Preaching before a Manly King

Newman on Rhetoric and Preaching

Title of Document: NEWMAN ON RHETORIC AND PREACHING Milton King, MA, 2007 Directed By: Professor Jeanne Fahnestock English Language and Literature In Newman studies, four current theological issues find resolution and application. Faith emerges as the best mode of reasoning for discerning truth, boosts theology’s academic status, and speaks to the felt need in academia to require students to en...

Preaching to the unconverted.

Springer, New York, New York, USA. Hilborn, R., and M. Mangel. 1997. The ecological detective: confronting models with data. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. Hurlbert, S. 1984. Pseudoreplication and the design of ecological field experiments. Ecological Monographs 54: 187–211. Ionides, E. L., C. Bretó, and A. A. King. 2006. Inference for nonlinear dynamical systems. Proce...

The Manly Art of Observation and Deduction

Film and Christian Preaching: Toward a Cinemate Homiletic (Part I)

Gentlemanly politeness and manly simplicity in Victorian England.

Between the late eighteenth century and the mid-nineteenth century the notion of the 'polite gentleman' lost its political purchase. 'Manliness' became the identifying code of both the business class and the 'respectable' working class. The virtues of rugged individualism and personal integrity were emphasised at the expense of sociability and ease of manner. In the political sphere debates abo...