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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... person , meant freedom from proud display . True to his or her inward humility and unpretentiousness , the plain or unadorned person did not affect art , artifice , or elaboration ( OED , 1330 ) . In their attire , sim- ple people were ...
... person , meant freedom from proud display . True to his or her inward humility and unpretentiousness , the plain or unadorned person did not affect art , artifice , or elaboration ( OED , 1330 ) . In their attire , sim- ple people were ...
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... person practices no deceit ( 1500 onward ) ; the phrase " plain truth " still con- veys some of the unvarnished , uncoloured directness associated with the term . The last two senses of the word “ plain " are often synonymous with ...
... person practices no deceit ( 1500 onward ) ; the phrase " plain truth " still con- veys some of the unvarnished , uncoloured directness associated with the term . The last two senses of the word “ plain " are often synonymous with ...
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... person of Christ himself , especial- ly as understood and interpreted by St Paul , is a living sermon against all false gods , such as worldly knowledge , material wealth , or sensuous artifice , which may be served at the expense of ...
... person of Christ himself , especial- ly as understood and interpreted by St Paul , is a living sermon against all false gods , such as worldly knowledge , material wealth , or sensuous artifice , which may be served at the expense of ...
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... person , of- ten a servant whose social status involves servile , obsequious behaviour . The negative sense extends to the verb tapeinöo as well , " to make small or little , to humiliate , to weaken " ( 8 : 4 ) . Such humiliation may ...
... person , of- ten a servant whose social status involves servile , obsequious behaviour . The negative sense extends to the verb tapeinöo as well , " to make small or little , to humiliate , to weaken " ( 8 : 4 ) . Such humiliation may ...
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... person of Christ . Secondly , sermo humilis fittingly addresses " the social and cultural humilitas of those to whom the Christian doctrine is addressed and who are prepared to receive it " ( 43 ) . These include fish- ermen ...
... person of Christ . Secondly , sermo humilis fittingly addresses " the social and cultural humilitas of those to whom the Christian doctrine is addressed and who are prepared to receive it " ( 43 ) . These include fish- ermen ...
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