Rhetorical Invention and Religious Inquiry: New Perspectives by Walter Jost (Eng

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This collection of writings offers a discussion among leading thinkers about the points at which rhetoric and religion illuminate and challenge each other. The contributors are theorists and critics in rhetoric, theology and religion, and they address a variety of problems and periods.

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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.

Author Biography

Walter Jost is associate professor of English at the University of Virginia. Wendy Olmsted is associate professor, Humanities Division, Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World and the College, University of Chicago. Jost coedited, and both he and Olmsted contributed to, Rhetoric and Hermeneutics in Our Time, published by Yale University Press.

Details ISBN0300080573 Short Title RHETORICAL INVENTION & RELIGIO Publisher Yale University Press Language English ISBN-10 0300080573 ISBN-13 9780300080575 Media Book Format Paperback Illustrations Yes Year 2000 Imprint Yale University Press Subtitle New Perspectives Edited by Walter Jost Birth 1951 Place of Publication New Haven Country of Publication United States Author Wendy Olmsted DOI 10.1604/9780300080575 AU Release Date 2000-08-11 NZ Release Date 2000-08-11 US Release Date 2000-08-11 UK Release Date 2000-08-11 Pages 432 Publication Date 2000-08-11 DEWEY 210 Audience Undergraduate We've got this

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