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	Polemic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Polemic is the art or practice of inciting disputation or causing controversy, for example in religious, philosophical, or political matters.
		As such a polemic text on a topic is written specifically to dispute or refute a topic that is widely viewed to be a "sacred cow" or beyond reproach, in an effort to "stir up trouble".
		Polemic is also a branch of theology, pertaining to the history or conduct of ecclesiastical controversy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Polemic (396 words)

	Polemic and History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Examining the etymology of the word, as shown in the dictionary entry at the end of this essay, the word polemic is derived from the Greek "war" and was originally used in theological contexts.
		They may appear inadvertently in some polemical pieces, but they don't help the effectiveness of such a piece as polemical writing (on the other hand, the appearance of objectivity and fairness, is just another trick in the bag of the polemical writer – call it camouflaged polemic, or polemic masquerading as objective presentation).
		The polemical historian, on the other hand, is fighting for a cause, against another cause, and is simply abusing history as the raw material in support the argument.
	www.danielhindes.com /essays/polemic_and_history.php (1249 words)

	Polemic and History
		Examining the etymology of the word, as shown in the dictionary entry at the end of this post, the word polemic is derived from the Greek "war" and was originally used in theological contexts.
		Dishonesty is not implicit in "polemic." Unless, of course, you believe that nothing should ever be attacked, and you feel that a polemic in itself is indefensible.
		Arguably on subjects on which a person feels strongly, a "polemic" is a more ethically appropriate form of discourse than an approach that purports to be dispassionate and objective about which the author does not reveal his or her strong personal opinions or involvement.
	uncletaz.com /at/marapr04/polemichist.html (2781 words)

	open polemic abandons leninist democratic centralism
		The Open Polemic stated that this form of organisation would have to be surrendered in order for Communists to unite in a single democratic centralist organisation.
		Unless the Open Polemic is indulging in mere phrase-mongering, it must signify a departure from the concept of democratic centralism first defined by Lenin, and defended by Marxist-Leninists.
		It does the Open Polemic no credit when they assert falsely that Partisan, in rejecting their formulation, is therefore somehow in favour of what they call "leader centralism".
	www.oneparty.co.uk /html/polemic.html (1667 words)

	ISML ISSUE 5
		The assertion that Open Polemic argues that, "democratic centralism was the cloak under which revisionism triumphed and subverted the communist revolution" is a figment of Kumar's imagination.
		As Open Polemic pointed out in its paper: "Revisionism is politically and organisationally manifested within the working class movement by the trends of anarcho-communism on the left and reformo-communism on the right and by the various conjunctions of both of these trends.
		Open Polemic took issue with the summary of the London Conference, written by Hari Kumar, as follows: "The assertion that Open Polemic argues that, 'democratic centralism was the cloak under which revisionism triumphed and subverted the communist revolution' is a figment of Kumar's imagination.
	website.lineone.net /~partisan_britain/ISML/isml05/isml0504.html (9033 words)

	Polemic Theology: How to Deal with Those Who Differ from Us
		It seems strange that one should desire to speak at all about Polemic Theology since we are now in an age when folks are more interested in ecumenism and irenics than in polemics.
		Polemic Theology in this respect is simply biblical light focused in such a way as to assist those who appear yet caught in some darkness.
		Christians have wasted a huge amount of ammunition in bombarding areas where their adversaries were not in fact located, but where it was thought they were logically bound to end up.
	www.founders.org /FJ33/article3.html (5876 words)

	Taking Mark's Polemic Seriously
		Taking Mark's Polemic against the Disciples Seriously And now I turn to your position on the purpose of Mark's negative treatment of the disciples, as well as your position on the Markan ending, 16:7-8.
		The polemical purpose of the Gospel is dismissed out of hand and lost on us by virtue of a hermeneutics of revisionism.
		According to Meir Sternberg (_The Poetics of Biblical Narratives_), the rabbis exercised tortured hermeneutical attempts to exonerate David from any suggestion that David in his affair with Bathsheba was guilty of the sin of adultery.
	lists.ibiblio.org /pipermail/gmark/20010717/000643.html (6116 words)

	Pakistan - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Pakistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		However, he pursued a policy of making peace with India, and was assassinated in 1951 by objectors to this policy.
		The period was one of political intrigue and incessant polemic over the Islamic, or even theocratic, nature of Pakistan.
		In 1954, in East Bengal, a United Front party led by H S Suhrawardy, leader of the Awami League, massively defeated the Muslim League, and in 1956 President Iskander Mirza was forced to accept Suhrawardy as prime minister, and the East Pakistan legislature voted for total autonomy, except in foreign affairs.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Pakistan (5721 words)

	RA Cuckoo In The OP Nest (Issue 10)
		Open Polemic has consistently argued that democratic centralism is the most appropriate form for a revolutionary vanguard party both prior to the establishment of a dictatorship of the proletariat and during that dictatorship.
		Open polemic considers that we should not judge history by the action of this or that individual, but rather we should see all human activity within the context of the full complexity of the prevailing socio-economic epoch.
		Open Polemic argues that in the same way that Communists today will have varying interpretations and shades of opinion as to the events of say the English Civil War or the Paris Commune, so we will have to learn to accept differing interpretations on the history of the Soviet Union.
	www.redaction.org /open/ra_cuckoo.html (4931 words)

	Street Knowledge: Conscious Music Blog » Polemic Consortium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Back in the 1990s, groups like Consolidated and Fun^da^mental carried on the tradition well (and damn, if that nasty phone threat from Combat 18 opening Fun^da^mental’s 1994 CD, Seize The Time, wasn’t dope as hell).
		Polemic Consortium, composed of members from Aztlan Underground and Slowrider, put out a disc using works held by the Pacifica Archives.
		Beats are hip-hop-heavy, but you find a few other influences there, including world music and rock.
	www.streetknowledge.net /archives/28 (288 words)

	Splendid Magazine reviews Polemic: Plastic on the Mouth Hole
		The tight interplay between cut-out guitar lines and confident but unremarkable drum patterns favored by Athens, GA's Polemic recalls the math-rock roots of early nineties Chicago and Louisville.
		If anything, Polemic, stuck in a sound that seems closer to 1994 than 2004, would have made a good fit on the short-lived, Montreal-based Derivative imprint (or Merge, if only in their wildest dreams), satisfied to cheer as wildly as fans after their opening set for Polvo or a Pop Narcotic act.
		That would only work if guitarist/songwriter McKenna Mackie toned down her yelps and howls a touch -- the screaming fits that regularly interrupt the assured momentum of the majority of these songs is a disservice to the musicality on display.
	www.splendidezine.com /review.html?reviewid=107495769083004 (264 words)

	Amazon.com: Pain and Polemic: Anti-Judaism in the Gospels (Stimulus Books): Books: George M. Smiga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He finds Mark combining subordinating polemic and silence, Matthew combining abrogating polemic and violence, Luke-Acts also containing abrogating polemic but with sophistication, and John having an abrogating anti-Judaism that universalizes "the Jews" to any persons who deny Christ.
		Smiga suggests that Christians need to repudiate all such polemic and to discern "what in the scriptures is gospel and what is to be understood as conditioned by the circumstances and prejudices of the original authors." This is an important book for religion collections.
		An examination and evaluation of the anti-Jewish polemic in the Gospels as reflected in the scholarly debate over the last 15 years.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0809133555?v=glance (698 words)

	Pylon Polemic No.15
		Thirdly, some of those engaged in the construction and maintenance of the power line are bound to be from outside the area and will give the local community a much needed injection of fresh blood.
		The people of South Gippsland must tear themselves free from the claws of the anti-pylon brigade and welcome the onward march of human progress and the battle against global warming with open arms.
		In Pylon polemic no.17, the former MP Cyril Smith was referred to as "the late former MP", when in fact at the time of writing he was apparently still alive.
	users.tinyonline.co.uk /bigh/bigh/pylonpol1.htm (1096 words)

	Greek Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Parmenides of Elea (born about 511), affirmed the one unchanging existence to be alone true and capable of being conceived, and multitude and change to be an appearance without reality.
		This doctrine was defended by his younger countryman Zeno in a polemic against the common opinion, which sees in things multitude, becoming, and change.
		Zeno propounded a number of celebrated paradoxes, much debated by later philosophers, which try to show that supposing that there is any change or multiplicity leads to contradictions.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/g/greekphi.htm (3899 words)

	polemic - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		polemic : Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
		Polemic : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=polemic (232 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		adjective, also polemical Of or pertaining to a controversy or argument.
		A related word is polemology (the science and study of human conflict and war).] "However, there is unfortunately a degree of `the sky is falling' to this book.
		This tractate is clearly a polemic and a call for action." A. Mark Clarfield; Mixing Politics and Public Health; The Jerusalem Post (Israel); May 8, 2001.
	www.wordsmith.org /awad/archives/0903 (3762 words)

	Nathaniell Basse A Polemic
		This polemic is in response to a letter from Curtis Bass in which he generously shared with me many of the issues and questions surrounding the life of Nathaniell Basse of Jamestown, Virginia (and London, England) in the 1600s.
		In fact, I have never seen such an overwhelming amount of evidence for one man in any of my research (see the References Section at the end of this polemic).
		The only possible stumbling block is the deposition, although an ancestry is determined from a descendant(s) backward and not forward from the family of origin.
	hometown.aol.com /stephaunny/NathanielBasseDebate2.html (15298 words)

	A Hindutva polemic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		If "Robert Zydenbos" refered to me, then this was a pathetic lie.
		But, surprisingly, when I wrote to the Indology List saying that I had never made any such statement, the said Elst actually tried to defend Rajaram in a bizarre polemical exercise.
		Perhaps he did not expect that I made the text of the relevant materials available on the Internet, so that anyone can see the silliness of his and Rajaram's accusations.
	www.angelfire.com /in/zydenbos/laermendepolemik.html (1582 words)

	Polemic and public health -- 169 (3): 181 -- Canadian Medical Association Journal
		Polemic and public health -- 169 (3): 181 -- Canadian Medical Association Journal
		A skeptical view of the risks of second-hand smoke also arose
		recently from a less polemical source: in May, BMJ published
	www.cmaj.ca /cgi/content/full/169/3/181 (622 words)

	1.4. A CASE STUDY IN AIT POLEMIC
		For a case study in anti-AIT polemic, I have chosen the article “An obscurantist argument” by the Dutch-Canadian scholar Robert J. Zydenbos.
		His bona fades is unquestionable, and he represents the majority of AIT-believing scholars in that he merely accepts the predominant opinion without having a political axe to grind, though this makes him susceptible to being influenced by AIT defenders who do have political motives.
		Apart from reading the works of the Indian scholars concerned, I have also privately talked with most of them, and I feel certain that no such “fantasy” is at the back of the anti-AIT polemic.
	voi.org /books/ait/ch14.htm (5256 words)

	Polemic Meaning and Definition
		(a.) Engaged in, or addicted to, polemics, or to controversy; disputations; as, a polemic writer.
		(a.) Of or pertaining to controversy; maintaining, or involving, controversy; controversial; disputative; as, a polemic discourse or essay; polemic theology.
		A, Addicted, Another, Argument, As, Controversial, Controversialist, Controversy, Discourse, Disputant, Disputative, Doctrine, Engaged, Essay, In, Involving, Maintaining, Of, One, Opinion, Opposition, Or, Pertaining, Polemic, Polemics, Skilled, Support, System, Theology, To, Who, Writer,
	en.thinkexist.com /dictionary/meaning/polemic (104 words)

	Laozi (Lao-tzu) [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		These designations are oversimplified textually and arguable, but at least some acknowledgment of where they are located in this textual system may help one understand that some of the passages come from different time periods and have specific polemical agendas.
		Assuming that Lao Tan and Laozi are the same figure and counting the one dialogue in Mixed Ch.
		Later, the work was gradually enlarged and adapted into ten volumes and it became a repository for Daoist polemic against Buddhism.
	www.iep.utm.edu /l/laozi.htm (4906 words)

	Polemic
		I hope you don’t mind if I make a reply to your comment.
		I’ll post our communication on the Polemics page.
		First and foremost, I would like to stress that I am virulently opposed of racism in any form, whether it is majority racism or minority racism.
	www.malleus.net /polemic.htm (3215 words)

	[\| the official polemic faith site \|] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		By entering this site you recognize full responsibility for any mature content that might be within.
		The owners of this site are not responsible for the demoralization of any minor that views this site [The Official Polemic Faith Site].
		The Official Polemic Faith Site © Nishi [Kathy Empie] and Shizume [Ashley McCoy].
	www.polemic-faith.com (80 words)

	www.myspace.com/polemic
		Athens, GA Polemic's Latest Blog Entry [Subscribe to this Blog]
		I spoke to McKenna Mackie for about five minutes (seconds) after Polemic played in Murfreesboro, TN.
		I wanted to sit and talk with her for about a month, but she's a Rawk Staur and had to split.
	www.myspace.com /polemic (495 words)

	Interactivist Info Exchange: Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Info Exchange provides original content and links to important or interesting stories on the net.
		This main page includes featured stories and links to content in the Events, News, Reviews, and Analysis & Polemic sections, and a special section, "At the Brink," dealing with the events of Sept. 11th.
		Not every article posted to the InfoExchange appears on the front page, some will only show up in their section.
	info.interactivist.net /search.pl?topic=16 (610 words)

	Peg's Polemic
		Click here to return to the Philosophy Café
		Peg's Polemic will next be updated early-July 2002
		TPM Online is The Philosophers' Magazine on the net.
	www.philosophers.co.uk /cafe/peg18.htm (910 words)

	New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock AM-AQ
		Even the more standard pop numbers are not without their charm and tricks, especially in the vocal and percussion arrangements, though progressive rock fans will probably be least taken by this album.
		Its single release "Beautiful Red Dress", a debunking of PMS myths and a polemic about women's status in the job market, was one of her more openly political songs, and indicative of her priorities over the next few years.
		When she eventually re-emerged with a new album, the eighties were long over and her approach reflected the change.
	www.gepr.net /am.html (14339 words)

	In Netherlands, Anti-Islamic Polemic Comes With a Price (washingtonpost.com)
		In Netherlands, Anti-Islamic Polemic Comes With a Price (washingtonpost.com)
		In Netherlands, Anti-Islamic Polemic Comes With a Price
		THE HAGUE -- Sometimes the threats come by e-mail.
	washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A52502-2005Jan31.html?... (618 words)

	The Enemy Withi, by Gore Vidal, 10/27/02
		Gore Vidal is America's most controversial writer and a ferocious, often isolated, critic of the Bush administration.
		Here, against a backdrop of spreading unease about America's response to the events of 11 September 2001 and their aftermath, we publish Vidal's remarkable personal polemic urging a shocking new interpretation of who was to blame.
		Bush and the dog that did not bark
	www.ratical.org /ratville/CAH/EnemyWithin.html (8035 words)

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