Today we feature a new Easter poem by ESN author and scholar of early modern literature David Parry. Christ is risen!
Open-Handed Communication: The Rhetoric of Christian Persuasion
In Os Guiness’s recent apologetics book Fool’s Talk, what role does rhetoric play? Literary scholar David Parry draws on his knowledge of classical and Christian rhetorical traditions to unpack one strand of Guinness’s ideas about apologetics.
Communication for Communion, Part 4 (Scholar’s Call)
Some aspects of verbal communication don’t have any particular conceptual content to them – rather they are there to form or to maintain a connection between persons. For instance, “How are you?” is not primarily a request for information but a means of forging contact with another human being, as is asking about the weather, at least in Britain.
Communication for Communion, Part 3: Babel and Pentecost (Scholar’s Call)
But was there ever a language in which the totality of a thing in its essence was communicated fully in words?
Communication for Communion, Part 2: The Quest for the Adamic Language (Scholar’s Call)
So what language did Adam and Eve speak in the Garden of Eden? This was a question of significant interest in the early modern period (around the 16th and 17th centuries).