Dignity belongs to the conquered.

The most characteristic concern of rhetoric [is] the manipulation of men's beliefs for political ends....the basic function of rhetoric [is] the use of words by human agents to form attitudes or to induce actions in other human agents.

Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated.

For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status.

The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.

Language does our thinking for us.

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.