Sentences with phrase «rhetorical criticism»

Whereas Wellhausen had challenged the historical reliability of the biblical account on the grounds that it was compiled from multiple sources that originated long after the events reported, his intellectual successors a century later were employing methodologies (such as rhetorical criticism and narrative criticism) that seemed to assume that the biblical writers were not particularly concerned with historical accuracy anyhow.

The bibliographies therefore list works of both literary criticism and rhetorical criticism.

The first is to introduce rhetorical criticism of the Bible by reviewing recent publications on the subject.

Along the way, we have observed two basic elements in these approaches to rhetorical criticism, the careful and detailed examination of the biblical text and the broader demonstration of persuasive purpose.

Wilhelm Wuellner's article, «Rhetorical Criticism,» in The Postmodern Bible outlines Kennedy's method before it goes on to raise questions about the rhetoric of interpretation itself.

The second is to demonstrate one way to use rhetorical criticism for study and preaching, using as an example the story of Joseph in Potiphar's house.

First, Kennedy outlines a method that the biblical interpreter can use to practice a form of rhetorical criticism.

He wrote, in New Testament Interpretation through Rhetorical Criticism, «For some readers of the Bible rhetorical criticism may have an appeal lacking to other modern critical approaches, in that it comes closer to explaining what they want explained in the text: not its sources, but its power.»

In this way, rhetorical criticism fills the gap between historical and sociological approaches to biblical study.

Rhetorical criticism of the Old Testament makes comparisons with writings of the time, but New Testament critics can refer to speeches, letters and the instructional manuals that document the rhetorical cultures of Greece and Rome.

George Kennedy, a renowned classical scholar, became interested in rhetorical criticism of the Bible when graduate students in Old and New Testament asked to study with him.

Rhetorical criticism of the Bible is nothing new; it can be traced back at least as early as Augustine, but the twentieth century practice of rhetorical criticism finds its origins in James Muilenburg's work with Hebrew poetry and Amos Wilder's lectures on early Christian rhetoric.

George Kennedy's comment in New Testament Interpretation Through Rhetorical Criticism can be applied to Lincoln and King: «In religious discourse... the premises of argument are usually based on a scriptural authority or personal intuition, enunciated in sacred language.»

Not exact matches

Even those who gravitate toward harsh criticism of the Iraq War and of Bush - era American foreign policy do not avail themselves, except in the occasional rhetorical flourish, of the pronouncements of religious authorities.

Unlike James Joyce, who was alienated and angry and therefore turned his critical intelligence into a weapon, or later novelists for whom social criticism became a rhetorical convention, James and Conrad were modern enough to see our socially constructed self - images, and yet not so modern as to cherish or reject them» or take them for granted.

Lentricchia, whose earlier work earned him the epithet «the Dirty Harry of literary theory, is the author of Criticism and Social Change (1983), which urges us to regard all literature as «the most devious of rhetorical discourses (writing with political designs upon us all), either in opposition to or in complicity with the power in place.»

Performance studies was developing, at that time, into a discipline of inquiry within communication studies that acknowledged many ancestors in its family tree including rhetorical theory, dramaturgy, and literary criticism.

Such vulnerable rules of discourse need protection from criticism, and two distinct rhetorical strategies have been pursued to provide it.

That leads us to Strauss» bigger criticism of Burke, which is rhetorical.

Stanley Nash, in a review of Diamond's book, maintains that Kurzweil «brought a rhetorical intensity and intellectual acumen to Hebrew criticism that have rarely been equaled.»

This criticism is neither moral nor theological, but rather rhetorical.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump was merely making a «rhetorical response to a criticism» by LaVar Ball when he tweeted of Ball's son LiAngelo and two UCLA teammates that he «should have left them in jail» in China.

About Blog Derrick's theological methodology is best described as a systematized biblical theology informed by historical critical investigation and insights from rhetorical and epistolary criticism, with an experiential element that Derrick likes to call doing theology in conversation with God.

Very much influenced by Joseph Beuys, and European Conceptualism, as well as American performance art — there was this enormous amount of awareness and self criticism, very rhetorical.

Criticism of climate science, and criticisms of scientists, has been a key rhetorical strategy of those opposed to climate action for decades.

I also criticized their suggestion that climate - change skeptics are suffering under a reign of terror similar to that of Soviet geneticists in the Lysenko era; they dismiss my criticism as a «rhetorical flourish.»

Unless you can show by statistical analysis or by replication that those two tests of relative error rates are in error, bringing up short lists of supposed errors is mere cherry picking, and rhetorical rather than scientific criticism.

About Blog Derrick's theological methodology is best described as a systematized biblical theology informed by historical critical investigation and insights from rhetorical and epistolary criticism, with an experiential element that Derrick likes to call doing theology in conversation with God.

About Blog Derrick's theological methodology is best described as a systematized biblical theology informed by historical critical investigation and insights from rhetorical and epistolary criticism, with an experiential element that Derrick likes to call doing theology in conversation with God.