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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... humanity to God. Reflecting its sacred cause, the synthesis is extreme; it must be genuinely transcendent; it is not a compromise of the two opposing elements, but in the Old Testament metaphor, a purification. As Leo Strauss reminds us ...
... Human prudence would keep silent, but the divine word must find utterance. Isaiah felt himself sent out with a hopeless and impossible task, and the stories of Elijah and of Jonah illustrate how some prophets would fain have escaped ...
... (human) life of the prophet.” Gerhard von Rad expresses this sacrificial aspect of the calling as a “gulf which separates the prophets from their past” so deep that “none of their previous social relationships are carried over into the ...
... human dilemma in the face of the prophet when he pleads, “The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic. Spare them.” The problem of the prophetic ethos lies in the nature of charisma ...
... human heart.”" The fire imagery so often used to describe revolutionary causes, suggesting their intensity, is seen again in another “Massachusettensis” letter: “There is a latent spark however, in their [the common people's] breasts ...
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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 |