Divine Apology: The Discourse of Religious Image Restoration - Hardcover

Miller, Brett

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0275975487 ISBN 13: 9780275975487

Verlag: Praeger, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

While the defense of public image in political, corporate, and celebrity rhetoric has been widely studied, religious image repair has been largely ignored. Divine Apology considers the unique circumstances facing religious figures in need of restoring their reputations by examining a blend of historical and contemporary defenses offered by various figures and groups. The author covers apologia as advanced by the Apostle Paul, Justin Martyr, Martin Luther, Jimmy Swaggart, evangelical opponents of the Jesus Seminar, and conservative leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention. He concludes that strategies used for religious image repair often differ significantly from those employed by politicians, corporations, and other public figures.

In this unique volume, Miller demonstrates that religious groups and individuals are as motivated as anyone else to purify their public images. The issues prompting defenses, however, are more likely to focus on epistemological conflicts and clashes of worldviews than on inappropriate behaviors. As a consequence, religious apologists are more likely to associate attacks against their beliefs as assaults against their characters. This causes religious image restoration discourse to manifest itself as more transcendent than defenses in traditional situations involving laypeople. Miller posits that the presence of God and religious antecedents as salient audiences, as well as other factors concerning audience and context, work to shape a form of apology that is characteristically religious.

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In addition to being an in-demand private instructor to students around the World, guitarist Brett Miller has produced and released multiple solo albums, composed original soundtracks in the video game industry, and continues to help thousands of Guitar students by creating books and courses at Metal Guitar Academy (MetalGuitarAcademy.com). Brett holds a degree in Classical Composition from Berklee College of Music, and plays in his Power Metalwave band, 1-900.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Praeger
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0275975487
• ISBN 13: 9780275975487
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 184
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Friedensallee 273; Hamburg; 22763; Deutschland