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Rhetoric and Religion: Rediscovering Homiletics as a Site of Inventional Activity
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Carter, Krista M.
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1389283781
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2013, Master of Arts (M.A.), Xavier University, English.
Abstract
My work on invention begins with the parallel histories of religion and rhetoric and explains how I define invention. Rhetoric and homiletics were once closely related and are now, at best, estranged. My thesis explores their complex history and argues that this separation is detrimental. I will then engage inventional theory and focus on two binaries that run through invention scholarship: heuristic vs. hermeneutic and creation vs. discovery. Within each binary I will consider the homiletic concerns and implications as well as rhetorical ones. Throughout this work, I will argue that homiletics is a useful and interesting site in which inventional theory and practice are present in a unique, synthetic way. To conclude, I will explore some homiletic textbooks and analyze the heuristics they use, taking into consideration the inventional theory and definitions discussed.
Committee
Kristine Johnson, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Tyrone Williams, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Pages
88 p.
Subject Headings
Religion
;
Rhetoric
Keywords
Rhetoric
;
Religion
;
Homiletics
;
Invention
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Carter, K. M. (2013).
Rhetoric and Religion: Rediscovering Homiletics as a Site of Inventional Activity
[Master's thesis, Xavier University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1389283781
APA Style (7th edition)
Carter, Krista.
Rhetoric and Religion: Rediscovering Homiletics as a Site of Inventional Activity.
2013. Xavier University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1389283781.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Carter, Krista. "Rhetoric and Religion: Rediscovering Homiletics as a Site of Inventional Activity." Master's thesis, Xavier University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1389283781
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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