TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lei,Elizabeth Vander
AU  - Amorose,Thomas
AU  - Daniell,Beth
AU  - Gere,Anne Ruggles
TI  - Renovating Rhetoric in Christian Tradition
T2  - Composition, Literacy, and Culture Series
SN  - 9780822979593
AV  - BR115 
U1  - 261.5/8 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - PIttsburgh
PB  - University of Pittsburgh Press
KW  - Rhetoric-Religious aspects-Christianity
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Rise of Christian Sects -- 1. Constructing Devout Feminists: A Mormon Case -- 2. A Rhetoric of Opposition: The Seventh-Day Adventist Church and the Sabbath Tradition -- The Rise of Female Rhetors -- 3. Preaching from the Pulpit Steps: Mary Bosanquet Fletcher and Women's Preaching in Early Methodism -- 4. "With the Tongue of [Wo]men and Angels": Apostolic Rhetorical Practices Among Religious Women -- 5. Rhetorical Strategies in Protestant Women's Missions: Appropriating and Subverting Gender Ideals -- The Rise of Academic Concern about American Christian Fundamentalism -- 6. "Attentive, Intelligent, Reasonable, and Responsible": Teaching Composition with Bernard Lonergan -- 7."Ain't We Got Fun?": Teaching Writing in a Violent World -- 8. A Question of Truth: Reading the Bible, Rhetoric, and Christian Tradition -- Rhetoric in Christian Tradition -- 9. The Jewish Context of Paul's Rhetoric -- 10. Resistance to Rhetoric in Christian Tradition -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index
N2  - Throughout history, people have appropriated and reconstructed rhetorical and religious resources to create effective arguments. In the process, they have remade both themselves and their communities. This volume offers notable examples of these reconstructions, ranging from arguments that occurred during the formation of Christianity to contemporary arguments about the relationship of religious and academic ways of knowing
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