In the Name of the Father
The Rhetoric of the New Southern Baptist Convention
Will be published approx. on 30. June 1999
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-0-8093-2220-6 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing on sermons delivered at national Southern Baptist conventions from 1979 onwards, the authors of this book outline the discourses of fundamentalism, inerrancy, and exclusion. They assert that these discourses call for a return to times before liberalism and sexual tolerance.
Reviews / Votes
"The sharp turn to the right of the Southern Baptist Convention is an arresting cultural and rhetorical phenomenon. Kell and Camp provide an insider/outsider view of the turn, offering a sympathetically incisive critical analysis of the rhetoric that powered it. Scholars and students both of rhetoric and religion will find much in this book to commend its use."-Helen Sterk, Calvin College"In the Name of the Father is an elegant, though heavily theoretical analysis.... [It] adds meaningfully to the growing literature on the transformation of the SBC."-Church History
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Language
English
Place of publication
Carbondale
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
5
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8093-2220-6 (9780809322206)
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Persons
Carl L. Kell is a professor in the Department of Communication, Western Kentucky University, where he teaches rhetorical history and persuasion in American popular culture.
L. Raymond Camp is a professor emeritus of communication at North Carolina State University. He is the author of Roger Williams: God's Apostle of Advocacy and the editor of Persuasion in the Public Forum: Pulpit, Bar, and Council.
L. Raymond Camp is a professor emeritus of communication at North Carolina State University. He is the author of Roger Williams: God's Apostle of Advocacy and the editor of Persuasion in the Public Forum: Pulpit, Bar, and Council.