James Beitler III, Seasoned Speech: Rhetoric in the Life of the Church, Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press Academic, 2019, 243 pp., $25.00 pb.
Christians can be forgiven when they cringe upon hearing the word “rhetoric.” Rhetoric is all too easily associated with insincere posturing and emotional manipulation, or alternatively with academic conferences or journals rife with incomprehensible jargon. But if Christians are going to fulfill their calling to be salt and light in the world, and to let their “speech be seasoned with salt,” rhetoric is unavoidable. The question is whether Christians’ rhetorical practice (rhetorica utens) will be guided by a knowledge of rhetorical theory (rhetorica docens).
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