Session 5: 4:30pm-5:45pm

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

4:30pm-5:45pm 

Session 5A
Azalea Room

RCA Top Student Papers Panel

Chair: Leela Mogadam, Texas Christian University

“Obviously I Wouldn’t Be a Pastor”: Baptist Women Leaders’ Nested Identity Construction, Performance and Reconciliation, Breanna Prater, University of Missouri-Columbia

“On Earth and in Heaven”: Studying Identity Tensions in Underrepresented Church Workers, Autumn Buzzetta, Colorado State University

As Above, So Below: A Rhetorical Theory of Sacrality, David Dockery, Texas A&M University

Discursive Struggles Reflected in the Communication of Conservative Christian Parents and Their Adult Children with Differing Religious Beliefs and Values, Braedon Worman, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Session 5B
St. Charles Room

Persuasions of God: The Inventions of Theorhetoric

Chair: Christian Lundberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Theorhetoric in Persuasions of God: Ignatian Spirituality, Jesuit Political Theology, and PostHeideggerian Rhetoric, Steven Mailloux, Loyola Marymount University

A Response to Paul Lynch’s Persuasions of God: Inventing the Rhetoric of René Girard: Arguing with God in the Christian Tradition, David Frank, University of Oregon

A Response to Plato and to Contemporary Calls for Theorhetoric: Using Rhetorical Field Methods in Encounters with and Articulations of the Divine, Meghan Dunn, St. John’s University

Desiring the Holy: The Future of Theorhetorics, Paul Lynch, Saint Louis University

Session 5C

Canal Room

The Rhetoric of Faith

Chair: Cecil Kramer, Jr., Liberty University

A Common Framework for Interfaith Dialogue, L. Ripley Smith, Bethel University

Communicating about Faith with Greater Regard: A Christian Communication Higher Education Faith Integration Model Considering the Rhetorical Situation, Julie Borkin, Taylor University

Decentered Preaching: A Proposal for Preaching in White Churches, Jeffrey Miller, University of Memphis

Embracing Imperfection: Henri Nouwen’s Threefold Journey of Spirituality and Communication Practice, Andri Kosasih, Duquesne University

Session 5D

Bourbon Room

Presidential Citation Award Panel

A Conversation With Frank A. Thomas, Christian Theological Seminary

with Andre E. Johnson and Frank A. Thomas