Christian Plain Style: The Evolution of a Spiritual IdealLocating 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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Contents
Christian Literary Culture and the Study | 9 |
The Plain Style in Classical Rhetoric | 33 |
Scripture and the Creative Motive | 67 |
Augustine | 110 |
The Church Fathers and Christian Style | 144 |
Medieval Rhetoric and the Art | 174 |
The Major | 203 |
Sources Contexts | 232 |
Spiritual Rhetoric and the English | 266 |
Decline | 304 |
Notes | 311 |
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adornment 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 decorative 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