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Rhetoric and reality in early Christianities /

One of the most pressing issues for scholars of religion concerns the role of persuasion in early Christianities and other religions in Greco-Roman antiquity. The essays in Rhetoric and Reality in Early Christianities explore questions about persuasion and its relationship to early Christianities. T...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion
Otros Autores: Braun, Willi, 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waterloo, Ont. : Published for the Canadian Corp. for Studies in Religion/Corporation canadienne des Sciences religieuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005.
Colección:Studies in Christianity and Judaism ; 16.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Rhetoric, rhetoricality, and discourse performances / Willi Braun
  • The rhetoric of social construction: language and society in the Gospel of Thomas / William E. Arnal
  • Melito of Sardis, the second sophistic, and "Israel" / Laurence Broadhurst
  • Early Christian heroes and Lukan narrative: Stephen and the Hellenists in ancient historiographical perspective / Todd Penner
  • Can Nympha rule this house? The rhetoric of domesticity in Colossians / Margaret Y. MacDonald
  • "Raised from the dung": hagiography, liberation, and the social subversiveness of early Medieval Christianity / John Kitchen
  • Philosophical counsel versus customary lament in fourth-century Christian responses to death / Theodore S. de Bruyn
  • Performativity, narrativity, and cognition: "demythologizing" the Roman cult of Mithras / Luther H. Martin
  • Feeling persuaded: Christianization as social formation / Chad Kile.