Religious dialectics of pain and imagination
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Religious dialectics of pain and imagination
（SUNY series in rhetoric and theology）
State University of New York Press, c1994
- pbk. : alk. paper
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Includes bibliographical references ( p. [183]-191) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book explores the possibility of a "liberatory postmodern rhetoric" or, alternatively, a "postmodern liberation rhetoric." The author turns to one of the most ancient disciplines, rhetoric, in order to address a most contemporary concern: how can humans imagine new and better worlds when surrounded by unspeakable pain?
After a foray into key terms—rhetoric, postmodern, liberation, pain, imagination, religion—the author places into conversation the theory and practice of four contemporary rhetoricians, two postmoderns, Kenneth Burke and Thomas Merton, and two liberationists, Paulo Freire of Brazil and Oscar Romero of El Salvador.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1. The Way to Proceed
Rhetoric
Postmodern versus Liberationists
Pain
Imagination
The Religious
Burke, Merton, Freire, Romero
2. Burke's Beloved Cynosure and Sinecure
The Ambiguity of History
The Plurality of Language
Imagination
Pain
The Religious
3. 'Poetic Rhetoric and Baffling Illogic': Merton's The Geography of Lograire
The Plurality of Language
The Ambiguity of History
Pain
Imagination
4. Zoon Phonanta: Freire's New Human
Pain
Imagination
Language and History
5. Romero's Pastoral Letters: 'Goodtidings to Those Who Suffer'
Pain
Imagination
Language, History, Liberation
Afterword
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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