04249nam 2200865Ia 450 991096135590332120200520144314.0978661028079797812802807951280280794978088920913808892091389781423743026142374302410.51644/9780889209138(CKB)1000000000247070(EBL)685531(OCoLC)753479467(SSID)ssj0000237966(PQKBManifestationID)11187766(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000237966(PQKBWorkID)10222443(PQKB)11025651(CaPaEBR)402714(CaBNvSL)gtp00521104(OCoLC)62744710(MdBmJHUP)muse14377(Au-PeEL)EBL685531(CaPaEBR)ebr10114325(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/n3kxtg(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/2/402714(MiAaPQ)EBC685531(MiAaPQ)EBC3242612(DE-B1597)667394(DE-B1597)9780889209138(Perlego)1706260(EXLCZ)99100000000024707020050907d2005 uy eengur|n|---|||||txtccrRhetoric and reality in early Christianities /Willi Braun, editor1st ed.Waterloo, Ont. Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/Corporation canadienne des sciences religieuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press20051 online resource (275 p.)Studies in Christianity and Judaism = Etudes sur le christianisme et le judaisme ;16Description based upon print version of record.9780889204621 0889204624 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Preface; Contributors; 1 Rhetoric, Rhetoricality, and Discourse Performances; 2 The Rhetoric of Social Construction: Language and Society in the Gospel of Thomas; 3 Melito of Sardis, the Second Sophistic, and ""Israel""; 4 Early Christian Heroes and Lukan Narrative: Stephen and the Hellenists in Ancient Historiographical Perspective; 5 Can Nympha Rule This House? The Rhetoric of Domesticity in Colossians; 6 ""Raised from the Dung"": Hagiography, Liberation, and the Social Subversiveness of Early Medieval Christianity7 Philosophical Counsel versus Customary Lament in Fourth-Century Christian Responses to Death8 Performativity, Narrative, and Cognition: ""Demythologizing"" the Roman Cult of Mithras; 9 Feeling Persuaded: Christianization as Social Formation; Index 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. 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. They discuss the relationship between the verbal performance of rhetStudies in Christianity and Judaism ;16.Persuasion (Rhetoric)Religious aspectsChristianityHistoryChurch historyPrimitive and early church, ca. 30-600Rhetoric, AncientPersuasion (Rhetoric)Social aspectsMediterranean RegionPersuasion (Rhetoric)Religious aspectsChristianityHistory.Church historyRhetoric, Ancient.Persuasion (Rhetoric)Social aspects270.1BO 2110SEPArvkBraun Willi1954-1805586Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910961355903321Rhetoric and reality in early Christianities4354265UNINA