The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in AmericaNYU Press, 1999 M09 1 - 292 páginas This expansive volume traces the rhetoric of reform across American history, examining such pivotal periods as the American Revolution, slavery, McCarthyism, and today's gay liberation movement. At a time when social movements led by religious leaders, from Louis Farrakhan to Pat Buchanan, are playing a central role in American politics, James Darsey connects this radical tradition with its prophetic roots. |
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... crisis, from the Greek krisis, “decision,” or “judgment.” As R. B. Y. Scott suggests, The call appears to have come to each prophet in a time of intellectual and emotional tension. “The year that King Uzziah died” marked the end of an ...
James Darsey. Against crisis, against chaos, the prophet posits sacred judgment, replicating the original ordering of creation by God. Claus Westermann, in his widely cited work on the forms of prophetic speech, asks the question, “What ...
... crisis. The spiritual wilderness is harsh and exacting, but it is also invigorating; it provides an opportunity for the reassertion of the self as against the atrophy induced by profane comforts, and its vastness and incipient power ...
... crisis, the colonists couched their protests in the language of compulsion: “[The members of this congress], having considered as maturely as time would permit, the circumstances of the said colonies, esteem it our indispensable duty to ...
... people without the encumbrances of being part of the British empire. Out of a crisis of meaning, the Whigs brought new order and definition, boldly proclaiming self-evident truths, truths already part of Prophecy as Sacred Truth 59.
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Wendell Phillips and | 61 |
The Passion | 85 |
The Word in Darkness III | 111 |
Joe McCarthys Rhetoric | 128 |
The Romantic Vision | 151 |
IO The Seraph and the Snake | 199 |
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Index | 269 |
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The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America James Darsey Sin vista previa disponible - 1997 |