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Αugustine and Rhetoric: Argumentative Strategies in Early Christianity (Mnemosyne, Supplements, Late Antique Literature, 479) - Hardcover

Book 11 of 16: Mnemosyne, Supplements, Late Antique Literature
 
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Synopsis

This volumes examines the place of classical rhetoric in Augustine's theology. Rather than seeing rhetoric as a matter only of style, the authors examine the argumentative techniques that Augustine would have learned and taught as a professional rhetorician. Essays pay particular attention to the rhetorical practice of invention in order to uncover the ways in which Augustine's thought is not only expressed rhetorically but constructed rhetorically as well. If you want to know what kind of rhetoric Augustine used in the actual practice as a Christian writer and preacher, this volume will answer your question.

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About the Author

Adam Ployd, Ph.D. (2013), Emory University, is Dean of Davenport College at Yale University. He is the author of Augustine, the Trinity and the Church (OUP, 2015) and Augustine, Martyrdom, and Classical Rhetoric (OUP, 2023).

Rafał Toczko, Ph.D., Professor of Classics at Nicolaus Copernicus University. Author of Crimen obicere: Forensic Rhetoric and Augustine's Anti-Donatist Correspondence (Vendenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2020); co-creator of Scrinium Augustini. The World of Augustine's letters database: www.scrinium.umk.pl.

Contributors are: Michael Cameron, Andrew Chronister, Jennifer Ebbler, Diane Fruchtman, Kevin G. Grove, Timo Nisula, Gert Partoens, Mickael Ribreau, Rafał Toczko, Christian Tornau.

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