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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... audiences , clarity in religious discourse has the aura of a moral virtue . The noun " simplicity " appeared first in Chaucer in 1374 , but it was not until the Renaissance that it had a clear application to a valued style or to ...
... audiences , clarity in religious discourse has the aura of a moral virtue . The noun " simplicity " appeared first in Chaucer in 1374 , but it was not until the Renaissance that it had a clear application to a valued style or to ...
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... culture have aimed throughout history . Plainness in expression enables audiences to measure without distraction the spiritual , moral quality of the agent ; to attend to the substance as opposed to the mere 7 Introduction.
... culture have aimed throughout history . Plainness in expression enables audiences to measure without distraction the spiritual , moral quality of the agent ; to attend to the substance as opposed to the mere 7 Introduction.
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... audience in a 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 ...
... audience in a 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 ...
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... audience , in relation to God , as it receives , uses , and enjoys the gifts so crafted . What morally simple and humble attitude does the truly Christian artist cultivate ? Above all , he or she avoids pride by making all achieve- ment ...
... audience , in relation to God , as it receives , uses , and enjoys the gifts so crafted . What morally simple and humble attitude does the truly Christian artist cultivate ? Above all , he or she avoids pride by making all achieve- ment ...
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... audiences , they also re- frain from the paint , decoration , and persuasive varnish so vital to in- substantial , sophistical falsehoods . The naked , unaided , unadorned , and bare quality of truth runs through Christian aesthetic ...
... audiences , they also re- frain from the paint , decoration , and persuasive varnish so vital to in- substantial , sophistical falsehoods . The naked , unaided , unadorned , and bare quality of truth runs through Christian aesthetic ...
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