The Rhetorical Word : Protestant Theology and the Rhetoric of Authority (Paperback)

Contents: Introduction: Rhetorical Origins: The rhetorical gospel (I): Biblical and anthropological roots; The rhetorical gospel (II): theoretical questions; Before Protestantism: Augustine; Protestantism: 'Non vi sed verbo': Luther and the rhetorical militancy of faith; Protestant poetics (I): the 17th century; Kierkegaard and the crisis of authority; Protestant poetics (II): Romanticism and after; The rhetorical theology of Karl Barth; Barth and Nietzsche: prophetic rhetoric regained; After Barth; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.