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The Rhetoric of Lewis and Sayers w/ Dr. Jim Beitler

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Jonathan Edwards and Sayers

There is a sense in which her works are kind of haunting. They're they can be scary. But you know, I think Jonathan Edwards appeal to fear might be a little bit more pronounced. So what was creepy is his delivery had no emotion to it. Look straight ahead at the bell rope and they said he would stare the bell rope off. He wouldn't throw any emotional manipulation into it. And so she's really trying to show it to us vividly. So it's just really remarkable what she does. An old phrase for radio drama was theater of the mind. Theater of the mindYeah. What he described that was like theater of theMind. Yeah. Can we actually have a

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