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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: The Jesuits and Rhetorical Studies— Looking Backward, Moving Forward -- Historical Notes on Rhetoric in Jesuit Education -- Rhetorical Veri-similitudo: Cicero, Probabilism, and Jesuit Casuistry -- Loyola’s Literacy Narrative: Writing and Rhetoric in Th e Autobiography of Saint Ignatius Loyola -- A Pilgrim’s Staff versus A Ladder of Contemplation: The Rhetoric of Agency and Emotional Eloquence in St. Ignatius’s Spiritual Exercises -- St. Francis de Sales and Jesuit Rhetorical Education -- Black Robes / Good Habits: Jesuits and Early Women’s Education in North America -- The Changing Practice of Liberal Education and Rhetoric in Jesuit Education, 1600–2000 -- The Jesuits and Rhetorical Studies in Nineteenth- and Twentieth- Century America -- Rhetorical Ways of Proceeding: Eloquentia Perfecta in American Jesuit Colleges -- Jesuit Rhetoric and the Teaching of Professional Discourse in America -- Walter Ong: A Jesuit Rhetorical and Interdisciplinary Scholar and Educator -- Edward P. J. Corbett, the Revival of Classical Rhetoric, and the Jesuit Tradition -- Bernard Lonergan’s Rhetorical Resonances: A Preliminary Inquiry -- Paulo Freire and the Jesuit Tradition: Jesuit Rhetoric and Freirean Pedagogy -- Rhetoricians Reflect on Their Jesuit Education -- The Unfinished Business of Eloquentia Perfecta in Twenty- First- Century Jesuit Higher Education -- The New Eloquentia Perfecta Curriculum at Fordham -- Jesuit Rhetoric and the Core Curriculum at Loyola Marymount University -- Jesuit Ethos, Faculty- Owned Assessment, and the Organic Development of Rhetoric across the Curriculum at Seattle University -- Cura Personalis in Practice: Rhetoric’s Modern Legacy -- Service Learning and Discernment: Reality Working Th rough Resistance -- Networking Rhetoric for Jesuit Education in a New World -- What We Talk about When We Talk about Voice: Reintegrating the Oral in the Current Writing Classroom -- Reflection: Echoes of Jesuit Principles in Rhetorical Theories, Pedagogies, and Praxes -- Afterword: Technology, Diversity, and the Impression of Mission -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Index This groundbreaking collection explores the important ways Jesuits have employed rhetoric, the ancient art of persuasion and the current art of communications, from the sixteenth century to the present. Much of the history of how Jesuit traditions contributed to the development of rhetorical theory and pedagogy has been lost, effaced, or dispersed. As a result, those interested in Jesuit education and higher education in the United States, as well as scholars and teachers of rhetoric, are often unaware of this living 450-year-old tradition. Written by highly regarded scholars of rhetoric, composition, education, philosophy, and history, many based at Jesuit colleges and universities, the essays in this volume explore the tradition of Jesuit rhetorical education—that is, constructing “a more usable past” and a viable future for eloquentia perfecta, the Jesuits’ chief aim for the liberal arts. Intended to foster eloquence across the curriculum and into the world beyond, Jesuit rhetoric integrates intellectual rigor, broad knowledge, civic action, and spiritual discernment as the chief goals of the educational experience.Consummate scholars and rhetors, the early Jesuits employed all the intellectual and language arts as “contemplatives in action,” preaching and undertaking missionary, educational, and charitable works in the world. The study, pedagogy, and practice of classical grammar and rhetoric, adapted to Christian humanism, naturally provided a central focus of this powerful educational system as part of the Jesuit commitment to the Ministries of the Word. This book traces the development of Jesuit rhetoric in Renaissance Europe, follows its expansion to the United States, and documents its reemergence on campuses and in scholarly discussions across America in the twenty-first century.Traditions of Eloquence provides a wellspring of insight into the past, present, and future of Jesuit rhetorical traditions. In a period of ongoing reformulations and applications of Jesuit educational mission and identity, this collection of compelling essays helps provide historical context, a sense of continuity in current practice, and a platform for creating future curricula and pedagogy. Moreover it is a valuable resource for anyone interested in understanding a core aspect of the Jesuit educational heritage
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