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

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Book
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English
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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.
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xi, 257 p. ; 24 cm.

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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • 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.
    ISBN
    0889204624 :
    OCLC
    61526327
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