Of sermons and soda water
Posted: January 30, 2013 at 3:31 a.m.
John Cardinal Newman once set down a list of seven rules for writing sermons. His rules apply not just to sermons but to rhetoric in general. Simple and direct as his rules were in the 19th Century, naturally they have fallen into neglect in our era of flash and fizz.
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Editorial, Pages 16 on 01/30/2013
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