Adamczewski, Bartosz (Wyższe Seminarium Duchowne Diecezji Warszawsko-Praskiej, 2008)
The Letter to Philemon contains rich and manifold strategy of persuasion. Its literary form comprises elements of various epistolary types. It contains various rhetoric means of influencing the recipient. Their common aim is transformation of the intended reader’s world-view. The methods of persuasion, applied by Paul in the Letter to Philemon, may and should be employed also in the pastoral activity of the modem Church.
