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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... example , C.S. Lewis noted that the word " sim- ple " has “ rather an atmosphere than anything that can be called a meaning . ” 1 As denotative epithet , “ simple ” has long frustrated lexicog- raphers : the Oxford English Dictionary ...
... example , C.S. Lewis noted that the word " sim- ple " has “ rather an atmosphere than anything that can be called a meaning . ” 1 As denotative epithet , “ simple ” has long frustrated lexicog- raphers : the Oxford English Dictionary ...
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... example , a writer typically re- moves words or eliminates rhetorical play . Most creative prose and po- etry , however , because it is the product of immense craftsmanship and art and in its surface often appeals exquisitely to all the ...
... example , a writer typically re- moves words or eliminates rhetorical play . Most creative prose and po- etry , however , because it is the product of immense craftsmanship and art and in its surface often appeals exquisitely to all the ...
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... example , worn straight , not curled , is plain ( 1386 onward ) , as is any other visible object lacking patterning , coloration , or adornment . In time , even food , if left without elaborate preparation , rich seasoning , or complex ...
... example , worn straight , not curled , is plain ( 1386 onward ) , as is any other visible object lacking patterning , coloration , or adornment . In time , even food , if left without elaborate preparation , rich seasoning , or complex ...
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... example , often stops for analysis of the instructions from David on music or Paul on ornament , and their injunctions and model become prescriptive . Above all other patterns stands the spiritual speaking of Christ , so mysterious ...
... example , often stops for analysis of the instructions from David on music or Paul on ornament , and their injunctions and model become prescriptive . Above all other patterns stands the spiritual speaking of Christ , so mysterious ...
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... example , very difficult to understand ( 2 : 499 ) . Such infelicity , however , was deliberate . Norden cites Arnobius and Jerome as major advocates of simplicitas and rusticitas in discourse , and of being indoctus ( “ unlearned ...
... example , very difficult to understand ( 2 : 499 ) . Such infelicity , however , was deliberate . Norden cites Arnobius and Jerome as major advocates of simplicitas and rusticitas in discourse , and of being indoctus ( “ unlearned ...
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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