His writings are numerous, alike in exegetical, polemical, dogmatic and practical theology. However, academic crusade historians now consider it dated, polemical, derivative, tendentious and misleading. Kant defined this polemical use as the defense against dogmatic negations. Yet there should be no dogmatic polemical use of reason. Dowd's columns are distinguished by an acerbic, often polemical writing style. Polemical writings were common in medieval and early modern times. The more strictly polemical writings cover every period of his life. It is, states Berger, not a "philosophical or polemical" text. What is known of Sabellius is drawn mostly from the polemical writings of his opponents. It evoked a flood of caricatures, sarcastic comments and polemical attacks in the press. Several Czechoslovak statesmen encouraged such expulsions with polemical speeches. Finkelstein's advocates and detractors alike have remarked on his polemical style. In the century following his death, polemical literature and sectarian killings increased. But behind the plot, there is hidden a robust sarcastic and polemical motivation. He also found their approach overly polemical and polarizing.