RT Article
T1 Dialogue or proclamation? Communication ethics and the problem of persuasion in mission
JF Missiology
VO 45
IS 3
SP 336
OP 348
A1 Niebauer, Michael
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1576385655
AB 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.
K1 Augustine
K1 John Cobb
K1 Communication ethics
K1 Interreligious Dialogue
K1 invitational rhetoric
K1 Missiology
K1 Mission
K1 Persuasion
K1 Proclamation
K1 Rhetoric
DO 10.1177/0091829617696338