Although none of Farel's sermons are extant, several of his French books remain, including an elementary dogmatics, a liturgy, a polemic against the Libertine party, and an anti-Catholic attack on the use of images and relics.
But for me, the first two UB40 albums, Signing Off (1980), and Present Arms (1981) remain great slices of post-punk cross-cultural pop-polemic, and served as gateway drugs to the Jamaican source for a grateful and curious teenager.
Reviewing the book in The New Yorker this month, Adam Gopnik highlighted Pagels's argument that Revelation is "essentially an anti-Christian polemic... written by an expatriate follower of Jesus who wanted the movement to remain within an entirely Jewish context, as opposed to the 'Christianity' just then being invented".
Indeed, Peggy Noonan's "Case Against Hillary Clinton" (ReganBooks/HarperCollins), a polemic, will be No. 4 on The New York Times's best-seller list on May 4. And "Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush" (Random House) by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose will remain on The Times's extended list.
While the edition is likely to remain controversial for the obvious issues – that late-stage breastfeeding is/isn't weird; that child will/will not grow up well-adjusted; and (sadly) that mom pictured is/isn't hot – the cover is not problematic because it's polemic.
Despite instances of anticlericalism and polemics against the church, most of the faithful remained loyal and found the church to be the vehicle of their eternal salvation.
His own politics have purposefully remained entirely separate from the play, Thompson says: "This play isn't a polemic, it's not a didactic lecture about what I think.
In 1946 he started graduate work at Harvard, receiving a doctorate in 1954 for work on what remained his specialty, the beginnings of Baroque music in 16th-century theory and polemics.
He then exiled himself to Paris and Brussels, remaining abroad as a teacher while writing his first major works, including Introduzione allo studio della filosofia (1839 40; "Introduction to the Study of Philosophy"), a polemic against the philosophical system propounded from 1830 by Antonio Rosmini-Serbati.
The fourth volume, a polemic against the now equally forgotten Friedrich Justus Riedel, who had published a hodgepodge Theory of the Fine Arts and Sciences: Extracts from various Authors in 1767, remained unpublished during Herder's lifetime.
