Paul Lynch is Associate Professor of English at Saint Louis University. He is the author of After Pedagogy: The Experience of Teaching and a coeditor of Rhetoric and Religion in the Twenty-First Century:Pluralism in a Postsecular Age and Thinking with Bruno Latour in Rhetoric and Composition.
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"Out of the many good and important arguments of this book, I will limit myself to highlighting the following: Paul Lynch's expansion of both Rene Girard's mimetic theory and the study of rhetoric through his efforts to create a theorhetoric (a term he borrows from Steven Mailloux), a new way of speaking to, for, and about God; that it represents the first sustained scholarly effort to investigate the relationship between the thought of Girard and Kenneth Burke; and, finally, that it proposes a way of speaking about Christianity that will be welcomed by some and others will find welcoming." -Jeremiah Alberg The European Legacy "Lynch critically observes and imaginatively reinvents the persuasions of God found in four key theological topoi of meekness, sacrifice, atonement, and holiness." -Elvir Ciceklic Reading Religion "Persuasions of God makes a major contribution to critical conversations concerning rhetoric and religion. As a post-Christian intervention, it deals skillfully with Jewish and Christian scriptures and especially with Christian theological literature as well as relevant work in rhetorical theory. As in his earlier scholarship, Paul Lynch is here not only in dialogue with various disciplinary communities; he also explicitly discusses and exemplifies how such dialogue should generously take place." -Steven Mailloux, author of Rhetoric's Pragmatism: Essays in Rhetorical Hermeneutics "A book as well-informed as it is interesting." -Alvaro Silva Mayeutica "Persuasions of God is a theological and rhetorical masterpiece. Integrating a wide range of voices and resources, Lynch's work achieves a remarkable integration-and simultaneous unsettling-of the boundaries between rhetoric and religion under the banner of 'Theorhetoric.' Persuasions is a work with profound implications for the fields of rhetoric and religious studies in the context of what Lynch identifies as a post-secular and post-Christian Kairos. It is a brilliant and beautifully written book." -Christian O. Lundberg, author of Lacan in Public: Psychoanalysis and the Science of Rhetoric