Divine Rhetoric
Subtitle: The Sermon on the Mount As Message and As Model in Augustine, Chrysostom, and Luther
Publisher: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press
Published: December 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780881412147
Subjects: Biblical studies, criticism & exegesis; Books of the New Testament; Theology; Religion - Biblical Studies; History; Religion; Sermon on the mount; Religious aspects; Biblical Studies - New Testament; Commentaries; Christianity; History and criticism; Rhetoric; Bible - Study - New Testament
First sentence: Although the ability to use language as a means of persuasion is a universal human trait, and one that is, as Aristotle noted, "more characteristic of humans than is use of the body," it is to classical Greece and Rome that we owe the systematization of critical reflection about it.