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The Christian faith depends to a great degree on persuasion. In one of his letters to early Christians, the apostle Paul wrote, “Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone” (Col. 4:6). Yet rhetoric—the art of persuasion—has been largely ignored by most Christians. In this book, James Beitler seeks to renew interest in and hunger...

assessment, noting that Lewis’s “self-abnegation is present throughout his career.”28 I agree that Lewis does not often hold himself up as a model for other Christians to imitate and that he tends toward self-abnegation, especially when writing about faith. However, I think Ward’s claim that Lewis’s “Christian persona” is rarely visible goes too far, limiting our understanding of what such a persona can entail. While it may be true that Lewis seldom discusses his practice of Christianity in the first
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