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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... fact is 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 ...
... fact is 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 ...
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... 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 , im- ages , furniture , and music , allows a critical ...
... 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 , im- ages , furniture , and music , allows a critical ...
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... fact for centuries . " The Church did not produce during its first dozen centu- ries , " concludes Murphy , " any coherent body of precepts that might be called a rhetoric of preaching . ” 3 A second complication is the appear- ance of ...
... fact for centuries . " The Church did not produce during its first dozen centu- ries , " concludes Murphy , " any coherent body of precepts that might be called a rhetoric of preaching . ” 3 A second complication is the appear- ance of ...
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... fact created . Modern religious applications of simplicity are equally re- strictive . The New Catholic Encyclopedia , for example , explains simplicity as a quality of individuals who have “ a disposition 12 Christian Plain Style.
... fact created . Modern religious applications of simplicity are equally re- strictive . The New Catholic Encyclopedia , for example , explains simplicity as a quality of individuals who have “ a disposition 12 Christian Plain Style.
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... fact , with metrical discourse or po- etry for artistic prominence , and audiences were less aware of the medium than they were of its level of rhetorical artistry , which could be highly ornamented or less figured . The latter was , of ...
... fact , with metrical discourse or po- etry for artistic prominence , and audiences were less aware of the medium than they were of its level of rhetorical artistry , which could be highly ornamented or less figured . The latter was , of ...
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