Words Point Beyond Themselves
Language allows human beings to name creation, preserve memory, make promises, tell stories, pray, teach, and comfort. Its ordinary usefulness is remarkable. A Christian education receives this capacity with gratitude and studies it carefully.
Accuracy Is a Moral Concern
A misplaced modifier may be amusing, but careless or manipulative language can also do real harm. Grammar helps students say what they mean. Logic helps them test what words claim. Rhetoric helps them consider how communication affects an audience.
Beauty Belongs with Truth
Students should encounter sentences, poems, speeches, and stories that are not only correct but beautiful. Well-made language enlarges imagination and gives form to experiences that might otherwise remain difficult to express.
Speaking as a Neighbor
Christian rhetoric asks more than whether words are effective. Are they honest? Are they fitting? Do they honor the person who hears them? Students learn that eloquence reaches its proper purpose when truth is spoken in love.
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