Christian Plain Style : The Evolution of a Spiritual Ideal.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Christian Literary Culture and the Study of Simplicity -- 2 The Plain Style in Classical Rhetoric -- 3 Scripture and the Creative Motive -- 4 Channels of Transmission: Augustine and Paul -- 5 The Church Fathers and Christian Style -- 6 Medieval Rhetoric and the Art of Simplicity -- 7 Regenerate Art: The Major Reformers -- 8 Renaissance Plainness: Sources, Contexts, and Uses -- 9 Spiritual Rhetoric and the English Reformation -- Epilogue: Decline and Transformation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.

Christian Plain Style is a historical survey of the origins, growth, and decline of "the plain style," a mode of rhetorical discourse that reflected the mode of expression exemplified by Christ. Peter Auksi draws on an impressive array of classical, biblical, patristic, medieval, and Renaissance primary sources to explain this complex ideal of spiritualized rhetoric.

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