Rhetoric in Paul’s Letter to Philemon
I am uploading a paper I wrote at Harding Graduate School of Religion for Dr. Oster’s class on Paul’s Prison Letters on Paul’s Use of Rhetoric in Philemon for all you Philemon fans out there. This paper discusses slavery in the ancient world, ancient Greek rhetoric and more specifically the rhetorical devices that Paul uses […]
Sin, Aristotle, and the Tragic Hero
Ryken gives an interesting observation about sin in his book How to Read the Bible as Literature. It is in the context of discussing tragic heroes who, in spite of their great ability, fall due to a character flaw. “Ordinarily a tragic hero possesses something that we call greatness of spirit. All of this grandeur […]