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Early Christians navigated deception through language, rhetoric, and virtue.
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The Logic of Deception
Language, Emotion and the Fall in Early Christian Thought
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192 pages
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10 June 2027
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Summary
This insightful book examines the early Christians’ views of language and rhetoric, which it places in the larger theological context of early Christian moral psychology. The culmination of 25 years of study in the fields of Patristics of Early Church History, Susan Wessel explicates the nature of early Christian claims to truth.
Wessel studies the works of Gregory of Nyssa, Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus, Augustine and Maximus the Confessor that articulate a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780567722942 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0567722945 |
| Author: | Professor Susan Wessel, Susan Wessel |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | T.& T.Clark Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 10 June 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 234mm |
A-Format111 × 178 mm
B-Format130 × 198 mm
C-Format153 × 234 mm
156 × 234 mm
A4210 × 297 mm
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About The Author
Professor Susan Wessel
Susan Wessel is the James H. and Mary F. Moran Professor of Early Church History at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, USA.
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