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Rhetorical invention and religious inquiry : new perspectives / edited by Walter Jost and Wendy Olmsted.

Contributor(s): Jost, Walter, 1951- | Olmsted, Wendy, 1943-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Description: vi, 425 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0300080573 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0300080565 (hardcover : alk. paper)Other title: Rhetorical invention & religious inquiry [Spine title]Subject(s): Rhetoric -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Rhetoric -- Religious aspects -- JudaismDDC classification: 230/.01 LOC classification: BR115.R55 | R44 2000Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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