Title:
The Oxford handbook of the British sermon, 1689-1901 / edited by Keith A. Francis and William Gibson.
Author:
Francis, Keith A., editor.
Gibson, William, 1959- editor.
Publication Information:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Call Number:
BV4208.G7 O846 2014
Abstract:
"The period 1689-1901 was 'the golden age' of the sermon in Britain. It was the best selling printed work and dominated the print trade until the mid-nineteenth century. Sermons were highly influential in religious and spiritual matters, but they also played important roles in elections and politics, science and ideas and campaigns for reform. Sermons touched the lives of ordinary people and formed a dominant part of their lives. Preachers attracted huge crowds and the popular demand for sermons was never higher. Sermons were also taken by missionaries and clergy across the British empire, so that preaching was integral to the process of imperialism and shaped the emerging colonies and dominions. The form that sermons took varied widely, and this enabled preaching to be adopted and shaped by every denomination, so that in this period most religious groups could lay claim to a sermon style. The pulpit naturally lent itself to controversy, and consequently sermons lay at the heart of numerous religious arguments. Drawing on the latest research by leading sermon scholars, this handbook accesses historical, theological, rhetorical, literary and linguistic studies to demonstrate the interdisciplinary strength of the field of sermon studies and to show the centrality of sermons to religious life in this period"-- Publisher.
ISBN:
9780198709770
Series:
Oxford handbooks in religion and theology
Oxford handbooks in religion and theology.
Physical Description:
xv, 662 pages ; 25 cm.
General Note:
"First published 2012. First published in paperback 2014 "--Title page verso.
Series taken from the Oxford University Press web site.
Contents:
The British sermon 1689-1901 : quantities, performance and culture / Sermons : themes and developments / Parish preaching in the long eighteenth century / Parish preachingin the Victorian era : the village sermon / Preaching from the platform / The British Quaker sermon, 1689-1901 / The sermons of the eighteenth-century Evangelicals / Sermons in British Catholicism to the restoration of the hierarchy / Preaching in the churches of Scotland / The sermon and political controversy in Ireland, 1800-1850 / Sermons in Wales in the established church / Preaching in the vernacular : the Welsh sermon, 1689-1901 / Order and uniformity, decorum, and taste : sermons preaches at the anniversary meeting of the three choirs, 1720-1800 / The sermon, court and Parliament, 1689-1789 / The defence of Georgian Britain : the anti-Jacobite sermon, 1715-1746 / Preaching, national salvation, victories, and thanksgivings : 1689-1800 / Sermons in the age of the American and French revolutions / 'This itching ear'd age' : visitation sermons and charges in the eighteenth century / Consecration sermons / The Protestant funeral sermon in England, 1688-1800 / The Victorian funeral sermon / Hard Labour : institutional benevolence and the development of national education / Sermons for end times : Evangelicalism, romanticism, and apocalypse in Britain / Rationalism, the enlightenment, and sermons / Preaching the Oxford movement / Sermons and the Catholic restoration / Paley to Darwin : natural theology versus science in Victorian sermons / Preaching the broad church gospel : the natal sermons of Bishop John William Colenso / From Barbarism to civility, from darkness to light : preaching empire as sacred history / Eighteenth-century mission sermons / The sermon in the British colonies / Church of Ireland missions to Roman Catholics, c.1700-1800 / 'Go ye therefore and teach all nations.' Evangelical and mission sermons : the Imperial period / The poet-preachers / Tradition, preaching, and the Gothic revival / The sermon and the Victorian novel / Sermon studies : major issues and future directions
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