The Rhetorical Word: Protestant Theology and the Rhetoric of Authority (Routledge Revivals) - Hardcover

Hobson, Theo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138736651 ISBN 13: 9781138736658

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

This title was first published in 2003:This book offers a bold reading of Protestant tradition from a rhetorical and literary perspective. Arguing that Protestant thought is based in a rhetorical performance of authority, Hobson draws on a wide range of modern and postmodern thought to defend this account of rhetorical authority from various charges of authoritarianism. With close readings of Augustine, Luther, Kierkegaard and Barth, this book develops a new 'rhetorical theology of the Word' and also a new critique of secular modernity, with particular reference to modern literature and the thought of Nietzsche. Confronting the related issues of rhetoric and authority, Hobson provides a provocative account of modern theology which offers new perspectives on theology's relationship to literature and postmodern thought.

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Theo Hobson

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138736651
• ISBN 13: 9781138736658
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 228