The mandate for missions, the defense against prophecy, the polemics with gnosticism and other alternative versions of Christianity, the persecution of the church, and, not least of all, management of church discipline allowed the monarchical episcopacy to emerge in the early centuries.
His classes rang with the polemic against absolutes, and a new vitality flowed into the veins of American philosophers.
The enduring polemic with Grigore Alexandrescu, as well as his quarrel with Bolliac, formed the basis of his pamphlet Domnul Sarsailă autorul ("Mr. Old Nick, the Author"), an attack on what Heliade viewed as writers whose pretentions contrasted with their actual mediocrity.
"I think this polemic with Cambridge has been overblown," said one close friend of Regeni's in Egypt.
The polemic, written jointly with a US biologist, was timed for hearings in the US House of Representatives on human cloning.
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.
But while Bishop continues to be read, the polemics associated with both the New Formalism and Language poetry feel dated, part of the niggling history of taste rather than the grand history of art.
Only since their publication has it been possible to get a clear sense of the overall trajectory of Benjamin's thought during this period—rendering redundant, or at least displacing, many of the polemics associated with previous cycles of reception.
Others speculate that the old fox Scolari has selected Ronaldinho in the expectation that Ronaldinho's limitations will be exposed and he can be done with the polemic once and for all.
Alongside the polemic are accounts of encounters with sporting champions from Martina Navratilova to Marilyn Okoro, and sporty celebrities from Gladiators' Jet to Mel C. Some stories make you boggle – the discovery, for instance, that England midfielder Katie Chapman had to miss out on the World Cup because she couldn't afford childcare and the FA refused to help.
The polemics of Epiphanius along with his quotations of the gospel text (in italics) are shown in parallel: The fifth quotation (14.5) appears to be a harmony of Matthew 12 47 48 and its Synoptic parallels.
