Obviously, these claims do not make for irenic relations with adherents to those religions they have improved and replaced. |
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Always willing to engage in serious, even fierce, political debate, Jim Finn was as well an irenic man and a hospitable one. |
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Written in a sympathetic and irenic spirit, this book echoes a striking number of the same criticisms of the current Roman exercise of primacy. |
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Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the Bishop's irenic tone in this volatile situation. |
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So the Church, recognising that its irenic precepts were largely ignored, tried to reduce the savagery of war. |
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He therefore has much less of the baggage that converts often bring, and he is able to write in a largely irenic and fraternal manner. |
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Yet more surprising than such relevance is the irenic quality of this advice seeking a hospitable engagement with neighbors of other faiths. |
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The report's irenic and tentative tone, and the complete absence of bullet points in its text, should dispel any such misimpressions. |
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The generation of peace after 1871 rested on Germany's irenic temper, served in turn by Bismarck's statesmanship. |
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Reimer supports Rawlyk's idea that Canadian evangelicalism is more irenic than its U.S. counterpart, but calls for real data to support the thesis. |
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His presentation is at once inventive, venturesome, and irenic. |
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Here and elsewhere, Marpeck drew conclusions that contrast with the irenic and tolerant image of Marpeck that Blough prefers. |
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Religious papers in those days were much more bellicostic than today, and no spirit of irenic ecumenism prevailed. |
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In fact, the irenic institutions in which Ockenga and Graham were engaged received the same polemic as did the World and National Councils. |
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His entire career, in fact, was marked by an irenic spirit. |
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Its central emphasis was a practical concern for human salvation and for as irenic a settlement of the conflict as was possible without sacrificing that concern. |
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The philosophes contrasted their own irenic calls for tolerance with the church's historical record as the perennial source of cruelty and fanaticism. |
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In pursuing that end, however, he can be less than irenic, even caustic. |
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