With both words serving double duty--"beautiful" as noun and adjective, "changes" as verb and noun--the poet shows us in miniature what the poem will fully illustrate: his
irenic approach to the problem.
If there are few reviewers of a book by Barker without bias (he is an acute but generously
irenic reviewer himself), I must here declare my own, which is heartily in favour of imagination.
Throughout the book, and with an
irenic rather than an aggressive approach, he demonstrates through close readings of particular texts the mutual interdependence of the Hellenic, the Hebraic, and the Christian.
Aristocratic virtues are forsaken for popular,
irenic ones.
The reader will, in the end, have to make up his own mind about the "corruption and vanity" (fasad wa-butlan) of the Mu'tazilite position as portrayed in this not very
irenic account.
Xenophobia remains a significant issue, but if anything, the
irenic reaction to the attacks suggests that among American political and media elites, Orientalism has become a dead letter.
Antier is superb in describing the mentality of French colonialism of this period, which de Foucauld basically supported all his life, though some might object to his often
irenic view.
With a mostly
irenic tone, Changing Frontiers still does not allude to the changing frontiers of mission as understood by churches in the ecumenical movement.
A hot-tempered Luther was not the only one stirring the pot, and even the
irenic Melanchthon could not forestall the firestorm that came.
Chapter six reviews the controversy between Pilgram Marpeck's restitutionist ecclesiology and the
irenic spiritualism of Entfelder and others but reiterates the warning against `reading back into sixteenth-century debate all too systematic distinctions between biblicists and spiritualists ...
But Wolf is a so-called "third wave" feminist, so her approach here is more
irenic than alienating.
Here, however, there is room for the
irenic position that one person's duck may be another person's rabbit.
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