The Creative Power of Metaphor: A Rhetorical Homiletics
This study analyzes the symbiotic relationship between rhetoric and homiletics. The proposed interface between the two disciplines is metaphor. Contemporary research on metaphor in philosophy, rhetoric, sociology, and theology is employed to produce a rhetorical/metaphorical homiletics. This work attempts to return rhetoric to its traditional position as a conversation partner with homiletics. The author argues that a metaphorical, rhetorical approach to preaching is more faithful to the scriptures than the classical dependence on the canons of formal logic. The use of metaphor allows the preacher to choose the imagination over the rational paradigm as he/she creates new worlds of meaning for congregations.
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The Creative Power of Metaphor: A Rhetorical Homiletics
This study analyzes the symbiotic relationship between rhetoric and homiletics. The proposed interface between the two disciplines is metaphor. Contemporary research on metaphor in philosophy, rhetoric, sociology, and theology is employed to produce a rhetorical/metaphorical homiletics. This work attempts to return rhetoric to its traditional position as a conversation partner with homiletics. The author argues that a metaphorical, rhetorical approach to preaching is more faithful to the scriptures than the classical dependence on the canons of formal logic. The use of metaphor allows the preacher to choose the imagination over the rational paradigm as he/she creates new worlds of meaning for congregations.
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The Creative Power of Metaphor: A Rhetorical Homiletics

The Creative Power of Metaphor: A Rhetorical Homiletics

by Rodney Kennedy
The Creative Power of Metaphor: A Rhetorical Homiletics

The Creative Power of Metaphor: A Rhetorical Homiletics

by Rodney Kennedy

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This study analyzes the symbiotic relationship between rhetoric and homiletics. The proposed interface between the two disciplines is metaphor. Contemporary research on metaphor in philosophy, rhetoric, sociology, and theology is employed to produce a rhetorical/metaphorical homiletics. This work attempts to return rhetoric to its traditional position as a conversation partner with homiletics. The author argues that a metaphorical, rhetorical approach to preaching is more faithful to the scriptures than the classical dependence on the canons of formal logic. The use of metaphor allows the preacher to choose the imagination over the rational paradigm as he/she creates new worlds of meaning for congregations.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780819188458
Publisher: University Press of America
Publication date: 01/29/1993
Pages: 142
Product dimensions: 5.52(w) x 8.82(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Rodney Kennedy is Senior Minister at Clinton United and Clear Creek United Methodist Churches in Lake Charles, Louisiana and teaches in the Communication Department at Southeastern Louisiana University.
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