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hn's identification of Jesus with the Platonic and Stoic idea of the pre-existent "Word." 5 A more intentional religious humanism can be found in Augustine's use of the neo-Platonic Plotinus, especially in the philosophical psychology of remembrance developed in his Confessions . 6 But the most dram

at moves people. In these speeches is a clear demonstration of the power of language. Language is more than words and more than delivery. Indeed, Cicero, in De Oratore, said that rhetoric conveys information, persuades listeners, and evokes emotion. "In the beginning was the word...." If "the wor

hilosopher, Walter Kaufman, has noted in his Religion in Four t Dimensions “...compassion for unbelievers is implicitly condemned and proscribed...Augustine argued expressly against compassion for the damned and Luther used invectives against his (religious) enemies...” How can this be God’s 145 HOUSE_

ia’s activated mind. If | had been benefited with a classical language education beyond the high school and early college Latin of Julius Caeser and Cicero or matriculated in an academic theological seminary, | would have already studied, maybe even worn out, the deeper aspects of what seemed like a para

of John’s identification of Jesus with the Platonic and Stoic idea of the pre-existent “Word.” A more intentional religious humanism can be found in Augustine’s use of the neo-Platonic Plotinus, especially in the philosophical psychology of remembrance developed in his Confessions.° But the most dramatic ex

y that moves people. In these speeches is a clear demonstration of the power of language. Language is more than words and more than delivery. Indeed, Cicero, in De Oratore, said that rhetoric conveys information, persuades listeners, and evokes emotion. “In the beginning was the word....” If “the word m