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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... manners , they lead frugal lives , dress simply , and live unnoticed ( 1613 ) . The luxury and ostentation of the privileged is not theirs . As a euphemism ( 1794 onward ) , the plain person signified one lacking the gift of a fine ...
... manners , they lead frugal lives , dress simply , and live unnoticed ( 1613 ) . The luxury and ostentation of the privileged is not theirs . As a euphemism ( 1794 onward ) , the plain person signified one lacking the gift of a fine ...
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... manner . The remaining prescriptions governing Christian conduct and cul- ture provide records of literary thought by indirection and analogy . Exegesis , for example , often stops for analysis of the instructions from David on music or ...
... manner . The remaining prescriptions governing Christian conduct and cul- ture provide records of literary thought by indirection and analogy . Exegesis , for example , often stops for analysis of the instructions from David on music or ...
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... manner convey the reality of Spirit . The simplicity of God's perfection is intensely problematic because “ everything con- fronting man in experience admits of composition of some kind , ” and therefore Christians must employ a ...
... manner convey the reality of Spirit . The simplicity of God's perfection is intensely problematic because “ everything con- fronting man in experience admits of composition of some kind , ” and therefore Christians must employ a ...
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... manner . The cultivation of abbreviatio , the resolve to be brief , may merely be an impulse answer- ing the more conventional fondness for dilatatio and amplificatio and not really an independent value pursued for itself . The plain ...
... manner . The cultivation of abbreviatio , the resolve to be brief , may merely be an impulse answer- ing the more conventional fondness for dilatatio and amplificatio and not really an independent value pursued for itself . The plain ...
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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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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