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English
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Divine Dialogue and the Lord's Prayer : Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation of Texts
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Fall 1995
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28
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117-46
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"The Lord's Prayer comes to us as a dynamic biblical text. Embedded in its discourse are the seeds of subcultural, counter-cultural, and contracultural Christianity. Socio-rhetorical analysis asks us to investigate the presuppositions in our texts as well as in our own bodies and minds. The goal of socio-rhetorical criticism is to move beyond unexamined positions of political domination into a mode of interaction that invites people into cooperative research, dialogue, conversation, and interpretation. We need methods that encourage teamwork and that inspire people to bring their presuppositions out into the open as much as possible to put them on the table, so to speak, as they work together. Socio-rhetorical criticism is an attempt to establish a framework for those who would like to try a more programmatic approach to this kind of biblical scholarship and interpretation." [Author]