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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 45
Página x
... kind teachers I am grateful . For her professional and patient preparation of the final manuscript , Jean Maybrey deserves notable words of praise . I should also like to ac- knowledge the expert editorial assistance of Elizabeth Hulse ...
... kind teachers I am grateful . For her professional and patient preparation of the final manuscript , Jean Maybrey deserves notable words of praise . I should also like to ac- knowledge the expert editorial assistance of Elizabeth Hulse ...
Página 11
... kind of thinking that leaves few records " ( 300 ) . The evidence which does remain can be found in those relentlessly didactic treatises or homilitic manuals which become , in effect , the major means through which the Church explores ...
... kind of thinking that leaves few records " ( 300 ) . The evidence which does remain can be found in those relentlessly didactic treatises or homilitic manuals which become , in effect , the major means through which the Church explores ...
Página 13
... kind , ” and hence a singleness of purpose and purity of intention in the search for God . If the simplicity of moral agents on the one hand is a central and intelligible Christian concept , the simplicity of God on the other defies all ...
... kind , ” and hence a singleness of purpose and purity of intention in the search for God . If the simplicity of moral agents on the one hand is a central and intelligible Christian concept , the simplicity of God on the other defies all ...
Página 27
... kind of communi- cation in prose . Yet what of the reformation - minded minister who would not or could not acknowledge Seneca , Tacitus , or anything pagan as the inspi- ration for plain sermonizing ? Those aspects of the Renaissance ...
... kind of communi- cation in prose . Yet what of the reformation - minded minister who would not or could not acknowledge Seneca , Tacitus , or anything pagan as the inspi- ration for plain sermonizing ? Those aspects of the Renaissance ...
Página 29
... kind , but his prophets should be plain and perspicuous in style , help- ing the blind to see through language to the truth of Scripture . ... Miller admits that plainness , naked simplicity , and perspicacity are " relative concepts ...
... kind , but his prophets should be plain and perspicuous in style , help- ing the blind to see through language to the truth of Scripture . ... Miller admits that plainness , naked simplicity , and perspicacity are " relative concepts ...
Contenido
3 | |
9 | |
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 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
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