scholarly journals By grammar alone?

2020 ◽  
pp. 239-258
Author(s):  
Jakub Koryl
Keyword(s):  
Desiderius Erasmus ◽  
Wilhelm Dilthey ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
De Doctrina Christiana ◽  
Matthias Flacius Illyricus ◽  
Fourth Book

Wilhelm Dilthey once admitted that Matthias Flacius Illyricus either appropriated the fourth book of Augustine’s De Doctrina Christiana in detail or took advantage of all of the early Christian exegesis in general in his Clavis Sacrae Scripturae. The aim of this paper is partly polemical. While Flacius himself frequently proved Dilthey’s unfavorable judgment to be correct, he also followed the innovatory footsteps of biblical philologists such as Gianozzo Manetti, Lorenzo Valla and Desiderius Erasmus in order to reaffirm and concretize the Lutheran principle of the intelligibility of Scripture based on its strictly immanent, that is to say grammatical, investigation. Consequently, I would like to discuss the Clavis Sacrae Scripturae as the confessional yet deliberate outcome of the grammatical and rhetorical curriculum of studia humanitatis. All of this, however, will not lead to the conclusion that the Clavis should still remain the enterprise of a less distinguished follower. For decisions made by Flacius regarding the tradition of patristic, medieval, and humanistic exegesis was constantly founded upon the heuristically critical and genuinely hermeneutical principle. Therefore, it is worth asking what this principle was, or more precisely, how can man use philological tools that do not deprive God of his unconditioned sovereignty

scholarly journals AVGVSTINVS HIPONENSIS, VIR CHRISTIANUS, DICENDI PERITUS: Análise das influências clássicas na proposta de formação oratória agostiniana

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Ivan Baycer Junior
Keyword(s):  
Title Page ◽  
Christian Formation ◽  
Augustine Of Hippo ◽  
De Doctrina Christiana ◽  
Fourth Book ◽  
The Ideal

<div class="page" title="Page 42"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>Neste trabalho expor-se-á uma análise das influências clássicas presentes na proposta de formação oratória agostiniana, a ser desenvolvida paralelamente ao estudo das concepções de retórica no seio do cristianismo. Buscando-se observar que a apresentação elaborada por Agostinho de Hipona à eloquência clássica reflete simultaneamente a repulsa por seu passado e as concepções herdadas pela formação cristã. Desta forma, perceber-se-á que o antigo retor propõe bases para uma eloquência não artificiosa, cujas bases espelham as concepções paulinas </span><span>– </span><span>profundamente influenciadas pelo platonismo </span><span>– </span><span>e a herança retórica latina, representada principalmente por Cícero. Proposta desenvolvida no decorrer do quarto livro do tratado <em>De doctrina christiana</em>, foco deste estudo, onde se vê Agostinho refletir e embasar o ideal de orador simples, de fala sábia e não artificiosa. </span></p><div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><strong>AVGVSTINVS HIPONENSIS, VIR CHRISTIANUS, DICENDI PERITUS: Analysis of classical influences in the proposal of Augustinian oratorical training</strong></p><p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p><span>This work will expose an analysis of classical influences present in the proposal of Augustinian oratorical training, being developed in parallel with the study of concepts of rhetoric within Christianity. Aiming to note that the presentation prepared by Augustine of Hippo to the classical eloquence simultaneously reflects the rejection to his past and the ideas inherited by the Christian formation. Thus, it will realize that the old rhetorician proposes bases for a non artificial eloquence, whose bases reflect the Pauline conceptions </span><span>– </span><span>strongly influenced by Platonism </span><span>– </span><span>and the Latin rhetorical heritage, represented mainly by Cicero. Proposal developed during the fourth book of the treatise De doctrina Christiana, the focus of this study, where we see Augustine to reflect and to base the ideal of simple orator, with wise speech and non artificial. </span></p><p><span><strong>Keywords:</strong> Christianity; Latin Patristics; Augustine of Hippo; Rhetoric. </span></p></div></div></div><p><span><br /></span></p></div></div></div>

Christian and Literary Rhetorics of the Early Middle Ages

2021 ◽  
pp. 58-103
Author(s):  
Rita Copeland
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Ethical Dimension ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
De Doctrina Christiana ◽  
Isidore Of Seville

Chapter 2 considers the fortunes of stylistic teaching about emotion in late antique and early Christian literary rhetoric: Augustine’s De doctrina christiana, Macrobius’ Saturnalia, and Cassiodorus’ psalm commentary. Here the teaching can explicitly articulate an ethical dimension of style, where the teacher/speaker calls attention to his investment in the emotional charge of the text. But when that ethical value is merely assumed, not overtly stated, as in many monastic and clerical rhetorics over the following centuries, the force of the ethical defense of rhetoric diminishes. The chapter traces this “naturalization” of the ethical defense in the rhetorics of Isidore of Seville, Bede, Rupert of Deutz, and the twelfth-century cathedral master Onulf of Speyer.

scholarly journals Mythological Motifs in the Apocrypha of the Second Temple Period and Revelation of St. John

2015 ◽  
pp. 118-125
Author(s):  
Katerina G. Kudryavtseva
Keyword(s):  
Second Temple ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Book Of Revelation ◽  
Second Temple Period ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Joseph And Aseneth ◽  
Fourth Book

Deals with interpretation of the early Christian texts and Jewish apocrypha which are a mystery still. The author addresses two themes, those of the shine and the opposition of light and dark powers in pursuit of the light which are of “folk” character (birth of a solar hero, capture of light, pursuit of the sun parallels). The research is based on the texts of the Second Temple period including apocryphal “Joseph and Aseneth,” the “Fourth Book of Ezda”, and the Book of Revelation in particular.

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