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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... artifice and com- plexity . A second and related objection to such an undertaking points out that abstractions such as simplicity are always at the mercy of the variable meanings which one assigns to them or perceives in them . In his ...
... artifice and com- plexity . A second and related objection to such an undertaking points out that abstractions such as simplicity are always at the mercy of the variable meanings which one assigns to them or perceives in them . In his ...
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... artifice , or elaboration ( OED , 1330 ) . In their attire , sim- ple people were homely , plain , and inelegant , as they might also be in diet , abode , and living . The description " simple " could be scornful of the poor , humble ...
... artifice , or elaboration ( OED , 1330 ) . In their attire , sim- ple people were homely , plain , and inelegant , as they might also be in diet , abode , and living . The description " simple " could be scornful of the poor , humble ...
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... artifice reduced , and ornament denied . These negative actions make possible three positive goals , towards which the Christian advocates of a more biblical , scriptural , and less worldly culture have aimed throughout history ...
... artifice reduced , and ornament denied . These negative actions make possible three positive goals , towards which the Christian advocates of a more biblical , scriptural , and less worldly culture have aimed throughout history ...
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... artifice and the grandest , richest styles humanly possible . ' Not only the humanism of church leaders , who highly value human achievement , including a properly cleansed pagan inheritance complete with its arts , stylistic cat ...
... artifice and the grandest , richest styles humanly possible . ' Not only the humanism of church leaders , who highly value human achievement , including a properly cleansed pagan inheritance complete with its arts , stylistic cat ...
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... artifice of art in general to the imagery of harlots , Christian polemic in the ultraspiritualist tradition has pushed the prac- tice and theory of Christianized art towards some ingenious accommo- dations , just as it has kept alive ...
... artifice of art in general to the imagery of harlots , Christian polemic in the ultraspiritualist tradition has pushed the prac- tice and theory of Christianized art towards some ingenious accommo- dations , just as it has kept alive ...
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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Christian Plain Style: The Evolution of a Spiritual Ideal Peter Auski Sin vista previa disponible - 1995 |
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