Abstract
New Testament rhetoric, especially proclamation, has more in common with Sophistic rhetoric than with the philosophical rhetorics of Plato and Aristotle. It can be characterized as kairotic rhetoric. Analysis of Gorgias’ Helen suggests three types of kairos: a moment of poetic creation, a stasis of indecision, and a release of irrational power in the form of logos. Similar meanings of kairos as times of inspiration can be discovered in the New Testament. The Sophistic and Christian concepts of kairos taken together suggest that the rhetoric of belief is a form of epideictic rhetoric, originally thought of as a type of impromptu speaking. Epistemologically different than epistemic or doxastic rhetoric, this form of rhetoric, aletheiac, is an alternative to both.
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