Eloquence Divine
In Search of God's Rhetoric
by Philip Arrington
A study of God as a rhetorical actor in the narratives of the Bible, showing how a distinctive divine rhetoric influences the events of scripture.
In recent years, keen interest has arisen among scholars regarding the connection between rhetoric and religion. This phenomenon could be due to the idea of universality that underlies these two topics or simply because of the crucial relevance theyhold for the human condition. Biblical rhetorical criticism has been particularly active since 2009. The debate serves as a foundation for Eloquence Divine, which is grounded in a moderate and detached point of view that becomes helpful in seeing God as a ‘mere’ agent. In this fascinating study, God and Jesus are intended as rhetoricians who applied their own rhetoric tools in order to influence humanity’s behaviour, acts and decisions. As an agnostic English teacher, Philip Arrington traces paths across different episodes of the Scriptures with the aim to explore basic issues, such as identifying the difference between God’s rhetoric and human persuasion, as well as the effectiveness that divine eloquence demonstrates in the narration of the Bible.
- By (author) Phillip Arrington
"Arrington asks us to regard the Word of God as inalterably, unrelievedly rhetorical, and further asks, what does this tell us about rhetoric--and about God--once we undertake a project like this one? . . . Whether they agree with his conclusions or not, readers will certainly learn from this discussion and, I think, be surprised at the many good insights to be discovered here."-Frank Farmer, author of After the Public Turn and Saying and Silence'This is an agnostic's shrewd and clever critique of Christian fundamentalism - but it is also a fascinating journey into biblical literature and the assumptions that are made about it by more critical voices within theology.'Jasper, David, University of Glasgow, The Expository Times, Vol. 130(5) pg231, 2019
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