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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... find " Hesperian fables , true , / If true , here only . ' " " For the time , encouragement , and research funding which made possible my increasingly exotic forays into areas remote from literature , I must thank first the University ...
... find " Hesperian fables , true , / If true , here only . ' " " For the time , encouragement , and research funding which made possible my increasingly exotic forays into areas remote from literature , I must thank first the University ...
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... find here something strange , if not rich ; the bones remain my own , but for their pearls over the years I must thank John Leyerle and Robin Harris of the University of Toronto ; Emrys Jones of Oxford ; and the late Herschel Baker of ...
... find here something strange , if not rich ; the bones remain my own , but for their pearls over the years I must thank John Leyerle and Robin Harris of the University of Toronto ; Emrys Jones of Oxford ; and the late Herschel Baker of ...
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... finds simplicitas in the teaching of both Christ and Paul . It belongs to those who observe the doctrines of Christ in " singleness of heart " ( Acts 2:46 , simplicitate cordis ) or who have purity of intention and righteous hearts . It ...
... finds simplicitas in the teaching of both Christ and Paul . It belongs to those who observe the doctrines of Christ in " singleness of heart " ( Acts 2:46 , simplicitate cordis ) or who have purity of intention and righteous hearts . It ...
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... finds most noteworthy is the Christian reverence for a low style in which rhetorical figuration of a conventionally classical order is absent . Christian literature lacks the classical esteem for " beauty of form ” ( Formenschönheit ) ...
... finds most noteworthy is the Christian reverence for a low style in which rhetorical figuration of a conventionally classical order is absent . Christian literature lacks the classical esteem for " beauty of form ” ( Formenschönheit ) ...
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... find in Scripture most of the rhetorical figures current in the schools of antiquity . Even Jerome , who had once apologized for " the simplicity and occasional crudeness in expression " of the Bible , 21 could write in his preface to ...
... find in Scripture most of the rhetorical figures current in the schools of antiquity . Even Jerome , who had once apologized for " the simplicity and occasional crudeness in expression " of the Bible , 21 could write in his preface to ...
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