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Course description: A study of representative texts from the classical rhetorical tradition, the history of preaching, and the history of theology formative for the development of homiletical theory. Among thinkers, preachers, or movements examined are Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintilian; Origen and Chrysostom; Augustine, scholasticism, and the preaching orders; Luther and Calvin; Puritanism and Anglicanism; and Fénelon and the court of Louis XIV.
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