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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... knowledge the expert editorial assistance of Elizabeth Hulse , whose meticulous eye fell upon many of the infelicities and errors in an un- ruly text . Other acknowledgments are brief and more private but no less sig- nificant . My wife ...
... knowledge the expert editorial assistance of Elizabeth Hulse , whose meticulous eye fell upon many of the infelicities and errors in an un- ruly text . Other acknowledgments are brief and more private but no less sig- nificant . My wife ...
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... knowledge , skill , or cunning , a defect useful only , if at all , for the dis- arming or charming of the suspicious . These senses of " simplicity ” and “ simple ” are tangential to my major purpose , though they do clarify the range ...
... knowledge , skill , or cunning , a defect useful only , if at all , for the dis- arming or charming of the suspicious . These senses of " simplicity ” and “ simple ” are tangential to my major purpose , though they do clarify the range ...
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... knowledge , material wealth , or sensuous artifice , which may be served at the expense of Spirit , the true image . Historically , calls for the destruction of false objects of worship have oc- curred at moments announcing Christian ...
... knowledge , material wealth , or sensuous artifice , which may be served at the expense of Spirit , the true image . Historically , calls for the destruction of false objects of worship have oc- curred at moments announcing Christian ...
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... knowledge in its relation to the spiritual life and to the relationship between words and reality . Lack of knowledge and judgment , or a contemptible naïveté , has very little to do with the fundamental religious strength of the term ...
... knowledge in its relation to the spiritual life and to the relationship between words and reality . Lack of knowledge and judgment , or a contemptible naïveté , has very little to do with the fundamental religious strength of the term ...
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... knowledge . He finds an early Christian determination to proclaim the gospel to illiter- ate workers and " to the whole human race " ( Jerome , ep . 49 ) , not only to schools of philosophers ; to be concerned about those poor in spirit ...
... knowledge . He finds an early Christian determination to proclaim the gospel to illiter- ate workers and " to the whole human race " ( Jerome , ep . 49 ) , not only to schools of philosophers ; to be concerned about those poor in spirit ...
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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