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Exigence Definition
- What drives us to Wisdom? A particular challenge
- Exigence: a situational urgency requiring a rhetorical response
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2 Requirements of a Rhetorical Situation
- 1. It invites Discourse
- 2. The discourse could have a potential impact
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Propitious Moment
Definition: when the most favorable circumstances are presented
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Jesus and Propitiation
- Propitiation (others focused): God's wrath is the 'problem' Jesus solved
- Expiation: Human guilt was in the way and Jesus got rid of it
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Expiatious Moment
When the situation is most favorable for me
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Blitzer
- 2 requirements of R.S. invites discourse/potential impact
- What kind of response does a R.S. invite? A fitting response, one that is both expiatious and propitious
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Status Definition
- The heart of the matter
- The hinge upon which the case turns
- When you get to an exigence, consider: why are you there?
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Facility of Discernment (Status)
- If you're good at something, you've cultivated the virtues of that practice as well
- Wisdom: the ability to recognize the difference between life and death, with the motivation to choose life
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Facility of Discernment Authors
- Farrell: Rhetoric needs the virtue of discernment
- Aristotle: school is to teach kids what they ought to like or disliek
- Hebrews 5/11-14: milk and solid food, good to be a sponge, better to be a hose; training oneself for discernment takes constant work
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Tests of Discernment
- Art of Asking Questions
- Ancient System of Inquiry
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Art of Asking Questions (tests of discernment)
- Job: asked lots of questions of God
- James 4/2: Have not because you ask not
- stay engaged by asking only questions
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Ancient System of Inquiry (tests of discernment)
- An Sit: is it? FACT did it happen/is it true?
- Quid Sit: what is it? DEFINITION getting on the same page/dtr
- Quali Sit: What kind is it? VALUE what is the quality? Is it good or bad?
- This is all QUINTILIAN
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Thesis Statement
- Blair?!
- Result of determining status: a tentative thesis statement
- next step is responding to the exigence
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Common Topoi
- How our brain naturally organizes/natural direction of questions to pursue in conversation
- (list is in book)
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God--4 ways?
- 4 things?
- 1. listening to and receiving God's word
- 2. Noting God's nature and character
- 3. Accepting His invitations and doing His commands
- 4. Recognizing and rejoicing in the love he has shown
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God: author
- J.J. Packer
- the best studier of man isn't man--it's God
- REVIEW ARTICLE
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Knowing God
Augustine: you have made us for yourself and our hearts are restless until they get to you
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Means (God)
- Merton: only the man who has faced despair knows he needs mercy
- don't fear despair, fear complacency
- despair leads to knowing God
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Nature Authors
- Wordsworth: let nature be your teacher
- Sanders: ???
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Nature's Ways (Nature)
- McKibben: 70 tv shows/24 hours
- 1. deep sense of limits
- 2. life requires sacrifice
- 3. cyclical
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Nature's Ways Authors
- McKibben
- Hopkins??
- Lewis: nature does not always teach because you look for lessons you already knew
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Parables/Metaphors in nature
Dillard: cultivate a healthy poverty so that it is joyous to find a penny
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Love Thyself
- over preoccupation with self
- no thyself
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