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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... prose and po- etry , however , because it is the product of immense craftsmanship and art and in its surface often appeals exquisitely to all the senses , admits simplicity principally as a contrast to innate complexity or as a ubiqui ...
... prose and po- etry , however , because it is the product of immense craftsmanship and art and in its surface often appeals exquisitely to all the senses , admits simplicity principally as a contrast to innate complexity or as a ubiqui ...
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... prose , and sometimes poetry , deliberately eschewing conventional rhe- torical figuration and ornamental effects.7 The term " plain , ” in other words , has been gradually appropriated as a description for a religious culture which in ...
... prose , and sometimes poetry , deliberately eschewing conventional rhe- torical figuration and ornamental effects.7 The term " plain , ” in other words , has been gradually appropriated as a description for a religious culture which in ...
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... prose from classical culture to the Renaissance in a massive , sweeping synthesis that allows him to notice certain peculiarities of Christian literature and styles , especially in the framing context of clas- sical literary values ...
... prose from classical culture to the Renaissance in a massive , sweeping synthesis that allows him to notice certain peculiarities of Christian literature and styles , especially in the framing context of clas- sical literary values ...
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... prose of Gorgias . Norden's most dramatic finding is a contradiction : while many churchmen praise the low style , few practice it , cultivating rather the complex artistry of a high style . “ To put the matter briefly : in theory they ...
... prose of Gorgias . Norden's most dramatic finding is a contradiction : while many churchmen praise the low style , few practice it , cultivating rather the complex artistry of a high style . “ To put the matter briefly : in theory they ...
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... prose . Nevertheless , Curtius notes that “ there are several levels of prose . The highest form is that which , since Norden's day , has been called Kunstprosa ( ' artistic prose ' ) . Antiquity called it ' rhetoricus sermo ...
... prose . Nevertheless , Curtius notes that “ there are several levels of prose . The highest form is that which , since Norden's day , has been called Kunstprosa ( ' artistic prose ' ) . Antiquity called it ' rhetoricus sermo ...
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