Rhetorical Invention and Religious Inquiry. New Perspectives. - JOST, WALTER|WENDY OLMSTED
New Perspectives
KORTE INHOUD
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...
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2000Uitgever: Yale University Press432 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0300080573ISBN-13: 9780300080575Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original publisher's black paperback, white title spine & frontcover, 8vo: vi, 426pp., introduction, 17 contributions with notes & references, list contributors, acknowledgements, index, table of contents. Very fine copy - as new. New Haven-London, Yale University Press. 2000 [Auteur: JOST, WALTER/WENDY OLMSTED] [Jaar: 2000] [Titel: Rhetorical Invention and Religious Inquiry. New Perspectives.]
