This reading of Ignatius' letters to Smyrna, Smyrneans and to Polycarp, views the audience less as "recipients" than as "participants" in a debate about local and translocal connections of the church in Smyrna. Ignatius hoped to persuade them to separate from local docetists and…
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Bishop Thomas Dexter Jakes is founder and senior pastor of The Potter's House—a multiracial, non-denominational Church in Oak Cliffs, Texas. He is identified as one of the most prolific and influential African-American, contemporary, Christian preachers—this, according to a 1997…
In Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe articulates and dramatizes a unique and peculiar kind of rhetoric—a rhetoric that emphasizes that man, and not language, is the site for social interaction. He therefore, in some particular instances, domesticates the English language and make…
The focus of this dissertation is to examine the speeches of Activist Allie Corbin Hixson as a strategic response to conflict over ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment in her thirty-year quest for equal rights. This study utilizes a dramatistic approach to examine how Hixs…
Some current Bible scholars have proposed explanations of Isaiah 19 irrespective of its original historical setting. Some Egyptologists have proposed connections between Isaiah 19 and Egypt of the 8th century B.C. This growing divide is what has stimulated this study of Isaiah 1…
This dissertation explains a research project that investigated 50 sermons delivered by Evangelical preachers in a small town in southwestern Ethiopia. The project included recording, transcribing, and analyzing oral Amharic sermons that were delivered by numerous preachers from…
Despite the ceaseless flood of publications on the origins of monotheism, and its alleged "refinement" in the exilic period (especially Deutero-Isaiah), attention to the varieties and functions of monotheistic discourse in the Persian/early Hellenistic period literature is scant…
Arab American Muslim women often struggle to maintain conflicting identities. They feel pressure to perform the traditional roles of being a mild-mannered daughter, obedient wife, and strict mother (in that order); however, they are also often trying to remain true to their newe…
The alternative health movement is a burgeoning phenomenon in contemporary American culture. Frequently overlooked by communication scholars in general and rhetorical critics in particular are a number of epistemological, economic and political forces at play in the agon, or com…
The impetus and drive for my dissertation was three-fold: (1) My extensive professional and vocational proficiency as a Pastor and Preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal Church; (2) My personal witness, experiences, and practice of Black Preaching's power to excite, inspire…
This dissertation examines the motif of the vindication of the divine reputation in the book of Ezekiel. A study of the specific language of the motif, along with its meanings and functions, reveals that the motif is vital to the rhetorical strategy of the entire book: it fulfil…
Rhetoric developed in the West by centralizing verbal/visual modalities. Other sensory modalities, like smell, were de-emphasized. This dissertation, in a series of essays, theorizes the rhetorical potential and detriment of smell as a non-verbal factor in persuasion by explorin…