Rhetoric and reality in early Christianities / / Willi Braun, editor

• Pubblicazione: Waterloo, Ont., : Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/Corporation canadienne des sciences religieuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (275 p.)
• Disciplina: 270.1
• Soggetto topico: Persuasion (Rhetoric) - Religious aspects - Christianity - History; Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600; Rhetoric, Ancient; Persuasion (Rhetoric) - Social aspects - Mediterranean Region
• Classificazione: BO 2110
• Altri autori: BraunWilli <1954->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Christianity ; 7 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 rhet
• Titolo autorizzato: Rhetoric and reality in early Christianities
• ISBN: 9786610280797; 9781280280795; 1280280794; 9780889209138; 0889209138; 9781423743026; 1423743024
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910961355903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in Christianity and Judaism ; ; 16.