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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... judgment, a “common sense,” at least of basic principles. Walter Brueggemann describes the prophet as one who must “move back into the deepest memories of his community and activate those very symbols that have always been the basis for ...
... judgment, there is an element in prophecy that aspires to the mundane. The severity of the prophet's judgment must not be confused with hysteria. Vawter in fact describes the prophetic word as “usually calm” and “matter-of-fact” in tone ...
... 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 epoch. The social strains following Jeroboam's ...
... judgments against the nation rather than the judgments against individuals characteristic of the preliterary prophets caused some changes in the form of the prophetic judgment-speech. The form became freer, more complex, and more ...
... judgment-speech, but also something of its character, a glimpse of the omnivorous pathos behind it. In a word often used in English translations of the Old Testament, it reeks of vengeance, of the anger of betrayal. Abraham Heschel in ...
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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 |