Christian Discourses
Author | : Søren Kierkegaard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : Christian life |
ISBN | : 9780783719450 |
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Author | : Søren Kierkegaard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : Christian life |
ISBN | : 9780783719450 |
Author | : Averil Cameron |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2023-09-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780520915503 |
Many reasons can be given for the rise of Christianity in late antiquity and its flourishing in the medieval world. In asking how Christianity succeeded in becoming the dominant ideology in the unpromising circumstances of the Roman Empire, Averil Cameron turns to the development of Christian discourse over the first to sixth centuries A.D., investigating the discourse's essential characteristics, its effects on existing forms of communication, and its eventual preeminence. Scholars of late antiquity and general readers interested in this crucial historical period will be intrigued by her exploration of these influential changes in modes of communication. The emphasis that Christians placed on language—writing, talking, and preaching—made possible the formation of a powerful and indeed a totalizing discourse, argues the author. Christian discourse was sufficiently flexible to be used as a public and political instrument, yet at the same time to be used to express private feelings and emotion. Embracing the two opposing poles of logic and mystery, it contributed powerfully to the gradual acceptance of Christianity and the faith's transformation from the enthusiasm of a small sect to an institutionalized world religion.
Author | : Sharon Crowley |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2006-04-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0822973006 |
Toward a Civil Discourse examines how, in the current political climate, Americans find it difficult to discuss civic issues frankly and openly with one another. Because America is dominated by two powerful discourses—liberalism and Christian fundamentalism, each of which paints a very different picture of America and its citizens' responsibilities toward their country-there is little common ground, and hence Americans avoid disagreement for fear of giving offence. Sharon Crowley considers the ancient art of rhetoric as a solution to the problems of repetition and condemnation that pervade American public discourse. Crowley recalls the historic rhetorical concept of stasis—where advocates in a debate agree upon the point on which they disagree, thereby recognizing their opponent as a person with a viable position or belief. Most contemporary arguments do not reach stasis, and without it, Crowley states, a nonviolent resolution cannot occur.Toward a Civil Discourse investigates the cultural factors that lead to the formation of beliefs, and how beliefs can develop into densely articulated systems and political activism. Crowley asserts that rhetorical invention (which includes appeals to values and the passions) is superior in some cases to liberal argument (which often limits its appeals to empirical fact and reasoning) in mediating disagreements where participants are primarily motivated by a moral or passionate commitment to beliefs.Sharon Crowley examines numerous current issues and opposing views, and discusses the consequences to society when, more often than not, argumentative exchange does not occur. She underscores the urgency of developing a civil discourse, and through a review of historic rhetoric and its modern application, provides a foundation for such a discourse-whose ultimate goal, in the tradition of the ancients, is democratic discussion of civic issues.
Author | : Vernon K. Robbins |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2002-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134826672 |
In this original study, Vernon Robbins expounds and develops his system of socio-rhetorical criticism, bringing together social-scientific and literary-critical approaches to explore early Christianity.
Author | : Younhee Kim |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9783039107339 |
This book critically examines David Tracy's well-known methodology of fundamental theology, namely his revisionist model as developed in his Blessed Rage for Order (1975), together with his methodological shifts through the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. It explores how successful he has been in constructing a methodology for the public theological discourse that he deems so necessary. More particularly, this book asks how serviceable this methodology is for articulating Christian discourse in an intelligible and public way in the contemporary context of religious plurality.
Author | : Vernon Kay Robbins |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780415139984 |
In this original study, Vernon Robbins expounds and develops his system of socio-rhetorical criticism, bringing together social-scientific and literary-critical approaches to explore early Christianity.The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse first establishes a concept of culture and then combines it with Geertz' anthropological concept of 'thick description'. Subsequently, the relation of texts to society and culture is discussed. In this manner, multiple methods of interpretation are used in an organized and programmatic way, allowing the reader distinctly new insights into the development of early Christianity.In this original study, Vernon Robbins expounds and develops his system of socio-rhetorical criticism, bringing together social-scientific and literary-critical approaches to explore early Christanity. This book investigates Christianity as a cultural phenomenon, and treats its canonical texts as ideological constructs.
Author | : Nathan G. Jennings |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Asceticism |
ISBN | : 9781433109904 |
Nathan G. Jennings's captivating study explores the ascetical logic of the various practices that Christians call theology. By establishing ascetic practice as coherent within the logic of Christian thought, Jennings argues that Christian theology itself, as an embodied Christian practice, is a type of and participant in Christian asceticism. Jennings establishes that the implications of such an understanding of Christian theology can be brought to bear on modern Christian scholarship in profound and transformative ways. With engagements and references that span a vast terrain from Patristic authors to modern systematic theologians, Theology as Ascetic Act: Disciplining Christian Discourse is a significant contribution to both modern Christian thought and the study of asceticism.
Author | : Ian T. Ramsey |
Publisher | : London ; New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Atonement |
ISBN | : |
Lectures delivered at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, November 5-7, 1963. Bibliographical footnotes.
Author | : Istvan Czachesz |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2014-10-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317544056 |
Early Christian apocryphal and conical documents present us with grotesque images of the human body, often combining the playful and humorous with the repulsive, and fearful. First to third century Christian literature was shaped by the discourse around and imagery of the human body. This study analyses how the iconography of bodily cruelty and visceral morality was produced and refined from the very start of Christian history. The sources range across Greek comedy, Roman and Jewish demonology, and metamorphosis traditions. The study reveals how these images originated, were adopted, and were shaped to the service of a doctrinally and psychologically persuasive Christian message.