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| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | 3 | |
| 1 | Erasmus, Rhetorical Theologian | 15 |
| 1 | Images of Erasmus | 15 |
| 2 | Humanism and Rhetorical Theology | 18 |
| 3 | Point of Departure, Sources, and Procedure | 28 |
| 4 | Ratio verae theologiae | 32 |
| 5 | Ecclesiastes sive De ratione concionandi | 39 |
| 6 | Ratio and Ecclesiastes Compared | 55 |
| 2 | Language, Literature, and Scripture | 61 |
| 1 | Language, Nature, and Culture | 61 |
| 2 | The Deterioration and Restoration of Language | 65 |
| 3 | Words and Ideas | 71 |
| 4 | Bonae litterae | 78 |
| 5 | Sacrae litterae | 81 |
| 6 | The Approach to Scripture | 89 |
| 3 | The Allegorical Nature of Scripture | 95 |
| 1 | Letter and Spirit | 95 |
| 2 | The Fourfold Sense of Scripture | 101 |
| 3 | Allegory and Accommodation | 106 |
| 4 | Allegory, Similitude, and Persuasion | 112 |
| 5 | Openness and Hiddenness | 118 |
| 6 | The Allegorical Method | 126 |
| 4 | Speech and Interpretation | 135 |
| 1 | Invention | 135 |
| 2 | Disposition | 142 |
| 3 | The Harmony of Christ | 148 |
| 4 | Theological Loci | 151 |
| 5 | Law and Gospel | 156 |
| 6 | The Variety of Persons, Times, and Things | 162 |
| 5 | The Virtues of Speech | 169 |
| 1 | Elocutio; puritas, perspicuitas | 169 |
| 2 | Aptum; collatio, commoditas | 176 |
| 3 | Ornatus; jucunditas, vehementia | 184 |
| 4 | Prudentia; judicium, consilium | 191 |
| 5 | Adfectus; ethos, pathos | 200 |
| 6 | Virtus; honestum, utilitas | 205 |
| Conclusion | 211 | |
| Abbreviations | 229 | |
| Notes | 231 | |
| Bibliography | 289 | |
| Index of Technical Terms | 299 |
