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Open-Handed Communication: The Rhetoric of Christian Persuasion

January 10, 2017 by David Parry No Comments

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.

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: apologetics, Book Review, Erasmus, Fool's Talk, intervarsity press, Os Guinness, persuasion, rhetoric

Book Review: Fool’s Talk, by Os Guinness

August 18, 2016 by Bob Trube No Comments

Summary: Guinness argues for the recovery of the lost art of persuasion that combines good apologetic work with evangelism and is aware of the many people Christians address who are not open to their message.

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: apologetics, Book Review, Erasmus, Fool's Talk, holy fool, intervarsity press, Os Guinness, persuasion, proclamation

Book Review: Erasmus and the Age of Reformation, by Johan Huizinga

July 7, 2016 by Bob Trube No Comments

Summary: An elegantly written biography of Desiderius Erasmus describing his life, thought and character as a scholar who hoped to awaken “good learning” and to bring about a purified Catholic church, and the tensions resulting from being caught between Reformers and Catholic hierarchy.

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: Book Review, calling, Christian scholar, christian scholarship, Erasmus, humanism, humanist scholarship, Johan Huizinga, public domain works, Reformation

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