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