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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... John Leyerle and Robin Harris of the University of Toronto ; Emrys Jones of Oxford ; and the late Herschel Baker of Harvard , who taught many recalcitrants to rethink seriously the cul- tural and literary implications of religious ...
... John Leyerle and Robin Harris of the University of Toronto ; Emrys Jones of Oxford ; and the late Herschel Baker of Harvard , who taught many recalcitrants to rethink seriously the cul- tural and literary implications of religious ...
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... John Bromyard , splendid by any literary standard , among the achievements of unsung and untutored artists who " know all the everyday sights of the streets , the ways of simple folk , even of domestic animals , and can reproduce them ...
... John Bromyard , splendid by any literary standard , among the achievements of unsung and untutored artists who " know all the everyday sights of the streets , the ways of simple folk , even of domestic animals , and can reproduce them ...
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... John N. King examines the ar- tistic choices that theology , polemics , and sectarian allegiances pressed upon often fiercely religious authors , including " the difficulties of de- termining the correct language for religious discourse ...
... John N. King examines the ar- tistic choices that theology , polemics , and sectarian allegiances pressed upon often fiercely religious authors , including " the difficulties of de- termining the correct language for religious discourse ...
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... John Downame , for example , praises the “ great simplicitie and wonderful plainness " in the scriptural stylings of the Holy Ghost , who is thus able to reach “ the capacitie of the most unlearned . ” God could have affected a lofty ...
... John Downame , for example , praises the “ great simplicitie and wonderful plainness " in the scriptural stylings of the Holy Ghost , who is thus able to reach “ the capacitie of the most unlearned . ” God could have affected a lofty ...
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Contenido
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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