Romancing The Difference: Kenneth Burke, Bob Jones University, And The Rhetoric Ofreligious Fundamentalism (studies In Rhetoric And Religion)

Romancing the Difference Studies in Rhetoric and Religion 4 Editorial Board Martin J. Medhurst Editorial Board Chair Baylor University Vanessa B. Beasley University of Georgia Randall L. Bytwerk Calvin College Michael W. Casey Pepperdine University James M. Farrell University of New Hampshire James A. Herrick Hope College Michael J. Hyde Wake Forest University Thomas M. Lessl University of Georgia Romancing the Difference Kenneth Burke, Bob Jones University, and the Rhetoric of Religious Fundamentalism Camille Kaminski Lewis Baylor University Press © 2007 by Baylor University Press Waco, Texas 76798 All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission in writing of Baylor University Press. Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Cover design by Cynthia Dunne, Blue Farm Graphics Cover illustration is Vashti Refuses the King’s Summons, Edwin Long, R.A., from the Bob Jones University Collection. Used by permission. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lewis, Camille Kaminski. Romancing the difference : Kenneth Burke, Bob Jones University, and the rhetoric of religious fundamentalism / Camille Kaminski Lewis. p. cm. -- (Studies in rhetoric and religion ; 4) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-60258-003-9 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Fundamentalism. 2. Rhetoric--Philosophy. 3. English language--United States--Rhetoric. 4. Bob Jones University. 5. Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993. I. Title. BT82.2.L49 2007 230'.04626--dc22 2007029189 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper with a minimum of 30% pcw content. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Ecclesiastes 3:11 Dedicated to Isaac and Gavin So that you would know That beauty resides not in a word or a creed; The Beauty lives within you since you have believed. contents Preface xi 1 Imagining Tragedy, Comedy, and Romance 1 2 Cenotaphs and Photographs 13 3 The Romantic Pied Piper 39 4 Curing the Culture with Homeopathy, Allopathy, and Sympathy 65 5 Unfit Fitness 87 Conclusion 127 Notes 133 Bibliography 147 Index 159 ix preface The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society. A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power; or to persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been interesting to the human passions, have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to cooperate f