Ironically, "moral theology," or the ancient practices from which the discipline emerged, has a rich heritage of biblical, political, and ecclesial power speech of prophetic indictment, parrhesia, deliberation, and of course,
paraenesis or traditional moral exhortation.
Church in Crisis: Ecclesiology and
Paraenesis in Clement of Rome, by Barbara Ellen Bowe.
8, 183-212)"; Vincent Zarini, "Ennode entre Prudence, Ambroise et le 'monde': a propos de deux poemes de la
Paraenesis didascalia"; Michael Roberts, "Stylistic Innovation and Variation in the Poetry of Venantius Fortunatus"; Michel Jean-Louis Perrin, "L'utilisation des citations bibliques par l'abbe Raban Maur dans le De humore parentum (834): quelques considerations litteraires, historiques et politiques"; and Sylvain Leroy, "La recriture des Noces de Cana dans le De Gratia Novi Testamenti (XIe s.): de la metamorphose de l'eau a la mutation d'un genre." The second subsection, on the transmission of texts, textual criticism, and literary criticism, presents four works: Benoit Gain, "Les epitaphes de Gregoire de Nazianze sur son ami Basile de Cesaree.
A., <<"And Rose up to Play": Midrash and
Paraenesis in 1 Corinthians 10:1-22 >>, Journal for the Study of the New Testament 16 (1982) 64-78.
Some manuals and older studies classify the church speech in four genres of preaches spoken in liturgical context: homilies, proper preaches,
paraenesis (4) and religious lectures.
He examines the distinguishing features in their respective views on the new existence; how, within their distinctive "in Christ" theologies, the author expects believers to carry out the
paraenesis; and whether the differences might reflect theological traditions as well as contingent circumstances of the recipients.
This can be exemplified by the
paraenesis in Romans 15:7-12.
Their biblical interpretations generally emphasized moral
paraenesis and Christology.
For example, 'Chambers Dictionary' lists
PARAENESIS, 'Webster's 2nd' has NONIMITATIVE and 'Dorland's Medical Dictionary' HYPOPOROSIS.
(69) For Pacian's text, see
Paraenesis sive exhortatorius libellus ad poenitentiam, 1, in PL, 13, col.