Meanings of public disputation in English

The public disputation began, but the attention of the audience was elsewhere.

Martin Luther, the strenuous, the impulsive, the bold, quickly writes a challenge in wrath to public disputation.

In 799, at Aachen, he held a public disputation on Adoptionism with Felix, Bishop of Urgel, who was wholly vanquished.

The great Goliath of controversy in that day was Doctor Eck, who challenged the Saxon monk to a public disputation at Leipsic.

Among these were two preachers of some celebrity, pillars of Protestantism, who defied him to answer their arguments in a public disputation.

One of the latter however, Strigel, supported Pfeffinger, and a public disputation was held at Gotha under the presidency of Duke John Frederick.

She also caused a bishop of her nomination and creed to challenge Ambrose to a public disputation in her palace on the points in question.

The latter, meeting Eck at Augsburg in October, arranged with him for a public disputation in which Eck and Carlstadt could fight the matter out.

Public disputations could not be held in a corner.

For days her scholarly mind is entertained with public disputations, relieved at intervals by theatrical shows.

Both these teachers are depicted as the successful heroes of public disputations in which the interest at stake was considerable.

"For twenty years, more or less, I have presided at the public disputations in the Sala del Claustro of our University."

2: That law forbade those public disputations about the faith, which arise from doubting the faith, but not those which are for the safeguarding thereof.