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Rhetoric and reality in early Christianities / Willi Braun, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in Christianity and Judaism ; 16.
- Studies in Christianity and Judaism = Etudes sur le christianisme et le judaisme ; 16
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Persuasion (Rhetoric)--Religious aspects--Christianity--History.
- Persuasion (Rhetoric).
- Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
- Church history.
- Rhetoric, Ancient.
- Persuasion (Rhetoric)--Social aspects--Mediterranean Region.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (275 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Waterloo, Ont. : Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/Corporation canadienne des sciences religieuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- One of the most pressing issues for scholars of religion concerns the role of persuasion in early Christianities and other religions in Greco-Roman antiquity. The essays in Rhetoric and Reality in Early Christianities explore questions about persuasion and its relationship to early Christianities. The contributors theorize about persuasion as the effect of verbal performances, such as argumentation in accordance with rules of rhetoric, or as a result of other types of performance: ritual, behavioural, or imagistic. They discuss the relationship between the verbal performance of rhet
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Contributors; 1 Rhetoric, Rhetoricality, and Discourse Performances; 2 The Rhetoric of Social Construction: Language and Society in the Gospel of Thomas; 3 Melito of Sardis, the Second Sophistic, and ""Israel""; 4 Early Christian Heroes and Lukan Narrative: Stephen and the Hellenists in Ancient Historiographical Perspective; 5 Can Nympha Rule This House? The Rhetoric of Domesticity in Colossians; 6 ""Raised from the Dung"": Hagiography, Liberation, and the Social Subversiveness of Early Medieval Christianity
- 7 Philosophical Counsel versus Customary Lament in Fourth-Century Christian Responses to Death8 Performativity, Narrative, and Cognition: ""Demythologizing"" the Roman Cult of Mithras; 9 Feeling Persuaded: Christianization as Social Formation; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610280797
- 9781280280795
- 1280280794
- 9780889209138
- 0889209138
- 9781423743026
- 1423743024
- OCLC:
- 753479467
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