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Disputation meaning
The act of disputing; a dispute or argument. | A rhetorical exercise in which parties reason in opposition to each other over a belief or proposition.
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In 1263, King James I of Spain ordered the Ramban to debate with apostate Pablo Christiani at a disputation in Barcelona.
As far back as the 13th century, Nicholas Donin, a Jewish convert to Christianity in France, played a key role in putting the Talmud on trial in the “Disputation of Paris” in 1240, resulting in a decree to burn copies of the religious manuscript.
We don’t yet know whether Kagan and Gorsuch wrangled over the language of the opinion, though such disputation wouldn’t be out of character for either.
As an uncompromising preacher, he hurled disputation and contradiction to the faces of his opponents.
Because of the disagreements, Zwingli decided to boycott the disputation.
During the first Zurich disputation in 1523, he denied that an actual sacrifice occurred during the mass, arguing that Christ made the sacrifice only once and for all eternity.
First Disputation On 3 January 1523, the Zurich city council invited the clergy of the city and outlying region to a meeting to allow the factions to present their opinions.
He went on to Louvain University (MA in 1465), where he won renown for the purity of his Latin and for his skill in disputation.
His faithful wife Claudine had died childless in 1588, a few days before he went to the Bern Disputation.
In a student disputation, he defended heliocentrism from both a theoretical and theological perspective, maintaining that the Sun was the principal source of motive power in the universe.
In the classroom and in writing, it often takes the form of explicit disputation ; a topic drawn from the tradition is broached in the form of a question, opponents' responses are given, a counterproposal is argued and opponents' arguments rebutted.
In this case, the teacher responded and the students rebutted;sfn on the following day the teacher, having used notes taken during the disputation, summarised all arguments and presented his final position, riposting all rebuttals.
I pursued my study in depth and learned the give-and-take of disputation.
Maximus the Confessor, in his Disputation with Pyrrhus, interprets the statement "one will" as referring the integrity of Christ's human will, in contrast to the fallen human will which seeks diverse and contradictory goods.
Remains Caius in his Disputation Against Proclus (198 AD) mentions this of the places in which the remains of the apostles Peter and Paul were deposited: "I can point out the trophies of the apostles.
The Buddha discouraged his followers from indulging in intellectual disputation for its own sake, which is fruitless, and distracts one from the goal of awakening.
The city council decided to work out the matter of images in a second disputation.
The disputation between Eck and Karlstadt began at Leipzig on 27 June 1519.
The disputation led to the condemnation of the Talmud and the burning of thousands of copies.
The disputation started on 26 October 1523 and lasted two days.