Renovating Rhetoric in Christian Tradition

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203 index — abolitionism, 49, 66, 162n25 academia, 58, 80; avoiding religion, 98; responses to Christian fundamentalism in, 92–94; univocalism in, 98 African Americans, women’s clubs of, 8–9 agency, of rhetors, 138, 140–43 Allen, Danielle, 101 American dream, 20 Anderson, Chris, 152n20 Andrews University, ecumenism speech at, 26–27 Angola, Miller’s mission work in, 54–57 Anthony, Susan B., 12 antifoundationalism, 148 Antigua, 49, 161n18; Hart sisters working in, 45–46; histories of Methodism in, 45, 47; missionaries in, 47–48 Anti-Polygamy Society, 7 apologias: forensic, 37; Mary Bosanquet using rhetoric of, 36–37; “Tina’s,” 80 apostles, as role models for community, 51 apostolic rhetoric, 45–46, 147; of Anne Hart, 47–48; authority through, 48–49, 51; of Eliza Snow, 52–54; of Janette Miller, 54–57; relation to community, 52, 54, 57–58; translation as, 54–57 Aquinas, Thomas, 111 Areopagitica (Milton), 112 argument: Jewish forms of, 120–31; treated as warfare, 91–92 Arrington, Leonard, 153n7 Ashworth, Peter, 81, 88 Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, 111 Augustine of Hippo, 111, 140–42 authority: gaining rhetorical, 45; for interpretation of sacred texts, 143–44; rhetoric in claiming, 47; sources of, 79; to speak, 138; through apostolic rhetoric, 46, 48–49, 51–52, 54 Bacchiocchi, Samuele, 19 Baker, Frances J., 59, 63, 68 Barnes, Elizabeth, 153n2 Bauthumley, Jacob, 113 Baxter, John, 47, 51, 162n25 “belief-as-narrative,” 78, 81 Benson, Joseph, 51 Berry, Wendell, 97–98 the Bible, 37; dramatistic narratives in, 109; in history of Christianity, 110–13; interpretations of, 110, 115–16, 175n12; Jewish interpretation of, 119–20; literal interpretations of, 84–86, 94, 114, 173n40; Methodist speech genres and, 33–34; Old Testament rhetoric in, 140; as sacred text, 108; truth of, 106 Bizzell, Patricia, x, 115 204 ■ index blue laws, as state-legislated Sabbath observance, 20–25 Bok, Edward, 155n23 Borg, Marcus, 107, 113–15, 173n40 Brown, Earl Kent, 33–34 Brown, Isabel Cameron, 12 Buckley, James Monroe, 61–62 Bull, Malcolm, 20–21 Burke, Kenneth, 53, 139; on God as the Word, 136–37; on scientistic vs. dramatistic language, 109 Bush, George W., 99–100 Butler, William, 65–66 Calvin, John, 112 Cameron, Averil, 139 Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs, 32 Carter, Shannon, 101 Carter, Stephen L., 25, 98 Ceppi, Elisabeth, 56 Chappell, Virginia, 103 Chicago Exposition (1893), Mormons at, 12–13, 156n29 Chilton, Bruce, 133 Christianity: attitudes toward worldviews in, 138–39, 146–49; in churchstate separation, 18; disrupted by Reformation, 143–44; gender equality as ideal of, 69; history of, 110–13, 136; interpretation of sacred texts in, 143; Jews and, 126–30, 175n14; relation to rhetoric, 137, 143–145; responses to fundamentalism in, 92, 152n20; rhetoric of, 136, 139; stagnation vs. change in, 145–46; Sunday Sabbath in, 19–20 Church of England, Methodism and, 32, 38–39 Church of the Latter Day Saints. See Mormons church-state separation, 18–19, 23 civic discourse, incivility in, 91–92 class, social, 48 classical rhetoric, 81 Coke, Thomas, 47–48 common sense, Lonergan’s sense of, 80–81, 167n19 communities, 45, 121; apostles as role models for, 51; avoiding conflict, 98–99; boundaries of, 93; common good of, 80–83, 100; Mary Bosanquet ’s, 34–35; Miller serving American and African, 55–57; narratives of, 50, 96; relation of apostolic rhetoric to, 46, 57–58; sacred texts in context of, 108; women strengthening through apostolic rhetoric, 46–47, 52, 54 Congregationalism, Miller’s mission work for, 54–56 consent, as issue in polygamy and slavery, 5 conversion narratives, 47, 49–50 Coppe, Abiezer, 113 Cottrell, Raymond F., 17 critical thinking, students moving toward, 105, 107 Croly, Jennie June, 10–12 Crosby, Sarah, 34 Crowley, Sharon, xi, 91, 93–94, 108 “Cult of True Womanhood,” 61, 69 culture: education as agent of hegemony in, 115; worldview underlying, 146–47 “culture wars,” 91–92 Dante, 111–12 Daube, David, 174n5 Davies, W. D., 175n11 deliberative argument, 38 democracy, deliberative vs. participative, 102–3 DePalma, Michael-John, 76 index ■ 205 Derr, Jill Mulvey, 14, 52–53 DiMattei, Steven, 134 diversity, welcoming, 99–101 doctors, Mormon women as, 7–8 Donawerth, Jane, 34 Downs, Doug, 92–93 Durbin, John Price, 63 Ebenezer Orphanage, 56 ecumenism, SDA and, 26–27 Edmunds-Tucker law, 7 education: as agent of cultural hegemony, 115; effects of evangelism on students’, 87–88; emotions in, 91, 96–97; by Hart sisters, 46; by Janette Miller, 56–57; for...