Rhetorical invention and religious inquiry : new perspectives
This collection of writings offers a discussion among leading thinkers about the points at which rhetoric and religion illuminate and challenge each other. The contributors are theorists and critics in rhetoric, theology and religion, and they address a variety of problems and periods.
vi, 425 pages ; 25 cm
9780300080568, 9780300080575, 0300080565, 0300080573
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The word as history: sacred and profane / Walter J. Ong
Kenneth Burke's religious rhetoric: "God terms" and the ontological proof / Wayne C. Booth
The philosophical foundations of sacred rhetoric / Debora K. Shuger
Invention, emotion, and conversion in Augustine's Confessions / Wendy Olmsted
Rhetorical theology: charity seeking charity / Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle
Rhetoric, conscience, and the claim of religion / Walter Jost
Erasmus: rhetorical theologian / Manfred Hoffmann
Naming God / Paul Ricoeur
Prophetic rhetoric and mystical rhetoric / David Tracy
Apophatic analogy: on the language of mystical unknowing and being-toward-death / Thomas A. Carlson
Machiavellian rhetoric in Paradise lost / Victoria Kahn
Rhetoric, ideology, and idolatry in the writings of Emmanuel Levinas / Susan E. Shapiro
Theological reflections on the hyperbolic imagination / Stephen H. Webb
Koinonia and the friendship between rhetoric and religion / Kathy Eden
Picturing God: the rhetoric of religious images and Caravaggio's Conversion of Saint Paul / Stephen Happel
The rhetoric of philosemitism / Mark Krupnick
Performing faith: the peaceable rhetoric of God's church / James Fodor and Stanley Hauerwas
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