polemicizing

I wonder from time to time whether Luke, by emphasizing Jesus' growth in wisdom and stature, by highlighting Jesus doing all that he did through the power of the Spirit, and by making Simon Magus the only person in his two-volume work to claim to be something like "God incarnate", is not polemicizing against another view of Jesus that is circulating in his time.

Ecce Recensus: The Only True God Persuades A Skeptic James F. McGrath 2009

Lewis, who realized that polemicizing on behalf of Christianity would require that language step down from the pulpit and get into the streets.

The harsh style 2009

Lewis, who realized that polemicizing on behalf of Christianity would require that language step down from the pulpit and get into the streets.

Archive 2009-08-01 2009

The presentation of this "Judas," polemicizing as it was, was probably never meant to take on the historical and theological dimensions it has, traveling through the last two thousand years and leading up to the present, but with a stubborn toughness it has endured.

Robert Eisenman: Redemonizing Judas: Gospel Fiction or Gospel Truth? 2009

The presentation of this "Judas," polemicizing as it was, was probably never meant to take on the historical and theological dimensions it has, coursing through the last two thousand years and leading up to the present; but with a stubborn toughness it has endured.

Robert Eisenman: Gospel Fiction and the Redemonization of Judas 2008

There certainly was a deluge of conflicting opinions, posturing and polemicizing.

ARE WE ON THE VERGE OF THE DELUGE 2008

The presentation of this 'Judas,' polemicizing as it was, was probably never meant to take on the historical and theological dimensions it has, coursing through the last two thousand years and leading up to the present but with a stubborn toughness it has endured.

Robert Eisenman: Rehabilitating 'Judas Iscariot' 2008

He and his friends Fred Barnes and Brit Hume urged young conservative journalists to go easy on the polemicizing and to stress reporting.

Four Decades of Conservative Journalism 2007

I think the funny was in the segments with the King and the Kargish princess, which also have some wince-inducing anti-Burqah polemicizing.

At the Risk of Offending Ursula K. Le Guin and Studio Ghibli Fans... Abigail Nussbaum 2006

But her shrill, naive polemicizing caused Michaels to inwardly wince, as if at a cruel reflection of himself.

The Cry of the Onlies Judy Klass 2000