Lecture Two: Rhetoric and Universalism

I. Rhetorical analysis.

A. Reading as interpretation

B. Communication triangle

C. Burke’s Pentad

D. Paul: Apostle to All Nations

1. Background

2. Letters: genre conventions

3. First and Second Letters to the Corinthians

4. Letter to the Galatians

5. Speech to the Athenians

II. Interpretation, rhetoric, ideology