Renovating Rhetoric in Christian Tradition 1st Edition by Elizabeth Vander Lei, Thomas Amorose, Beth Daniell, Anne Ruggles Gere 9780822979593 0822979594

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ISBN 10: 0822979594

ISBN 13: 9780822979593

Author: Elizabeth Vander Lei; Thomas Amorose; Beth Daniell; Anne Ruggles Gere

Throughout history, determined individuals have appropriated and reconstructed rhetorical and religious resources to create effective arguments. In the process, they have remade both themselves and their communities. This edited volume offers notable examples of these reconstructions, ranging from the formation of Christianity to questions about the relationship of religious and academic ways of knowing.

The initial chapters explore historic challenges to Christian doctrines and gender roles. Contributors examine Mormon women’s campaigns for the recognition of their sect, women’s suffrage, and the statehood of Utah; the Seventh-day Adventist challenge to the mainstream designation of Sunday as the Sabbath; a female minister who confronted the gendered tenets of early Methodism and created her own sacred spaces; women who, across three centuries, fashioned an apostolic voice of humble authority rooted in spiritual conversion; and members of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who redefined notions of women’s intellectual capacity and appropriate fields for work from the Civil War through World War II.

Considering contemporary learning environments, other contributors explore resources that can help faculty and students of composition and rhetoric consider more fully the relations of religion and academic work. These contributors call upon the work of theologians, philosophers, and biblical scholars to propose strategies for building trust through communication.

The final chapters examine the writings of Apostle Paul and his use of Jewish forms of argumentation and provide an overarching discussion of how the Christian tradition has resisted rhetorical renovation, and in the process, missed opportunities to renovate spiritual belief.

Table of contents:

1. Constructing Devout Feminists: A Mormon Case

2. A Rhetoric of Opposition: The Seventh-Day Adventist Church and the Sabbath Tradition

3. Preaching from the Pulpit Steps: Mary Bosanquet Fletcher and Women’s Preaching in Early Methodi

4. “With the Tongue of [Wo]men and Angels”: Apostolic Rhetorical Practices Among Religious Women

5. Rhetorical Strategies in Protestant Women’s Missions: Appropriating and Subverting Gender Ideal

6. “Attentive, Intelligent, Reasonable, and Responsible”: Teaching Composition with Bernard Lone

7.“Ain’t We Got Fun?”: Teaching Writing in a Violent World

8. A Question of Truth: Reading the Bible, Rhetoric, and Christian Tradition

9. The Jewish Context of Paul’s Rhetoric

10. Resistance to Rhetoric in Christian Tradition

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