Rhetorical Invention and Religious Inquiry / Michael Murray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murray, Michael, Author.

Contributor:

Jost, Walter, 1951-

Olmsted, Wendy, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Rhetoric.

Rhetoric--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 425 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2000]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This exceptional collection of writings offers for the first time a discussion among leading thinkers about the points at which rhetoric and religion illuminate and challenge each other. The contributors to the volume are eminent theorists and critics in rhetoric, theology, and religion, and they address a variety of problems and periods.Together these writings shed light on religion as a human quest and rhetoric as the origin and sustainer of that quest. They show that when pursued with intelligence and sensitivity, rhetorical approaches to religion are capable of revitalizing both language and experience. Rhetorical figures, for example, constitute forms of language that say what cannot be said in any other way, and that move individuals toward religious truths that cannot be known in any other way. When firmly placed within religious, social, and literary history, the convergence of rhetoric and religion brings into focus crucial issues in several fields-including philosophy, psychology, history, and art-and interprets relations among self, language, and world that are central to both past and present cultures.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

I. The Word as History: Sacred and Profane

2. Kenneth Burke's Religious Rhetoric: "God-Terms" and the Ontological Proof

Appendix

3. The Philosophical Foundations of Sacred Rhetoric

4. Invention, Emotion, and Conversion in Augustine's Confessions

5. Rhetorical Theology: Charity Seeking Charity

6. Rhetoric, Conscience, and the Claim of Religion

7. Erasmus: Rhetorical Theologian

8 Naming God

9. Prophetic Rhetoric and Mystical Rhetoric

10. Apophatic Analogy: On the Language of Mystical Unknowing and Being-Toward-Death,

12. Rhetoric, Ideology, and Idolatry in the Writings of Emmanuel Levinas

13. Theological Reflections on the Hyperbolic Imagination

14. Koinonia and the Friendship Between Rhetoric and Religion

15. Picturing God: The Rhetoric of Religious Images and Caravaggio's Conversion of Saint Paul

16. The Rhetoric of Philosemitism

17. Performing Faith: The Peaceable Rhetoric of God's Church

Contributors

Acknowledgment3s

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300147520

030014752X

OCLC:

861792903