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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... clear , fa- miliar , and obvious . Here the simplicity is not a property of external re- ality but of the examining mind confronting this reality . However , in its search for simplicity the mind may lead the thinker into error . If in ...
... clear , fa- miliar , and obvious . Here the simplicity is not a property of external re- ality but of the examining mind confronting this reality . However , in its search for simplicity the mind may lead the thinker into error . If in ...
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... clearly to be admired . This study of simplicity deals with the positive , primarily religious at- titude towards what is ... clear application to a valued style or to literary effects . However , as early as 1380 the sense of the adverb ...
... clearly to be admired . This study of simplicity deals with the positive , primarily religious at- titude towards what is ... clear application to a valued style or to literary effects . However , as early as 1380 the sense of the adverb ...
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... clear or unobstructed . It is a short motion from this sense of open clarity to the eye to the sec- ond aspect of objects obvious or evident to the mind . For the four- teenth century , “ plain ” designates objects or abstractions that ...
... clear or unobstructed . It is a short motion from this sense of open clarity to the eye to the sec- ond aspect of objects obvious or evident to the mind . For the four- teenth century , “ plain ” designates objects or abstractions that ...
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... clearly , and intelligibly , without ambiguity or circumlocutions . Ultimately , both simplicity and plainness have a privative sense of ex- crescences removed , excesses trimmed , needless complexity rendered accessible , artifice ...
... clearly , and intelligibly , without ambiguity or circumlocutions . Ultimately , both simplicity and plainness have a privative sense of ex- crescences removed , excesses trimmed , needless complexity rendered accessible , artifice ...
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... clear line of descent or continuity between St Paul , Bernard of Clairvaux , and the American Shakers in their ... clearly stem from related purposes and statements of ends . The central purpose of the present study is to trace the ...
... clear line of descent or continuity between St Paul , Bernard of Clairvaux , and the American Shakers in their ... clearly stem from related purposes and statements of ends . The central purpose of the present study is to trace the ...
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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