Everything about Controversy totally explained
A
controversy or
dispute occurs when parties actively disagree,
argue about, or
debate, a matter of
opinion. Controversies can range in size from
private disputes between two
individuals to large-scale disagreements between
societies.
Perennial areas of controversy include
religion,
philosophy and
politics. Controversy in matters of
theology has traditionally been particularly heated, giving rise to the phrase
odium theologicum. Controversial issues are held as potentially divisive in a given society, because they can lead to tension and ill will. Some controversies are considered
taboo to many people, unless a society can find a common ground to share and discuss its people's
feelings on a certain controversial issue.
Benford's law of controversy, as expressed by
science-fiction author
Gregory Benford in 1980, states "
Passion is
inversely proportional to the amount of real
information available."
In law
In
the theory of law, a controversy differs from a
legal case; while the latter includes all suits,
criminal as well as
civil, a controversy is a purely civil proceeding.
For example, the
Case or Controversy Clause of
Article Three of the United States Constitution (Clause 1) states that "the judicial Power shall extend ... to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party". This clause has been deemed to impose a requirement that United States federal courts are not permitted to hear cases that don't pose an actual controversy—that is, an actual dispute between adverse parties which is capable of being resolved by the
court. In addition to setting out the scope of the jurisdiction of the federal judiciary, it also prohibits courts from issuing
advisory opinions, or from hearing cases that are either
unripe, meaning that the controversy hasn't arisen yet, or
moot, meaning that the controversy has already been resolved.
Amount in controversy is a term in United States
civil procedure to denote a requirement that persons seeking to bring a
lawsuit in a particular court must be for a certain minimum amount before that court may hear the case.
In early Christianity
Many of the early
Christian writers, among them
Irenaeus,
Athanasius, and
Jerome, were famed as "controversialists"; they wrote works against perceived
heresy or heretical individuals, works whose titles begin "Adversus..." such as Irenaeus'
Adversus haereses. The Christian writers inherited from the classical
rhetors the conviction that controversial confrontations, even over trivial matters, were a demonstration of intellectual superiority. See
Christian theological controversy.
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