Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction 3
6. Christian Literary Culture and the Study of Simplicity 9
7. The Plain Style in Classical Rhetoric 33
8. Scripture and the Creative Motive 67
9. Channels of Transmission: Augustine and Paul 110
10. The Church Fathers and Christian Style 144
11. Medieval Rhetoric and the Art of Simplicity 174
12. Regenerate Art: The Major Reformers 203
13. Renaissance Plainness: Sources, Contexts, and Uses 232
14. Spiritual Rhetoric and the English Reformation 266
15. Epilogue: Decline and Transformation 304
16. Notes 311
17. Bibliography 337
18. Index 365