Browsing by Author "Saak, Eric Leland"

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    Augustine and the Trinity vision in the Vita Sancti Augustini Imaginibus Adornata
    (2013) Slaymaker, Peter James Victor; Saak, Eric Leland; Whitchurch, Gail Gráinne; Lee, Jennifer
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    In the Wake of Lombard: The Reception of Augustine in the Early Thirteenth Century
    (2015) Saak, Eric Leland; Department of History
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    A Study of the Rhetoric of the Early Sermons of St. Augustine
    (2012) Wall, John K.; Saak, Eric Leland; Lindseth, Erik L.; Davis, Thomas J. (Thomas Jeffery), 1958-
    This examination of the first five years of his preaching identifies key ways in which Augustine of Hippo transformed classical rhetoric into the pattern he would later outline in De doctrina christiana. This thesis argues that Augustine began his career as a priest giving sermons in line with the sophistic speeches he had taught before his conversion, but that by 396 he had "redeemed" his rhetoric to fit the new purposes of the Christian church. During these early years, Augustine reduced or removed the classical exordia and perorations in order to meld his sermons into the liturgy. He also humbled, but did not eliminate, his rhetorical polish as he shifted the main purpose of rhetoric from pleasing the elites to teaching the masses.
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    The wisdom of not knowing: the role of humility in Luther's early theological development
    (2015-03) Stark, Matthew Aaron; Saak, Eric Leland; Kostroun, Daniella J., 1970-; Davis, Thomas J.
    This is a thesis centering around the importance of humility in Martin Luther's Lectures on Romans, written in 1515-1516. Included are a word study of humility and its derivatives in Luther's original Latin text, an exposition of each usage, and a thematic exegesis of Luther's theology of humility in his Lectures on Romans.