Tag: rhetoric
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Study Notes – 1 Kings 8 14-21
We are studying 1 Kings 8:14-21 for Sunday, January 12. This will be our second of four weeks spent in this chapter of 1 Kings, which tells the story of Solomon’s dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem, from the perspective of the Bibical author known as “the Deuteronomist.” This part of the text is the…
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“Messaging”
More and more, I read and hear people ridiculing a cluster of “postmodern” ideas: that “reality is socially constructed,” that “language is a political power-play,” that rhetoric molds passionate intensity and conviction along with it. Denying the socially-constructed quality of social reality, and the element of power-play in the meaning of words, seems to have…
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The Other Kids Don’t Like the Teacher’s Pet
Even we watched the presidential debate last night. I appreciated the gentleman who asked “All the rhetoric aside, what’s one thing you like or respect about the other?” How inspired. What I mainly noticed was the difference between the two candidates in vocabulary and rhetorical style. Clinton talks in bullet points and lists; she uses…
Matters of Interpretation 