Rhetoric, religion, and the roots of identity in British colonial America / edited by James R. Andrews.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Andrews, James R. (James Robertson), 1936-

Series:

Rhetorical history of the United States ; v. 1.

A rhetorical history of the United States ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Religious aspects--Christianity.

History.

Rhetoric--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Rhetoric.

United States--Church history--To 1775.

United States.

Church history.

Rhetoric--United States--History.

English language--United States--Rhetoric.

English language.

Rhetoric--Religious aspects--Christianity--History.

English language--Religious aspects--Christianity--History.

Christian literature, American--History and criticism.

Christian literature, American.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 372 pages ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2007]

Summary:

Volume 1 of the Rhetorical History of the United States series probes formal and ideational aspects of colonial rhetoric to illuminate textual/contextual interactions and their enduring implications for American rhetoric. Topics such as millennialism, religious freedom and toleration, covenant theology, revivalism, and the British heritage of American colonial rhetoric are explored. By examining sermons, forensic speaking, theological treatise, literary traditions, prayers, poems, and other rhetorical artifacts, these essays help to illuminate the sources of American identity as that identity was formed through the theory and practice of rhetoric.

Contents:

Introduction : roots of an "American" rhetoric / James R. Andrews

Errand into mercy : rhetoric, identity, and community in John Winthrop's "Modell of Christian charity" / Stephen Howard Browne

The rhetoric of Puritan biblical commentaries : John Cotton's A briefe exposition with practical observations upon the whole book of Ecclesiastes / Thomas H. Olbricht

Puritan rhetoric and America's civil religion : a study of three special occasion sermons / Ronald F. Reid

Roger Williams, religious liberty, and the Massachusetts Bay : a rhetorical history perspective / L. Raymond Camp

The trials of Anne Hutchinson / William E. Wiethof

Among friends : establishing an oratorical tradition among Quaker women in the early colonial era / Linda J. Webster

Thou art but a youth : Thomas Chalkley enacts and defends the early Quaker impromptu sermon / Michael P. Graves

Jonathan Edwards, the Great Awakening and "Sinners in the hands of an angry God" / John C. Adams and Stephen R. Yarbrough

Rhetoric and religion in colonial Virginia : from the Great Awakening to the Declaration of Independence / C. Jan Swearingen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-348) and index.

ISBN:

9780870137822

0870137824

OCLC:

77004170