufinus and John, Bishop of Jerusalem.

What is often lost in the polemics of education reform in this country is the question of whether we are situating learning in the lives of the students in a manner that deepens the opportunity for innovation, creativity and a resilience of spirit, enabling the learner to, as Ken Robinson has written, "cultivate the real depth and dynamism of human abilities of every sort".