| Calvin and the Rhetoric of Piety Contributor(s): Jones, Serene (Author) |
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ISBN: 066422850X ISBN-13: 9780664228507 Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press OUR PRICE: $39.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - Calvinist - Religion | Christian Theology - History - Religion | Christian Theology - Systematic |
| Dewey: 284.2 |
| Lexile Measure: 1560 |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6.08" W x 9.22" (0.84 lbs) 252 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian - Theometrics - Mainline - Theometrics - Reformed |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Throughout the years, biographers have depicted John Calvin in manifold ways. Serene Jones takes a fresh look at Calvin as she draws a compelling portrait of Calvin as artist, engaged in the classical art of rhetoric. According to Jones, this art was used knowingly and skillfully by Calvin to persuade and challenge his diverse audiences. Jones offers a rhetorical reading of the first three chapters of Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion. What emerges is a truly original interpretation of Calvin and his work. |
Contributor Bio(s): Jones, Serene: - Serene Jones is President of Union Theological Seminary in New York. Prior to joining Union, she served as Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School for seventeen years. She is the author of several books, including Calvin and Rhetoric: Christian Doctrine and the Art of Eloquence and Trauma and Grace: Theology in a Ruptured World, both published by WJK. |