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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... biblical , patristic , medieval , and Renaissance primary sources , he relates the historical impulse in the Christian church of western Europe to simplify the arts that it has used and appropriated to the tensions between art and ...
... biblical , patristic , medieval , and Renaissance primary sources , he relates the historical impulse in the Christian church of western Europe to simplify the arts that it has used and appropriated to the tensions between art and ...
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... Biblical Literature JEGP Journal of English and Germanic Philology JMRS Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies JR Journal of Religion JTS Journal of Theological Studies LCC Library of Christian Classics Abbreviations.
... Biblical Literature JEGP Journal of English and Germanic Philology JMRS Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies JR Journal of Religion JTS Journal of Theological Studies LCC Library of Christian Classics Abbreviations.
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... biblical terms the simple are innocent and harmless , and praised as such , but to the world the same may ap- pear simple - minded or be called simpletons , ignorant , credulous , and unsuspecting . To the worldly , simplicity typically ...
... biblical terms the simple are innocent and harmless , and praised as such , but to the world the same may ap- pear simple - minded or be called simpletons , ignorant , credulous , and unsuspecting . To the worldly , simplicity typically ...
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... biblical , scriptural , and less worldly 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 ...
... biblical , scriptural , and less worldly 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 ...
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... biblical and Greek esti- mation to a " different understanding of man " ( 8:11 ) . The Greek con- cept of free man leads to a contempt for those lacking freedom , while the biblical assumption is otherwise . " In Israel and post ...
... biblical and Greek esti- mation to a " different understanding of man " ( 8:11 ) . The Greek con- cept of free man leads to a contempt for those lacking freedom , while the biblical assumption is otherwise . " In Israel and post ...
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