Seasoned speech: rhetoric in the life of the church

Introduction: The rhetoric of Christian witness

Preparing the way: C. S. Lewis and the goodwill of Advent

Professing the creeds: Dorothy L. Sayers and the energy of Christmastide

Preaching the word: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and epiphanic identification

Calling for repentance: Desmond Tutu and Lenten constitutive rhetorics

Hosting the guest: Marilynn Robinson and the ēthos of Eastertide

Speaking in tongues: The Church and the heteroglossia of Pentecost.