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Rhetoric, Power, and Community

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  • Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
  • 15 x 22.7 x 1.3 cm

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Rhetoric has returned vigorously to the agenda of a number of academic disciplines. Aristotle defended the art of rhetoric, while Plato was suspicious of its manipulative power to persuade. This study examines rhetoric in the context of different kinds of religious texts, from sacred scripture, to liturgy, to contemporary and postmodern writing and religion. How does the believing community negotiate rhetorical power-games which may be exercised upon it, and do we have to be bold to see the ironies and the joke which may be played upon us in the name of the truth of religion? This book is an exercise in rhetoric which is itself suspicious of the rhetorical arts. Its concerns are profoundly theological, though perhaps offensive to theology as it is often practiced in the church and the academy. It offers no conclusion, but perhaps a way of exploring and of looking afresh.
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The Autism of GxdRhetoric, Power, and Community

  • Title

    Rhetoric, Power, and Community

  • Author

    David Jasper

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Wipf & Stock Publishers

  • Published

    June 2009

  • Weight

    250g

  • Dimensions

    15 x 22.7 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9781606088319

  • ISBN-10

    1606088319

  • Eden Code

    4883279

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