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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... such as lowliness , sincerity , and modesty to the creators of simple things . The moral and aesthetic senses of simplicity are here closely entwined ; indeed , for nearly all of the figures in the 4 Christian Plain Style.
... such as lowliness , sincerity , and modesty to the creators of simple things . The moral and aesthetic senses of simplicity are here closely entwined ; indeed , for nearly all of the figures in the 4 Christian Plain Style.
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... figures in the following study , the created artifact becomes an emblem or symbol of the maker's character , and hence artistic plainness scorning ornateness , and everything ostenta- tiously elaborate both in the making and in the ...
... figures in the following study , the created artifact becomes an emblem or symbol of the maker's character , and hence artistic plainness scorning ornateness , and everything ostenta- tiously elaborate both in the making and in the ...
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... figures found in the Bible itself has meant that the urge for artistic plainness in Christian culture has enjoyed a prescriptive power over the centuries . It is an ideal that breaks out sporadically within the larger framework of ...
... figures found in the Bible itself has meant that the urge for artistic plainness in Christian culture has enjoyed a prescriptive power over the centuries . It is an ideal that breaks out sporadically within the larger framework of ...
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... figures such as Job and Jacob - who is a vir simplex ( Vulg . Gen. 25:27 ) - perform actions that do not contradict their words ; in their simplicity and integrity of heart , their inward unity , they both serve God . Christ enriches ...
... figures such as Job and Jacob - who is a vir simplex ( Vulg . Gen. 25:27 ) - perform actions that do not contradict their words ; in their simplicity and integrity of heart , their inward unity , they both serve God . Christ enriches ...
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... figure found in the elegantly poeticized Greek prose of Gorgias . Norden's most dramatic finding is a contradiction : while many churchmen praise the low style , few practice it , cultivating rather the complex artistry of a high style ...
... figure found in the elegantly poeticized Greek prose of Gorgias . Norden's most dramatic finding is a contradiction : while many churchmen praise the low style , few practice it , cultivating rather the complex artistry of a high style ...
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