Questions on Sacred Speech  

Also important is not just the content, but the mode of deliver: Bowen asks  the question, is a sermon more powerful if it is planned beforehand or if it is delivered spontaneously, as inspired by the Holy Ghost

Also, debates about how speech WORKS: does a prayer or ritual work directly on the universe, or does it simply go to a deity or a god?

Holiness Churches: focus on relationship between individual and God

These churches believe that the Holy Ghost visit them and lets them speak in tongues

Why do they handle snakes and drink poison?  God will protect them---sign of God’s grace (from 16 Mark—p 166 and 2 Acts)

The divine enters them by way of the Holy Ghost; grace through individual experience (speech) is key to Protestantism; how is this different from Catholicism? Bowen p 168

Bowen, what did “fundamentalist” come to mean?

This came out of 20^th century Protestantism

Churches that emphasized the primacy of scripture and literal reading of; thus, not interpretation of scripture or commentary on

What is the role of speech here?  What is witnessing?

What does conversion mean? How does she look at conversion?

What does it mean to “come under conviction”?

What happens at the moment of salvation?

Why is this rhetoric of conversion so effective?

How does language convict and convert the unsaved?

How did people in this community view Harding?

Reverend Cantrell: what characterized his rhetoric in talks with Harding?

How did he reframe the appointment with Harding?

How does rhetoric induce liminality?

Why did he include killing his son?