Rhetoric and reality in early Christianities
Braun, Willi
Rhetoric and reality in early Christianities - Waterloo Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2005 - xi, 257 24 cm - Studies in Christianity and Judaism, 16. .
Annotation Explores questions about persuasion and its relationship to early Christianities. The essays cover a wide chronological range and diverse topical examples. Annotation These essays explore questions about persuasion and its relationship to early Christianities. The contributors theorize about persuasion as the effect of verbal performances, such as argumentation in accordance with rules of rhetoric, or as a result of other types of performance: ritual, behavioural, or imagistic.
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Persuasion (Rhetoric) -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History. Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. Rhetoric, Ancient. Persuasion (Rhetoric) -- Social aspects -- Mediterranean Region. Église -- Histoire -- ca 30-600 (Église primitive) Persasion (Rhétorique) -- Aspects religieux -- Christianisme. Rhétorique ancienne. Persuasion (Rhétorique) -- Aspect social -- Méditerranée, Région de la. RELIGION -- Christian Church -- History. RELIGION -- Christianity -- History. Church history -- Primitive and early church Rhetoric, Ancient Mediterranean Region
Rhetoric and reality in early Christianities - Waterloo Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2005 - xi, 257 24 cm - Studies in Christianity and Judaism, 16. .
Annotation Explores questions about persuasion and its relationship to early Christianities. The essays cover a wide chronological range and diverse topical examples. Annotation These essays explore questions about persuasion and its relationship to early Christianities. The contributors theorize about persuasion as the effect of verbal performances, such as argumentation in accordance with rules of rhetoric, or as a result of other types of performance: ritual, behavioural, or imagistic.
0889204624
Persuasion (Rhetoric) -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History. Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. Rhetoric, Ancient. Persuasion (Rhetoric) -- Social aspects -- Mediterranean Region. Église -- Histoire -- ca 30-600 (Église primitive) Persasion (Rhétorique) -- Aspects religieux -- Christianisme. Rhétorique ancienne. Persuasion (Rhétorique) -- Aspect social -- Méditerranée, Région de la. RELIGION -- Christian Church -- History. RELIGION -- Christianity -- History. Church history -- Primitive and early church Rhetoric, Ancient Mediterranean Region