---
title: 'The Fundamental Properties of Style'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'William Greenough Thayer Shedd'
date: 1864-10-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Ancient and Medieval Church History'
- 'Preaching'
scriptures:
- 'Acts 2'
- 'Ephesians 4'
- 'Matthew 28'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/shedd-1864-the-fundamental-properties-of-style
---

# The Fundamental Properties of Style

Two essays: one examines Ebionitism and the emergence of the second-century Catholic church; the other outlines three fundamental properties of style—plainness, force, beauty—for pulpit rhetoric.

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