Paul and the Rhetoric of Reconciliation

by Mitchell, Margaret Mary

• ISBN13: 9780664219925
• ISBN10: 0664219926
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-06-01
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pr

Summary

What, overall, is the genre, function, and composition of Paul's first letter to the Corinthians? Margaret Mitchell thoroughly documents her argument that 1 Corinthians was a single letter persuading the Corinthian Christian community to become unified. She analyzes the letter as deliberative rhetoric that pleaded for a course of action in the future and uses rhetorical criticism within a historical context to find enlightening parallels for many of the successive parts of the letters.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Note on Citations
Introduction to the Task and Methodology	p. 1
1 Corinthians as Deliberative Rhetoric	p. 20
The Time Frame of Deliberative Rhetoric	p. 24
The Appeal to Advantage in Deliberative Rhetoric	p. 25
The Use and Function of Examples in Deliberative Rhetoric	p. 39
Factionalism and Concord in Deliberative Rhetoric	p. 60
Thematic and Rhetorical Unity in 1 Corinthians: The Language of Factionalism and Reconciliation	p. 65
The Questions and the Argument	p. 65
Political Terms in 1 Cor 1:10	p. 68
Political Terms and Topoi Introduced in 1 Cor 1:11-4:21	p. 81
References to Corinthian Factionalism in 1 Cor 5-16	p. 111
Summation of Terms and Topoi Related to Factionalism in 1 Corinthians	p. 180
Compositional Analysis: 1 Corinthians as a Unified Deliberative Letter Urging Concord	p. 184
Outline of Epistolary and Rhetorical Structure of 1 Corinthians	p. 184
Preliminary Remarks on the Composition of 1 Corinthians	p. 186
Compositional Analysis	p. 192
Conclusion	p. 296
Bibliography	p. 305
Indices	p. 327
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