On the uses of argumentative reason in religious polemics / M. Dascal -- The noble art of self-defence : Schleiermacher and Von Clausewitz on theological polemics and the theory of warfare / T.L. Hettema -- A question of violence : Ashurnasirpal II's ninurta temple inscription as a religious polemic / B.N. Porter -- Zoroastrian religious polemics and their contexts : interconfessional relations in the Sasanian empire / A.F. de Jong -- Comment on the lecture of A.F. de Jong / T.H.J. Clemens -- The apology of Al-Kindi / P.S. van Koningsveld -- Dialogue with other faiths as an aspect of Islamic theology / D. Thomas -- Islamic anti-Christian polemics in the west. an exploration and typological approach to a contemporary religious phenomenon / S. Abdel Razaq -- Rabbi Kemper's case for Christianity in his Matthew commentary, with reference to exegesis / M. Eskhult -- The triune and the decaune God : Christianity and Kabbalah as objects of Jewish polemics, with special reference to Meir ben Simeon of Narbonne's Nfilhemet Mitzva / A. Goshen-Gottstein. The polemic of Biblical monotheism : outsider context and insider referentiality in second Isaiah / M.S. Smith -- Religious polemics in exile : the creator God of Genesis 1 / L.C. Jonker -- Jeremiah 44 : a dispute on history and religion / B.E.J.H. Becking -- Who let grain, grapes and olives grow? Hosea's polemics against the Yahwists of Israel / W. Boshoff -- The function of religious polemics : the case of the revelations of John versus the imperial cult / H.J. de Jonge -- A response to H.J. de Jonge / G.G. de Kruijf -- The gospel of Mark as polemic : the persecution of the Markan Christian community and the purpose of Mark's gospel / H.N. Roskam -- Pour une histoire de la separation entre les communautes "chretiennes" et les communautes "pharisiennes" (ca. 70-135 de notre ere) / S.C. Mimouni -- The demonization of the opponent in early Christian literature / J. Verheyden -- Co-operation between church and state in the condemnation of the Pelagians / M. Lamberigts. Polemics, apologetics, and dialogue as forms of interreligious communication between Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Middle Ages / W.G.B.M. Valkenberg -- Religious polemics and ritual in early modern Germany's confessional churches / B. Nischan -- Ways of polemicizing : the power of tradition in Christian polemics / E.G.E. van der Wall -- Ethics or dogmatics? the case of "Rendtorff vs Barth" / D.N. Stegeman -- The social importance of religious polemics / M.B. ter Borg -- On the way together : the ups and downs of two Protestant churches trying to reunite / W.J. van Noort -- Authority in question : tools for analysis of a controversy on "religion" in Dutch pluralist society after the Second World War / J.O. van de Breevaart -- Anti-ecumenical polemics and the creation of the United Church of Canada (1902-1925) / P.W. Staples.