<p>“<i>Persuasions of God</i> makes a major contribution to critical conversations concerning rhetoric and religion. As a post-Christian intervention, it deals skillfully with Jewish and Christian scriptures and especially with Christian theological literature as well as relevant work in rhetorical theory. As in his earlier scholarship, Paul Lynch is here not only in dialogue with various disciplinary communities; he also explicitly discusses and exemplifies how such dialogue should generously take place.”</p><p>—Steven Mailloux, author of <i>Rhetoric’s Pragmatism: Essays in Rhetorical Hermeneutics</i></p>

<p>“<i>Persuasions of God</i> is a theological and rhetorical masterpiece. Integrating a wide range of voices and resources, Lynch’s work achieves a remarkable integration—and simultaneous unsettling—of the boundaries between rhetoric and religion under the banner of ‘Theorhetoric.’ <i>Persuasions </i>is a work with profound implications for the fields of rhetoric and religious studies in the context of what Lynch identifies as a post-secular and post-Christian <i>Kairos</i>. It is a brilliant and beautifully written book.”</p><p>—Christian O. Lundberg, author of <i>Lacan in Public: Psychoanalysis and the Science of Rhetoric</i></p>

<p>“Out of the many good and important arguments of this book, I will limit myself to highlighting the following: Paul Lynch’s expansion of both René Girard’s mimetic theory and the study of rhetoric through his efforts to create a <i>theorhetoric</i> (a term he borrows from Steven Mailloux), a new way of speaking to, for, and about God; that it represents the first sustained scholarly effort to investigate the relationship between the thought of Girard and Kenneth Burke; and, finally, that it proposes a way of speaking about Christianity that will be welcomed by some and others will find welcoming.”</p><p>—Jeremiah Alberg <i>The European Legacy</i></p>