Includes bibliographical references and index.

The word as history: sacred and profane / Walter J. Ong -- Kenneth Burke's religious rhetoric: "God terms" and the ontological proof / Wayne C. Booth -- The philosophical foundations of sacred rhetoric / Debora K. Shuger -- Invention, emotion, and conversion in Augustine's Confessions / Wendy Olmsted -- Rhetorical theology: charity seeking charity / Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle -- Rhetoric, conscience, and the claim of religion / Walter Jost -- Erasmus: rhetorical theologian / Manfred Hoffmann -- Naming God / Paul Ricoeur -- Prophetic rhetoric and mystical rhetoric / David Tracy -- Apophatic analogy: on the language of mystical unknowing and being-toward-death / Thomas A. Carlson -- Machiavellian rhetoric in Paradise lost / Victoria Kahn -- Rhetoric, ideology, and idolatry in the writings of Emmanuel Levinas / Susan E. Shapiro -- Theological reflections on the hyperbolic imagination / Stephen H. Webb -- Koinonia and the friendship between rhetoric and religion / Kathy Eden -- Picturing God: the rhetoric of religious images and Caravaggio's Conversion of Saint Paul / Stephen Happel -- The rhetoric of philosemitism / Mark Krupnick -- Performing faith: the peaceable rhetoric of God's church / James Fodor and Stanley Hauerwas.