Abstract
Responding to Bizzell’s 2008 JAEPL article, this article argues that the intellectual work of religious minds involves inventing arguments grounded in the religious community’s ethos that advocate for new perspectives within that community. Using Katharine Hayhoe’s evangelical Christian environmentalist rhetoric as an example, this article prompts rhetorical educators to rethink approaches to teaching ethos.
("What if there is intellectual work to be done that can only be done by what [Shannon] Carter calls the “Christian mind”—or Jewish, Muslim, or Buddhist mind?" —Patricia Bizzell, Faith-Based World Views as a Challenge to the Believing Game)
Recommended Citation
Ringer, Jeff
(2020)
"The Inventive Work of the Christian Mind,"
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning: Vol. 25
, Article 2.
https://doi.org/10.7290/jaepl25x3m6
Available at:
https://trace.tennessee.edu/jaepl/vol25/iss1/2
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