Offering new readings on language and civil conflict in a variety of Ancient Greek and Roman texts, this study puts these reflections from the classical world in dialogue with contemporary philosophy and political theory. Daniel Sutton focuses on Thucydides, Plato, Sallust, and Tacitus, exploring the ways in which the figure of paradiastole (often termed 'rhetorical redescription') was deployed to explain the conflicts of value which underpinned civil strife. These texts paint vivid pictures of what happens to language during civil discord: pictures which seem increasingly familiar today. Simultaneously, they grapple deeply with what it means to search for timeless values in times of conflict. This study demonstrates how ancient texts can offer us new ways of understanding the role of language in civil discord, of restoring political dialogue in fractious times, and of approaching intellectual history itself.
From the earliest stages of the movement, Romanian Baptists, with significant support from the Baptist Theological Seminary in Bucharest, produced theological literature aimed at articulating and strengthening their dual identity as both Baptists and Romanians. These writings sought to develop a distinctly Romanian Bap...
This essay draws attention to the social processes that shape law. It argues, therefore, that processes of political institutionalisation arise out of sociocultural conflicts resolved through force in favour of a single collective actor, albeit only in relative and historically provisional terms. This essay seeks to...
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This chapter examines Jeff Lemire's Trillium (2014) which, like many time travel narratives, reflects ideas of colonialism in the appropriation of territory and time by future scientist, Nika and British explorer Billy's respective cultures. The paper uses postcolonial theories of writers such as Gayatri Chakravorty Sp...
The Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church, known more often as the Augustana Synod, was the only enduring Swedish American Lutheran denomination in American history. Despite its institutional unity, the denomination experienced internal struggles, exemplified by the conflict in the 1920s between so-called "Fundamentali...
Thomas E. Jacobson· Promissio: A Journal of Conf...· 0 citations
Understanding the history of Roman rhetoric, particularly its political development, requires an understanding of the forces that shaped Roman culture. Just as the physical and social environment of ancient Athens contributed to the acceptance and growth of rhetoric, so too did the physical and social environment of...
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This article contends that religion remained central to understanding ‘nationalism’ in Britain and India in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This proposition will be demonstrated in concrete form through reading, and cross-reading, three interpretations of the Revolt of 1857: John Kaye’s A History of the S...
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