The rhetoric of religion; studies in logology.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley, University of California Press, 1970.Description: vi, 327 p. 21 cmISBN:
  • 0520016106
  • 9780520016101
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 221.66 B917r
Other classification:
  • 17.10
Contents:
Introduction : on theology and logology -- On words and the Word. First analogy ; Second analogy ; Third analogy ; Fourth analogy ; Fifth analogy ; Sixth analogy -- Verbal action in St. Augustine's Confessions. Outline of the inquiry ; Of words here generally ; The beginning ; The end ; The middle, in sum ; En route ; Whence evil? ; Adolescent perversity ; The middle (conversion, turn, peripety) in detail ; The book of Monica ; What all is memory? ; To cling (Inhaerere) ; Trinitarian considerations that complicate the ascent ; Imagery, sensation, temptation and mediator ; In the beginning-- ; Mulitudes and abundances (ubertates) and increases ; Conversion of a word ; In conclusion -- The first three chapters of Genesis. Outline of the inquiry ; On covenant and order ; Tautological cycle of terms for "order" ; Covenant and "counter-covenant" in Hobbes's Leviathan ; Principles of governance stated narratively ; Restatement, on death and mortification ; The narrative principle in imagery ; Dominion, guilt, sacrifice ; Final comparing of cyclical and rectilinear styles ; Logological epilogue ; Miscellaneous postscripts -- Epilogue : prologue in heaven.
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Books Books Tantur Ecumenical Institute Library Main Collection (Lower Floor) 221.66 B917r (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available SS000777085

"Cal 188."

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : on theology and logology -- On words and the Word. First analogy ; Second analogy ; Third analogy ; Fourth analogy ; Fifth analogy ; Sixth analogy -- Verbal action in St. Augustine's Confessions. Outline of the inquiry ; Of words here generally ; The beginning ; The end ; The middle, in sum ; En route ; Whence evil? ; Adolescent perversity ; The middle (conversion, turn, peripety) in detail ; The book of Monica ; What all is memory? ; To cling (Inhaerere) ; Trinitarian considerations that complicate the ascent ; Imagery, sensation, temptation and mediator ; In the beginning-- ; Mulitudes and abundances (ubertates) and increases ; Conversion of a word ; In conclusion -- The first three chapters of Genesis. Outline of the inquiry ; On covenant and order ; Tautological cycle of terms for "order" ; Covenant and "counter-covenant" in Hobbes's Leviathan ; Principles of governance stated narratively ; Restatement, on death and mortification ; The narrative principle in imagery ; Dominion, guilt, sacrifice ; Final comparing of cyclical and rectilinear styles ; Logological epilogue ; Miscellaneous postscripts -- Epilogue : prologue in heaven.

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