Dialogue or proclamation? Communication ethics and the problem of persuasion in mission

This article utilizes the field of communication ethics to sharpen a critique of a form of interreligious dialogue that de-emphasizes the necessity of proclamation, as well as to provide helpful tools to recover a notion of proclamation that acknowledges its persuasive and purgative aspects. The art...

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Published in:Missiology
Main Author: Niebauer, Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2017]
In: Missiology
IxTheo Classification:CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
KDJ Ecumenism
NCA Ethics
RJ Mission; missiology
Further subjects:B Augustine
B Proclamation
B invitational rhetoric
B Communication ethics
B Rhetoric
B John Cobb
B Interreligious Dialogue
B Mission
B Persuasion
B Missiology
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Summary:This article utilizes the field of communication ethics to sharpen a critique of a form of interreligious dialogue that de-emphasizes the necessity of proclamation, as well as to provide helpful tools to recover a notion of proclamation that acknowledges its persuasive and purgative aspects. The article begins by showing how a particular form of communication ethic, invitational rhetoric, coheres with a form of interreligious dialogue promoted by John Cobb. Such cohesion will enable a critique of interreligious dialogue utilizing similar critiques levied at invitational rhetoric. Following this critique will be a brief recovery and strengthening of a notion of proclamation as persuasion and purgation, with the aid of portions of Augustine's and Kenneth Burke's rhetorical theories.
ISSN:2051-3623
Contains:Enthalten in: Missiology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0091829617696338