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1 online resource (xi, 257 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in Christianity and Judaism = Études sur le christianisme et le judaïsme ; 16 |
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Studies in Christianity and Judaism ; 16.
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| Contents |
Rhetoric, rhetoricality, and discourse performances / Willi Braun -- The rhetoric of social construction: language and society in the Gospel of Thomas / William E. Arnal -- Melito of Sardis, the second sophistic, and "Israel" / Laurence Broadhurst -- Early Christian heroes and Lukan narrative: Stephen and the Hellenists in ancient historiographical perspective / Todd Penner -- Can Nympha rule this house? The rhetoric of domesticity in Colossians / Margaret Y. MacDonald -- "Raised from the dung": hagiography, liberation, and the social subversiveness of early Medieval Christianity / John Kitchen -- Philosophical counsel versus customary lament in fourth-century Christian responses to death / Theodore S. de Bruyn -- Performativity, narrativity, and cognition: "demythologizing" the Roman cult of Mithras / Luther H. Martin -- Feeling persuaded: Christianization as social formation / Chad Kile |
| Summary |
One of the most pressing issues for scholars of religion concerns the role of persuasion in early Christianities and other religions in Greco-Roman antiquity. The essays in Rhetoric and Reality in Early Christianities explore questions about persuasion and its relationship to early Christianities. The contributors theorize about persuasion as the effect of verbal performances, such as argumentation in accordance with rules of rhetoric, or as a result of other types of performance: ritual, behavioural, or imagistic. They discuss the relationship between the verbal performance of rhetoric and o |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Persuasion (Rhetoric) -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History
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Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
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Rhetoric, Ancient.
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Persuasion (Rhetoric) -- Social aspects -- Mediterranean Region
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RELIGION -- Christian Church -- History.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
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Church history -- Primitive and early church
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Rhetoric, Ancient
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Frühchristentum
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Rhetorik
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Vroege kerk.
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Retorica.
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Mediterranean Region
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Braun, Willi, 1954-
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Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion.
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| ISBN |
1423743024 |
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9781423743026 |
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0889204624 |
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9780889204621 |
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9780889209138 |
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0889209138 |
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1280280794 |
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9781280280795 |
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