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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... believers excessively in their senses , bodies , and corporeity . That this instinct for lowness , simplicity , and asceticism in artistic mat- ters can be corroborated by citing specific texts and figures found in the Bible itself has ...
... believers excessively in their senses , bodies , and corporeity . That this instinct for lowness , simplicity , and asceticism in artistic mat- ters can be corroborated by citing specific texts and figures found in the Bible itself has ...
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... believers who do not seek complications.4 The aesthetic dimension pertains , if at all , to the agents who pursue art , rather than to the arti- fact created . Modern religious applications of simplicity are equally re- strictive . The ...
... believers who do not seek complications.4 The aesthetic dimension pertains , if at all , to the agents who pursue art , rather than to the arti- fact created . Modern religious applications of simplicity are equally re- strictive . The ...
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... believer away from intense con- centration upon Spirit in the temple of the inward heart and mind , art- ful words can anchor a Christian in the world of sense and sensation . Moreover , engaging rhythms , rhyme , visual metaphors ...
... believer away from intense con- centration upon Spirit in the temple of the inward heart and mind , art- ful words can anchor a Christian in the world of sense and sensation . Moreover , engaging rhythms , rhyme , visual metaphors ...
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... believer . Spicą documents amply the struggle of the Vulgate to convey the root Hebrew word through a variety of moral epithets , including immaculatus , innocens , and perfectus , all of which suit the seekers of a spiritually complete ...
... believer . Spicą documents amply the struggle of the Vulgate to convey the root Hebrew word through a variety of moral epithets , including immaculatus , innocens , and perfectus , all of which suit the seekers of a spiritually complete ...
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... pejorative connotation is weakened by the value placed on lowly believers , who are no longer inferior spiritually before God . The word humilitas first acquires the commendatory meaning " hu- 20 Christian Plain Style.
... pejorative connotation is weakened by the value placed on lowly believers , who are no longer inferior spiritually before God . The word humilitas first acquires the commendatory meaning " hu- 20 Christian Plain Style.
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