Renovating rhetoric in Christian tradition / edited by Elizabeth Vander Lei, Thomas Amorose, Beth Daniell, and Anne Ruggles Gere.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vander Lei, Elizabeth, editor.

Amorose, Thomas, editor.

Daniell, Beth, editor.

Gere, Anne Ruggles, editor.

Series:

Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.

Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Rhetoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Throughout history, determined individuals have appropriated and reconstructed rhetorical and religious resources to create effective arguments. In the process, they have remade both themselves and their communities. This edited volume offers notable examples of these reconstructions, ranging from the formation of Christianity to questions about the relationship of religious and academic ways of knowing.The initial chapters explore historic challenges to Christian doctrines and gender roles. Contributors examine Mormon women's campaigns for the recognition of their sect, women's suffrage, and the statehood of Utah; the Seventh-day Adventist challenge to the mainstream designation of Sunday as the Sabbath; a female minister who confronted the gendered tenets of early Methodism and created her own sacred spaces; women who, across three centuries, fashioned an apostolic voice of humble authority rooted in spiritual conversion; and members of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who redefined notions of women's intellectual capacity and appropriate fields for work from the Civil War through World War II.Considering contemporary learning environments, other contributors explore resources that can help faculty and students of composition and rhetoric consider more fully the relations of religion and academic work. These contributors call upon the work of theologians, philosophers, and biblical scholars to propose strategies for building trust through communication.The final chapters examine the writings of Apostle Paul and his use of Jewish forms of argumentation and provide an overarching discussion of how the Christian tradition has resisted rhetorical renovation, and in the process, missed opportunities to renovate spiritual belief.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822979593

0822979594

OCLC:

876088610