| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 425 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
Annotation This exceptional collection of writings offers for the first time a discussion among leading thinkers about the points at which rhetoric and religion illuminate and challenge each other. Together these selections shed light on religion as a human quest and rhetoric as the origin and sustainer of that quest. Book jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Rhetoric -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Rhetoric -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- General.
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Rhetoric -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Rhetoric -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
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Rhetorik
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Christentum
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Judentum
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Retorica.
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Godsdienstfilosofie.
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Godsdienstwetenschap.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jost, Walter, 1951-
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Olmsted, Wendy, 1943-
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| ISBN |
9780300147520 |
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030014752X |
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0300080565 |
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9780300080568 |
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