?ugustine and Rhetoric
Argumentative Strategies in Early Christianity
Published on 29. November 2023
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-90-04-68359-4 (ISBN)
Description
This volumes examines the place of classical rhetoric in Augustine's theology. Rather than seeing rhetoric as a matter only of style, the authors examine the argumentative techniques that Augustine would have learned and taught as a professional rhetorician. Essays pay particular attention to the rhetorical practice of invention in order to uncover the ways in which Augustine's thought is not only expressed rhetorically but constructed rhetorically as well. If you want to know what kind of rhetoric Augustine used in the actual practice as a Christian writer and preacher, this volume will answer your question.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 237 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
532 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-68359-4 (9789004683594)
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Adam Ployd, Ph.D. (2013), Emory University, is Dean of Davenport College at Yale University. He is the author of Augustine, the Trinity and the Church (OUP, 2015) and Augustine, Martyrdom, and Classical Rhetoric (OUP, 2023).
Rafal Toczko, Ph.D., Professor of Classics at Nicolaus Copernicus University. Author of Crimen obicere: Forensic Rhetoric and Augustine's Anti-Donatist Correspondence (Vendenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2020); co-creator of Scrinium Augustini. The World of Augustine's letters database: www.scrinium.umk.pl.
Contributors are: Michael Cameron, Andrew Chronister, Jennifer Ebbler, Diane Fruchtman, Kevin G. Grove, Timo Nisula, Gert Partoens, Mickael Ribreau, Rafal Toczko, Christian Tornau.
Rafal Toczko, Ph.D., Professor of Classics at Nicolaus Copernicus University. Author of Crimen obicere: Forensic Rhetoric and Augustine's Anti-Donatist Correspondence (Vendenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2020); co-creator of Scrinium Augustini. The World of Augustine's letters database: www.scrinium.umk.pl.
Contributors are: Michael Cameron, Andrew Chronister, Jennifer Ebbler, Diane Fruchtman, Kevin G. Grove, Timo Nisula, Gert Partoens, Mickael Ribreau, Rafal Toczko, Christian Tornau.