Prophecy without Contempt

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Prophecy without Contempt is written by Cathleen Kaveny and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674969383 (ISBN 10) and 9780674969384 (ISBN 13).

The culture wars have as much to do with rhetorical style as moral substance. Cathleen Kaveny focuses on a powerful stream of religious discourse in American political speech: the Biblical rhetoric of prophetic indictment. It can be strong medicine against threats to the body politic, she shows, but used injudiciously it does more harm than good.