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Synonyms for polemic

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Synonyms for polemic

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Synonyms for polemic

a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology)

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a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma)

of or involving dispute or controversy

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Interreligious Encounters in Polemics Between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and Beyond
3)., we want to advance the claim that in the contemporary Turkish press, critique survives as polemic. This survival, however, undermines rather than realizes the capacities of reason to the extent that every sense of public criticism is co-opted by the publicity of polemic.
While the earlier book concentrated on polemic in medieval texts, this volume extends the enquiry into the early modern period.
He does the public a great disservice by being long on rhetoric and polemic but short on specifics.
constructs a narrative of the polemic and its various stages up to the condemnation of laxism in 1700 by the General Assembly of the French Clergy.
Separately, the Foreign Ministry here rejected "a polemic" engendered by Israeli criticism of France's Consul General in Jerusalem, Frederic Desgneaux, who was attacked for remarks concerning the archaeology and historic make-up of the region.
MUSCAT: In a closely-contested debate, Indian School Muscat represented by Jamshed Patwa and Nishigandha Kelkar emerged champions of the Ambassador's Polemic Challenge 2011- 2012 and lifted the coveted trophy.
Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic. By Alexandra Cuffel.
Edmondo Lupieri reads the Apocalypse as a polemic between Jewish groups, especially in light of Qumran.
Inventing Polemic: Religion, Print, and Literary Culture in Early Modern England
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