Renovating Rhetoric in Christian Tradition.

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.

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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