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Polemic (/pəˈlɛmɪk/) is
contentious rhetoric intended to
support a
specific position by
forthright claims and to
undermine the
opposing position. The practice...
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Thomas Lupton (fl. 1572–1584) was an
English polemical writer of the
reign of
Elizabeth I. His two-part work
Siuqila of 1580–1
could be
described as "the...
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Richard Sheldon (died 1642?) was a
Church of
England clergyman, a
convert from Catholicism,
known as a
polemical writer. From a
Catholic family, and destined...
- John
Rogers (1679–1729) was an
English clergyman. The son of John Rogers,
vicar of Eynsham, Oxford, he was born there. He was
educated at New
College School...
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Thomas Lewis (1689–in or
after 1737) was an
English cleric,
noted as a
vitriolic High
Church writer of the
Bangorian controversy. The son of
Stephen Lewis...
- John
Hamilton (c.1547–1611) was a
Scottish Catholic controversial writer,
Rector of the
University of Paris, and
prominent supporter of the
Catholic League...
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Samuel Richardson (fl. 1646) was an
English layman and
religious controversialist of the 1640s and 1650s, of
Baptist views. From Northamptonshire, Richardson...
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William Clagett (1646–1688) was an
English clergyman,
known as a
controversialist.
William Clagett was the
eldest son of
Nicholas Clagett the Elder, a...
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Bainbridge or Bembridge) D.D. (1636–1703), was an
English Protestant controversialist.
Bainbrigg was the son of
Richard and Rose Bainbrigg, born at Cambridge...
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George Ashwell (1612 – 1694) was an
Anglican polemic controversialist.
Ashwell was born in the
parish of St.
Martin Ludgate, 8
November 1612. He was the...
