LEADER 02734cam a2200397 a 4500001 9946328363506421 005 20240725044451.0 008 051218s2005 onc b 001 0 eng^^ 016 2005905672X 020 0889204624 : |c$49.95 035 (OrLoB)R5541892 035 (NjP)4632836-princetondb 035 |z(NjP)Voyager4632836 035 (OCoLC)ocm61526327 040 NLC |beng |cNLC |dBAKER |dGHS |dNjP 050 4 BR166 |b.R48 2005 055 0 BR166 |bR48 2005 055 00 BR166 |bR48 2005 082 0 270.1 |222 245 00 Rhetoric and reality in early Christianities / |cWilli Braun, editor. 260 Waterloo, Ont. : |bPublished for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/Corporation canadienne des sciences religieuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, |c2005. 300 xi, 257 p. ; |c24 cm. 490 1 Studies in Christianity and Judaism = Études sur le christianisme et le judaïsme ; |v16 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 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. 650 0 Persuasion (Rhetoric) |xReligious aspects |xChristianity |xHistory. 650 0 Church history |yPrimitive and early church, ca. 30-600. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85025620 650 0 Rhetoric, Ancient. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85113634 650 0 Persuasion (Rhetoric) |xSocial aspects |zMediterranean Region. 700 1 Braun, Willi, |d1954- |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94103536 710 2 Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79138228 830 0 Studies in Christianity and Judaism ; |v16. 902 df |bm |6a |7m |dv |f1 |e20060112 904 myt |ba |hm |cb |e20060110 914 (OCoLC)ocm61526327 |bOCoLC |cmatch |d20240717 |eprocessed |f61526327