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Rhetoric and reality in early Christianities
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- Creator
- Willi Braun, editor
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Waterloo, Ont. : Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/Corporation canadienne des sciences religieuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005
- Physical Details
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- xi, 257 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780889204621, 9781280280795, 9780889209138, 0889204624, 0889209138, 1423743024, 9781423743026, 1280280794, 9786610280797
- OCLC
- ocm62744710, ocm61526327, ocn753479467
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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