What Is Rhetorical Theology? Textual Practice and Public Discourse

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Copyright: 10/1/1999

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Considers classical rhetoric, its appropriation by Augustine, and its retrieval in the work of some contemporary theologians.

Don H. Compier is Associate Professor of Theology at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific and a member of the core doctoral faculty of the Graduate Theological Union.

Preface

vii

1. An Introduction to the Rhetorical Tradition

(15)

Is Aristotle the Authority on Rhetoric?

(2)

The Tradition of Roman Oratory

(6)

The Rhetorical Ethos

(2)

The Appropriation of Rhetoric by Christian Theologians

(2)

The Decline of Rhetoric

(3)

2. Theology as Rhetorical Hermeneutics

(13)

Contemporary Theology and the Rhetorical Ethos

(2)

Rhetorical Theology and Philosophical Hermeneutics: David Tracy and His School

(2)

Faithful Persuasion: The Contribution of David Cunningham

(3)

The Power to Speak: Rebecca Chopp's Rhetoric of Liberation

(1)

Rhetorical Hermeneutics Today

(4)

3. Rhetorical Epistemology

(20)

Rhetorical Hermeneutics Revisited

(4)

Nihilism and Liberation

(7)

The Case Against Analytic Method

(5)

The Epistemological Effects of Sin

(3)

4. Rhetorical Hermeneutics and the Christian Doctrine of Sin Today

(22)

The State of Contemporary Theological Reflection on Sin

(1)

The Institutional Context of Theology in North America

(1)

The Virtuosi of Suspicion and Their Critique of Christian Hamartiology

(3)

A Critique of Standard Accounts of Christian Hamartiology

(3)

Toward Hamartiology as Critical Theory

(2)

A Brief Reinterpretation of the Traditions of Christian Hamartiology

(12)

A Concluding Peroration: The Catholicity and Historicity of Theology

(4)

Notes

(24)

Index

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