Essays on Christian Rhetoric: Rhetoric, Composition, and Literature

Dr. Thomas Reedy has collected eleven essays on Rhetoric, Composition, and Literature that were given as presentations at the Rhetoric Society of America, the Conference on College Composition and Communications (4Cs), Conference on Christianity and Literature (SCMLA), and Baylor's Religious Faith and Literary Art. Each essay examines the intersection of Christianity in these fields and are examined using Rhetoric. This is an academic work and reflects the work he did while in the Ph.D. program at Texas Christian University..

Essays include:
Contemporary Homiletics and Sophistic Rhetoric
Prophetic Speech: Ethos, Mania, and Schizo-phonate Empowerment
Ethos, Collaboration, Authorship, and Ethics: The Pseudepigrapha and Cyberspace
Literacy, the Enthymeme, and Biblical Hermeneutics
Ethos and the Notion of Literary Capital
The Theoretical Gaze: Meaning Making in The Composition Classroom
Motherhood and Empowerment in Hebrew Patriarchal Society: Hannah’s Vindication
Christine Rossetti’s Goblin Market as Messianic Metaphor
The Deterioration of Religious Faith in The Great Gatsby.
Con[de]structing Christianity: Victorian Sage Writers and the Culturalization of Christianity
Moses, Jesus and Mohammad: Ethos and Citation as Revision