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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... culture of religion . To the administrators and staff I owe a special debt of gratitude . Equally generous with their more specialized collections on the campus of the University of Toronto were the libraries of Emmanuel , Knox ...
... culture of religion . To the administrators and staff I owe a special debt of gratitude . Equally generous with their more specialized collections on the campus of the University of Toronto were the libraries of Emmanuel , Knox ...
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... . In creative literature , simplicity is a praiseworthy quality only inter- mittently ; richly woven , highly rhetorical , plaited texts constitute the normative practice of the Christian church in the historical culture 5 Introduction.
... . In creative literature , simplicity is a praiseworthy quality only inter- mittently ; richly woven , highly rhetorical , plaited texts constitute the normative practice of the Christian church in the historical culture 5 Introduction.
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... culture of western Europe . It is often easier , in fact , to describe simplicity not in terms of literary texts but through parallel arts and cultural achieve- ments , where the tangibility of the instrument , as in diet , clothing ...
... culture of western Europe . It is often easier , in fact , to describe simplicity not in terms of literary texts but through parallel arts and cultural achieve- ments , where the tangibility of the instrument , as in diet , clothing ...
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... culture signifies that they lack physical adornment . These items could have been ornately , decoratively embellished , but they have not been . Hair , for example , worn straight , not curled , is plain ( 1386 onward ) , as is any ...
... culture signifies that they lack physical adornment . These items could have been ornately , decoratively embellished , but they have not been . Hair , for example , worn straight , not curled , is plain ( 1386 onward ) , as is any ...
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... mere covering of expres- sion ; and to concentrate on their relationship to the prime giver of the gifts being enjoyed , God . CHAPTER ONE Christian Literary Culture and the Study of Simplicity 8 Christian Plain Style.
... mere covering of expres- sion ; and to concentrate on their relationship to the prime giver of the gifts being enjoyed , God . CHAPTER ONE Christian Literary Culture and the Study of Simplicity 8 Christian Plain Style.
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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