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The historically rich and ongoing relationship between religion, faith communities and rhetoric has yielded many important works. This volume deserves a place among that bookshelf for offering some careful writing about overlooked or at least less obvious cases regarding the intersection of rhetoric and Christian tradition broadly defined. . . . The final strength of the text that [is] the unique cases offered. As such it would make a great second text in a course exploring the relationship between rhetoric and Christianity. American Communication Journal

While rhetoric and religion have always had a lot to offer each other, scholars in both fields have only recently begun to say what that involves. This collection of new and established voices marks a welcome advance in showing how this exciting challenge can be met in our own time. --Walter Jost, University of Virginia

While rhetoric and religion have always had a lot to offer each other, scholars in both fields have only recently begun to say what that involves. This collection of new and established voices marks a welcome advance in showing how this exciting challenge can be met in our own time. --Walter Jost, University of Virginia This volume offers a powerful and much needed reminder to scholars in our field--as instructors and citizens--that religiously informed and motivated rhetors can and should be understood in the full complexity of their accomplishments. --Patricia Bizzell, College of the Holy Cross Offers much for compositionists who want to work productively with religious students and explore the complex relationship between rhetoric and religion, and it does so largely through its twin themes of renovation and transfer. Extends the conversation about religion and religiously committed students in rhetoric and composition by simultaneously extending and blurring its boundaries, by prompting us to rethink notions of transfer through a more complex metaphor of renovation, and by reminding us that the Christian and rhetorical traditions alike are rife with ingenuity and creativity. --Composition Forum The historically rich and ongoing relationship between religion, faith communities and rhetoric has yielded many important works. This volume deserves a place among that bookshelf for offering some careful writing about overlooked or at least less obvious cases regarding the intersection of rhetoric and Christian tradition broadly defined. . . . The final strength of the text that [is] the unique cases offered. As such it would make a great second text in a course exploring the relationship between rhetoric and Christianity. --American Communication Journal

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Elizabeth Vander Lei is professor of English, and cochair of the English department at Calvin College.

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