Sentence examples for polemical nature from inspiring English sources

Moreover, Schleiermacher remarks on the distinctively polemical nature of Christianity, the extraordinary extent to which Christianity's religious and moral standpoint is defined by a hostile opposition to other standpoints, and even to dissenting positions within Christianity itself.

The polemical nature of the debate means that statistics – which are already unreliable – are manipulated by both sides.

Yet the punch line for most lawyer jokes is not about the polemical nature of these practitioners.

The second reason for the traditional inculpation of Catherine is the work of the pamphleteers and the polemical nature of the historiography of the event.

Although verifiable information about the political motivations of the Sakyapas remains elusive, the unstable political situation in Tibet could have at least partially accounted for the overtly polemical nature of some of Gorampa's Madhyamaka texts.

Although lawyers as a group are white-collar workers, trial lawyers have significantly higher salivary testosterone than nontrial lawyers, which has been attributed to the polemical nature of face-to-face litigation (Dabbs et al. 1998).

All of Jacobi's publications are polemical in nature.

A polemical inquiry into the nature of violence.

He also published polemical essays about the nature of sculpture in Artforum.

This year's Booker panel are keen to make polemical points about the nature of the novel – and the most challenging of all in those terms is Galgut's brilliant In a Strange Room.

It's certainly serious, and ambitious, and involved in what it's talking about, but it ain't exactly Finnegans Wake". This year's Booker panel are keen to make polemical points about the nature of the novel – and the most challenging of all in those terms is Galgut's brilliant In a Strange Room.