You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with h….

The most characteristic concern of rhetoric [is] the manipulation of men's beliefs for political ends....the basic function of rhetoric [is] the use ….

Man is rotten with perfection..

The universe would appear to be something like a piece of cheese; it can be sliced in an infinite number of ways- and when one has chosen his own pat….

Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies….

Man is/the symbol-using (symbol making, symbol-misusing) animal/inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative)/separated from his natural co….

Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language as….

Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull..

Language does our thinking for us..

Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any select….

We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations..

If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives..

A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing..

The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents..

Creation implies authority in the sense of originator..

Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning..

Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent i….

Dignity belongs to the conquered..

Stories are equipment for living..

The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken..

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language..