On the Way to Canterbury: A Rhetorician's Tale

The essay locates the author's work in the comic perspectives of rhetoric and Christianity. To explain why no Christian motive has been found in his work, the author explores facets of Anglican Christianity that see theology and practical reason as complementary. The essay encourages religious scholars to integrate theological insight in their scholarship and draws on the recent work of Eugene Garver to argue that religious particularism may enrich civic argument by encouraging both candor and political friendship