TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kaveny,Cathleen
TI  - Prophecy without Contempt: Religious Discourse in the Public Square 
SN  - 9780674969407
AV  - BL633 .K38 2016
U1  - 322/.1014 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Christianity and politics
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Jeremiads
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Prophecy
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Political
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; I. The State of Public Discourse: Three Incomplete Explanations --; 1. Alasdair MacIntyre: Fractured Moral Traditions --; 2. John Rawls: Contests of Public Reason --; 3. Carter and Cuddihy: Constraints of Civility --; II. The Jeremiad and Its Evolution: A Historical Exploration --; 4. The American Jeremiad: Covenant, Complaint, and Controversy --; 5. From Consensus to Division: The Jeremiad’s Shifting Role in American Political Life --; III. The State of Public Discourse: A Rhetorical Analysis --; 6. Prophetic Indictment and Practical Deliberation: Identifying the Differences --; 7. Prophetic Indictment and Practical Deliberation: Describing the Relationship --; IV. Toward an Ethic of Prophetic Rhetoric: Compassionate and Humble Truth Telling --; 8. Best Practices: Styles of Prophetic Indictment --; 9. Prophecy, Irony, and Humility: Lessons from Lincoln and Jonah --; Conclusion --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access
N2  - The culture wars have as much to do with rhetorical style as moral substance. Cathleen Kaveny focuses on a powerful stream of religious discourse in American political speech: the Biblical rhetoric of prophetic indictment. It can be strong medicine against threats to the body politic, she shows, but used injudiciously it does more harm than good
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674969407
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674969407
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674969407/original
ER  -