The Rhetoric of Conversion in English Puritan Writing from Perkins to Milton
David Parry, "The Rhetoric of Conversion in English Puritan Writing from Perkins to Milton "
English | ISBN: 135016514X | 2022 | 288 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 135016514X | 2022 | 288 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This rhetorical study of the persuasive practice of English Puritan preachers and writers demonstrates how they appeal to both reason and imagination in order to persuade their hearers and readers towards conversion, assurance of salvation and godly living. Examining works from a diverse range of preacher-writers such as William Perkins, Richard Sibbes, Richard Baxter and John Bunyan, this book maps out continuities and contrasts in the theory and practice of persuasion.
Tracing the emergence of Puritan allegory as an alternative, imaginative mode of rhetoric, it sheds new light on the paradoxical question of how allegories such as John Bunyan's
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