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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... divine “I,” and the message of judgment is against “you” the people. Assuming the voice of the divine “I,” the prophet presents the ethos of God in a radical confrontation with His people. In the revelation of the compassionate nature ...
... divine will shows itself in the sense of compulsion under which he labored. His mission was not of his own choosing. . . . Human prudence would keep silent, but the divine word must find utterance. Isaiah felt himself sent out with a ...
... divine will; the prophet exchanges self for certitude, the absolute negation of chaos.” It is from this position that the prophet makes his criticism of his society; the prophet stands as a synecdochal realization of God's will. James ...
... divine ethos, the prophet succeeds in making his ethos, the authenticity of his call, the paramount question. James Crenshaw terms this “the Achilles-heel of ancient prophecy,” “namely the absence of any validation for a prophetic word ...
... divine origin or as exemplary, and on the basis of them the individual is treated as a leader.”" Overholt and Vawter both point to an extraordinary and personal experience as the source of prophecy, and Weber's definition of charisma ...
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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 |