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The polemical sermons of John Chrysostom against the Judaizers: A dramatistic analysis
Abstract
The seven polemical homilies of John Chrysostom against the Judaizing Christians represent Chrysostom's attempt to persuade his listeners to refrain from participating in Fourth century A.D. Jewish fasts and festivals. The Representative Anecdote is a dramatistic methodology consistent with explicating the persuasive rhetorical discourse of John Chrysostom's polemical homilies. The Representative Anecdote is a rhetorical strategy derived from the perspective that rhetoric is the presentation of manipulated symbolic forms, or language, in order to achieve identification with the audience, and ultimately persuasion. The concept of Struggle is identified as the Representative Anecdote underlying John Chrysostom's polemical homilies. Through the use of the Military, Medical, and Legal metaphors, Chrysostom presented the Representative Anecdote of Struggle throughout his homilies as his way of interpreting and understanding the situation involving the Judaizing Christians. The Representative Anecdote provides an understanding of the intention and purpose of Chrysostom's homilies, as well as the identification and comprehension of certain predispositions which governed or controlled Chrysostom's rhetorical discourse. The Representative Anecdote, as a rhetorical strategy, is demonstrated to be a valid and legitimate methodology for evaluating persuasive rhetorical discourse.
Subject Area
Communication|Middle Ages|Religious history
Recommended Citation
Mullen, William LeRoy, "The polemical sermons of John Chrysostom against the Judaizers: A dramatistic analysis" (1990). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI9108234.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI9108234