Pauline style and Renaissance literary culture /
"As major sources of discourse and debate on theological topics such as the resurrection of body and soul, justification by faith, and predestination, the New Testament epistles of Saint Paul played a central role in the development of religious thought and practice across Reformation Europe. B...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "As major sources of discourse and debate on theological topics such as the resurrection of body and soul, justification by faith, and predestination, the New Testament epistles of Saint Paul played a central role in the development of religious thought and practice across Reformation Europe. But in a period when Christian belief and biblical knowledge permeated every aspect of human life, how did Paul's epistles inform Europe's literary and rhetorical cultures? Pauline Style and Renaissance Literary Culture is the first critical history of Saint Paul's rhetorical style in the Renaissance, 1500–1700. It explores critical and creative responses to Paul's style across a range of mediums and genres at a time when two powerful and confluent cultural forces—humanism and Protestantism—profoundly altered conceptions of biblical writing. The book argues that Paul's style developed into one of the most theoretically productive and artistically provocative of the Renaissance, primarily because of its controversial reception among European biblical humanists, who struggled to consistently define and favorably assess its volatile features, qualities, and expressive functions. This theoretical discourse directly impacted literary activity in England, shaping how and why authors such as Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton imitated Paul's style in their texts. By thus tracing the reception of Paul's style in Renaissance literary culture, the book reveals how and why English writers drew on biblical models to develop their literary practices, while also revealing how issues of style and rhetoric shaped biblical interpretation and theological discourse in the contentious religious culture of Reformation Europe"--Publisher's description. |
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| Item Description: | Also issued in print: 2023. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191990373 019199037X 0198879881 9780198879886 9780198879879 0198879873 |