Between Tradition and Text: Textual Theology as the Rhetorical Activity of Theology in Public Discourse.
Leland Spencer and Timothy Forest (2023) expanded the concept of rhetorical theology to include a rhetor's theology as identified through religious statements in fragments of their public discourse. Building on this scholarship, I integrate Kenneth Burke's theory of terministic screens, identifying...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Communication & Religion Vol. 48; no. 2; pp. 47 - 67 |
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Winter2025
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