The rhetoric of religion: studies in logology

Introduction : on theology and logology

On words and the Word. First analogy ; Second analogy ; Third analogy ; Fourth analogy ; Fifth analogy ; Sixth analogy

Verbal action in St. Augustine's Confessions. Outline of the inquiry ; Of words here generally ; The beginning ; The end ; The middle, in sum ; En route ; Whence evil? ; Adolescent perversity ; The middle (conversion, turn, peripety) in detail ; The book of Monica ; What all is memory? ; To cling (Inhaerere) ; Trinitarian considerations that complicate the ascent ; Imagery, sensation, temptation and mediator ; In the beginning

; Mulitudes and abundances (ubertates) and increases ; Conversion of a word ; In conclusion

The first three chapters of Genesis. Outline of the inquiry ; On covenant and order ; Tautological cycle of terms for "order" ; Covenant and "counter-covenant" in Hobbes's Leviathan ; Principles of governance stated narratively ; Restatement, on death and mortification ; The narrative principle in imagery ; Dominion, guilt, sacrifice ; Final comparing of cyclical and rectilinear styles ; Logological epilogue ; Miscellaneous postscripts

Epilogue : prologue in heaven.