Speaking Peace in a Climate of Conflict by McEntyre, Marilyn

Speaking Peace in a Climate of Conflict

What can we learn from contemporary writers about keeping public conversation compassionate, vigorous, faithful, and life-giving?Those who...
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Speaking Peace in a Climate of Conflict by McEntyre, Marilyn

Speaking Peace in a Climate of Conflict

$53.75

Speaking Peace in a Climate of Conflict

$53.75
Author: Marilyn McEntyre
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

What can we learn from contemporary writers about keeping public conversation compassionate, vigorous, faithful, and life-giving?

Those who want to avoid simplistic partisan rhetoric and use words in a challenging, spirited way need practical strategies. This book offers a range of them.

Drawing upon the work of exemplary contemporary writers, Speaking Peace in a Climate of Conflict shows how to speak and write clearly and generously. For example, we can attend more carefully to the effects of metaphors, recognize and avoid glib euphemisms, define terms in ways that retrieve core meanings and revitalize them, and enrich our sense of history by deft use of allusion.

Contemporary readers are awash in many words that have been cheapened and profaned. But with deliberate use of intelligence and grace we can redeem their "sacramentality"--humanely uttered words can convey life-giving clarity and compassion. Speaking Peace in a Climate of Conflict is an homage to outstanding wordsmiths who have achieved that potential and an invitation to follow them in making well-chosen words instruments of peace.



Author: Marilyn McEntyre
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: 05/19/2020
Pages: 212
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780802878144

About the Author

Marilyn McEntyre is the award-winning author of several books on language and faith, including What's in a Phrase? Pausing Where Scripture Gives You Pause (winner of a Christianity Today 2015 book award in spirituality); Make a List: How a Simple Practice Can Change Our Lives and Open Our Hearts; Word by Word: A Daily Spiritual Practice; When Poets Pray; and Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies.

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