Christian Plain Style: The Evolution of a Spiritual IdealMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1995 M01 3 - 384 páginas Locating the roots of the plain style in secular and philosophic classicism, Auksi examines theories on classical rhetoric from Demetrius and Dionysius of Halicarnassus to Cicero and Quintilian. He shows how biblicists deliberately transformed a heathen mode, and demonstrates that rhetoric served a pragmatic function among the church fathers. He also discusses the different responses of Renaissance translators, rhetors, polemicists, and humanists to the stylized medieval inheritance, paying particular attention to the issue of sacred plainness in preaching. The epilogue provides a convincing argument for the decline of the plain style in the late seventeenth century and describes how the almost vanished ideal of plainness was transformed by Methodists, Quakers, Mennonites, Amish, and Hutterites. |
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The Evolution of a Spiritual Ideal Peter Auski. CHAPTER ONE Christian Literary Culture and the Study of Simplicity To art historians , the visible grandeur of the artistic achievements by the Christian church in the history of Europe ...
The Evolution of a Spiritual Ideal Peter Auski. CHAPTER ONE Christian Literary Culture and the Study of Simplicity To art historians , the visible grandeur of the artistic achievements by the Christian church in the history of Europe ...
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... Christian setting . Truth , they point out , does not need to be decked out in self - aggrandizing , duplicitous , or ostentatious language . Christian students need to understand uncomplicated pre- cepts quickly and lucidly ; Christian ...
... Christian setting . Truth , they point out , does not need to be decked out in self - aggrandizing , duplicitous , or ostentatious language . Christian students need to understand uncomplicated pre- cepts quickly and lucidly ; Christian ...
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... Christian concept , the simplicity of God on the other defies all human comprehension since it denies to him all phys- ical , logical , or metaphysical composition . To the Israelites , Jehovah had revealed himself as " Who Is , " that ...
... Christian concept , the simplicity of God on the other defies all human comprehension since it denies to him all phys- ical , logical , or metaphysical composition . To the Israelites , Jehovah had revealed himself as " Who Is , " that ...
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... Christian aesthetic theory like a first principle . Christ and Paul are the clearest models of a selfless , God - directed power over the arts of language in the cause of spiritual teaching , arts which seem to owe little to worldly ...
... Christian aesthetic theory like a first principle . Christ and Paul are the clearest models of a selfless , God - directed power over the arts of language in the cause of spiritual teaching , arts which seem to owe little to worldly ...
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... Christian philos- ophy , especially in the thought of Jerome , Basil , and Eusebius . Jerome valued holy rusticity more than verbose , sinful eloquence ; Basil wrote that God inspected , not words , but simplicity of heart ; and ...
... Christian philos- ophy , especially in the thought of Jerome , Basil , and Eusebius . Jerome valued holy rusticity more than verbose , sinful eloquence ; Basil wrote that God inspected , not words , but simplicity of heart ; and ...
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2 The Plain Style in Classical Rhetoric | 33 |
3 Scripture and the Creative Motive | 67 |
Augustine and Paul | 110 |
5 The Church Fathers and Christian Style | 144 |
6 Medieval Rhetoric and the Art of Simplicity | 174 |
The Major Reformers | 203 |
Sources Contexts and Uses | 232 |
9 Spiritual Rhetoric and the English Reformation | 266 |
Decline and Transformation | 304 |
Notes | 311 |
Bibliography | 337 |
Index | 365 |
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Términos y frases comunes
adornment apostle appears Aristotle Arnobius artifice artistic artistry artless audience Augustine Augustine's beauty Bible biblical Calvin century Christ Christian rhetor church Cicero Ciceronian classical rhetoric Clement of Alexandria clothing complex creature culture Demosthenes diction discourse divine elegant eloquence embellishment English Reformation example excessive expression figures gifts God's Gospel grand style Greek Gregory Gregory of Nazianzus Hilary of Poitiers Holy homiletic human humanistic humility ical images inspired instruction Isocrates Jerome John Lactantius language Latin learning literary low style lowly Luther Lysias matter means medieval metaphors mind mode nature orator Origen ornaments outward pagan patristic Paul Paul's Pauline plain style Plato preacher preaching prophets prose Puritan Quintilian Reformation regenerate religious Renaissance Scripture Scripture's secular sense sensuous sermon simple simplicitas simplicity skill speaker speaking speech spiritual Stoic stylistic teaching Tertullian texts theme things thought tion tradition truth unadorned verbal wisdom words worldly worship writes Zwingli