Throughout Roberto Tejada’s body of work, the renowned poet and celebrated critic has explored themes of Latinx culture, politics, history, language, and ecologies. The period 1525-1611 witnessed a proliferation of English biblical versions, provoking a century-long debate about how and whether the Bible should be rendered in English. These public, indeed institutional accounts of biblical English changed the language: questions about the relation between Scripture and exegetical tradition that shaped post-Reformation hermeneutics bore strange fruit in secular literature that defined itself through varying forms of autonomy vis-a-vis prior tradition. Ferguson examines the convergence of biblical interpretation and English literature, from William Tyndale to John Donne, and argues that the groundwork for a newly authoritative literary tradition in early modern England is laid in the discourse of biblical hermeneutics. The expressive and literary capacities of post-Reformation English were largely shaped in response to the Bible. In “ Faith in the Language,” Dr. Ultimately, Kastely insists, persuasion enables us to love the world appropriately. Kastely delivers a provocative new history of rhetoric and philosophy, one that describes rhetoric as more than a matter of effective communication and recasts persuasion as a philosophical concern central to notions of human subjectivity. “Loving the World Appropriately” asks a different, more fundamental, question: why does an audience need persuasion? In shifting our focus, Dr.

Both positions rest on a fundamental belief: persuasion is a power that resides in a speaker acting on an audience. For others, persuasion is simply a neutral instrumentality-a valued source of soft power.

Kastely asks: what is persuasion? For some, it is the ideal alternative to violence.

In “ Loving the World Appropriately,” Dr.

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