Rhetoric’s domain expanded to spreading the Christian faith through preaching. Since only the elite classes benefited from education, the majority of people, who in the lower class, were not literate and could not read the bible. Therefore, it was up to a certain few to preach the word of God.

St. Augustine was influential during the years just before the collapse of the Roman Empire. During this cultural context he was able to exert his influence at the monastery in Hippo. Rhetoric in the form of the Christian faith helped produce a world in which Christianity became one of the most practiced religions to this day.

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