Holy rhetoric: Anselm’s prayers and the phenomenology of divine compassion
In this essay, I examine Anselm’s ‘Prayers and Meditations’ as rhetorical prayers. I consider the basic structure of prayer as address to the Divine. For Anselm, this address is rhetorically structured towards persuading God to reveal himself by the three Aristotelian means of persuasion: character,...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2020]
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International journal of philosophy and theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 81, Issue: 5, Pages: 447-465 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Anselm, Canterbury, Erzbischof, Heiliger 1033-1109, Orationes sive meditationes
/ Prayer
/ Rhetoric
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages |
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Phenomenology
B Medieval Theology B Rhetoric B Anselm B Aristotle B Prayer |
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| Summary: | In this essay, I examine Anselm’s ‘Prayers and Meditations’ as rhetorical prayers. I consider the basic structure of prayer as address to the Divine. For Anselm, this address is rhetorically structured towards persuading God to reveal himself by the three Aristotelian means of persuasion: character, affect, and argument. Compassion is the phenomenological showing of God as the transcending Good as summoned by the orator. In rhetorical prayer, we take up our existential situation as moved by God to move God. Compassion is the showing-up of God in prayer as revelation of self and Other. |
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| ISSN: | 2169-2335 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal of philosophy and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/21692327.2020.1819383 |