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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... senses, long fallen into desuetude: “Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not.” Heavy use of metaphors of vision in Old Testament prophecy suggests a rhetoric of showing.” In the ...
... 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 contradicting the ...
... sense to talk of “practical wisdom,” “sensitivity to the occasion,” “opportunistic economizing, interest,” or “bargaining.” As a manifestation of God's will, the word is absolute and immutable; it is beyond the reach and power of ...
... sense of overwhelming threat, a sense that, in its intensity, achieves psychotic proportions, a threat to the selfdefinition of a people. Jürgen Habermas finds crisis “when members of a society experience structural alterations as ...
... sense of disintegration, of despair, that characterizes critical times. The relief of agony requires a new synthesis. To be restored to grace, the people must experience a revival of pathos, a resurrection from their spiritual death ...
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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 |