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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... sense is still current . The artistic sense of simplicity is my main concern . Here the oppo- site of simple is the ornate , the fancy , the elaborate , and the compli- cated . A simple artifact is not ostentatious ; hence , it may ...
... sense is still current . The artistic sense of simplicity is my main concern . Here the oppo- site of simple is the ornate , the fancy , the elaborate , and the compli- cated . A simple artifact is not ostentatious ; hence , it may ...
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... senses , admits simplicity principally as a contrast to innate complexity or as a ubiqui- tous , almost ineffable ... sense of the adverb " simply " had implied a straightforwardness in speaking , " with no at- tempt at style " ( OED ) ...
... senses , admits simplicity principally as a contrast to innate complexity or as a ubiqui- tous , almost ineffable ... sense of the adverb " simply " had implied a straightforwardness in speaking , " with no at- tempt at style " ( OED ) ...
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... sense and sensation . To avoid the ambiguities of simplicity , historians of religious culture have turned increasingly to the words " plain " and " plainness " as syno- nyms or replacements , calling the Mennonites and Amish , for exam ...
... sense and sensation . To avoid the ambiguities of simplicity , historians of religious culture have turned increasingly to the words " plain " and " plainness " as syno- nyms or replacements , calling the Mennonites and Amish , for exam ...
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... senses of the word “ plain " are often synonymous with " simple . " Plainness in the material objects of any culture ... sense of ex- crescences removed , excesses trimmed , needless complexity rendered accessible , artifice reduced ...
... senses of the word “ plain " are often synonymous with " simple . " Plainness in the material objects of any culture ... sense of ex- crescences removed , excesses trimmed , needless complexity rendered accessible , artifice reduced ...
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... senses , to which art and rhetoric appeal . In this secondary tradition , Christians are required to praise the ... sense and matter . Apologists for the more central tradition of aesthetic magnificence in the Church have had their ...
... senses , to which art and rhetoric appeal . In this secondary tradition , Christians are required to praise the ... sense and matter . Apologists for the more central tradition of aesthetic magnificence in the Church have had their ...
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