03543nam 2200673Ia 450 991078263320332120230912125627.01-282-85707-X97866128570720-7735-6489-610.1515/9780773564893(CKB)1000000000713978(SSID)ssj0000277867(PQKBManifestationID)11210598(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000277867(PQKBWorkID)10242239(PQKB)11210310(CaPaEBR)400742(CaBNvSL)slc00200810(Au-PeEL)EBL3331191(CaPaEBR)ebr10141864(CaONFJC)MIL285707(OCoLC)929121512(DE-B1597)654775(DE-B1597)9780773564893(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/q5vzdk(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400742(MiAaPQ)EBC3331191(MiAaPQ)EBC3245396(EXLCZ)99100000000071397819940503d1995 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierChristian plain style the evolution of a spiritual ideal /Peter AuksiMontreal ;Buffalo :McGill-Queen's University Press,1995.1 online resource (xii, 371 pages)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7735-1220-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-363) and index.Front Matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Abbreviations --Introduction --Christian Literary Culture and the Study of Simplicity --The Plain Style in Classical Rhetoric --Scripture and the Creative Motive --Channels of Transmission: Augustine and Paul --The Church Fathers and Christian Style --Medieval Rhetoric and the Art of Simplicity --Regenerate Art: The Major Reformers --Renaissance Plainness: Sources, Contexts, and Uses --Spiritual Rhetoric and the English Reformation --Epilogue: Decline and Transformation --Notes --Bibliography --IndexLocating 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.Language and languagesReligious aspectsChristianityRhetoricReligious aspectsChristianityRhetoricHistoryLanguage and languagesReligious aspectsChristianity.RhetoricReligious aspectsChristianity.RhetoricHistory.230/.014Auksi Peter1942-1499930MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782633203321Christian plain style3726373UNINA