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The Oxford Handbook of the British Sermon 1689-1901
Edited by Keith A. Francis and William Gibson
Robert Ellison, John Morgan-Guy, and Bob Tennant
688 pages
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246x171mm
978-0-19-958359-1
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Hardback
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04 October 2012
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- Provides a fresh assessment of the importance of the sermon in the period 1689-1901 drawing out the key significance of the sermon for different aspects of public and private life in Britain
- 36 new essays provide comprehensive coverage of the major themes in sermon studies
- The international contributor team includes scholars from the fields of history, theology, literature, and linguistics
- Includes discussion of the future direction of sermon studies and provides suggested reading lists to direct further research
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.Readership: Students and scholars of British history; of religious worship; of religion and politics; of religion and literature
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Edited by Keith A. Francis, Adjunct professor at the University of Maryland University College, Visiting Research Fellow, Oxford Brookes University and Executive Secretary, American Society of Church History, and William Gibson, Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Director of the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, Oxford Brookes University Robert Ellison, Visiting Professor of Literature, Marshall University, West Virginia, USA, John Morgan-Guy, Formerly lecturer in Church History at University of Wales: Trinity Saint David, UK, and Bob Tennant, Honorary research fellow in English at the University of Glasgow,
UKKeith Francis is a historian of religion in Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and is particularly interested in the development of the biological sciences and their impact on nineteenth-century Christianity. He is the Executive Secretary of the American Society of Church History and a visiting research fellow at Oxford Brookes University.
William Gibson is a historian of religion in Britain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, he has written widely on the Church of England in this period and is particularly interested in its role in politics and the emergence of an enlightenment culture. He is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford Brookes University and Director of the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History. He is co-editor of Wesley and Methodist Studies and reviews editor of Archives (the journal of the British Records Association). In 2011 he was visiting research fellow at Yale University. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Association and of the Royal Society of Arts.
Contributors:
Nigel Aston is Reader in History at the University of Leicester, UK.
Kirstie Blair is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Glasgow, UK.
James J. Caudle is Associate Editor of the Boswell Papers at Yale University, USA.
Jeffrey Chamberlain is Director of the Frederik Meijer Honors College at Grand Valley State University, Michigan, USA.
Joanna Cruickshank is Lecturer in History at Deakin University, Australia.
Grayson Ditchfield is Professor of Eighteenth Century History at the University of Kent, UK.
Robert Ellison is Visiting Professor of Literature, Marshall University, West
Virginia, USA.
Keith A. Francis is Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford Brookes University, UK and Executive Secretary of the American Society for Church History.
William Gibson is Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Director of the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History at Oxford Brookes University, UK.
Linda Gill is Professor of English at Pacific Union College, California, USA.
Michael Graves is Professor of Communication Studies at Liberty University, Virginia, USA.
Colin Haydon is Reader in History at the University of Winchester, UK.
Martin Hewitt is Professor and Head of the Dept of History and Economic History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
Pasi Ihalainen is Professor of
History at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Robert G. Ingram is Associate Professor of History at Ohio University, USA.
Warren Johnston is Assistant Professor of History at Algoma University, Canada.
Frances A. Knight is Associate Professor of Theology at the University of Nottingham, UK.
Ann Matheson was Assistant Keeper at the National Library of Scotland and is currently Secretary of the General Council at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
D. Densil Morgan is Professor of Theology and Provost of Lampeter at University of Wales: Trinity Saint David, UK.
John Morgan-Guy was lecturer in Church History at University of Wales : Trinity Saint David, UK.
Jeremy Morris is Dean, Fellow, and Director of Studies
in Theology at King>'s College, Cambridge, UK.
Gerald Parsons is Senior Lecturer in the Dept of Religious Studies at the Open University, UK.
Andrew Pink is an independent scholar, UK.
Stephen Prickett is Regius Professor Emeritus of English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow and honorary professor at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
Penny Pritchard is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Hertfordshire, UK.
Geoffrey Scott, OSB, is Abbot of Douai, UK.
Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen is Director of the History Education Program at the University of Central Oklahoma, USA.
Andrew Sneddon is Lecturer in International History at the University of Ulster, UK.
Rowan
Strong is Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Murdoch University, Australia.
Bob Tennant is honorary research fellow in English at the University of Glasgow, UK.
Irene Whelan is Professor of History and Director of Irish Studies at Manhattenville College, New York, USA.
Melissa Wilkinson is an independent scholar and author of Frederick William Faber (Gracewing Press 2007), UK.
John Wolffe is Professor of Religious History at the Open University, UK.
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"an outstanding work of accessible scholarship, richly annotated and elegantly printed." - Michael Wheeler, Church Times
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I: Introductory Essays
1: William Gibson: The British Sermon 1689-1901: Quantities, Performance, and Culture
2: Keith A. Francis: Sermons: Themes and Developments
II: Sermons: Communities, Cultures and Communication
3: Jeffrey S. Chamberlain: Parish Preaching in the Long Eighteenth Century
4: Frances Knight: Parish Preaching in the Victorian Era: The Village Sermon
5: Martin Hewitt: Preaching from the platform
6: Michael Graves: The British Quaker Sermon, 1689-1901
7: Bob Tennant: The Sermons of the Eighteenth-Century Evangelicals
8: Geoffrey Scott: Sermons in British Catholicism to the Restoration of the Hierarchy
9: Ann Matheson: Preaching in the Churches of Scotland
10: Irene Whelan: The Sermon and Political Controversy in Ireland, 1800-1850
11: John Morgan-Guy: Sermons in Wales in the Established Church
12: D. Densil Morgan: Preaching in the Vernacular: the Welsh sermon, 1689-1901
13: Andrew Pink: Order and Uniformity, Decorum, and Taste: Sermons Preached at the Anniversary Meeting of the Three Choirs, 1720-1800
III: Occasional Sermons
14: Pasi Ihalainen: The Sermon, Court and Parliament 1689-1789
15: James J. Caudle: The Defence of Georgian Britain, the Anti-Jacobite Sermon 1715-1746
16: Warren Johnston: Preaching, National Salvation, Victories and Thanksgiving, 1689-1800
17: Grayson Ditchfield: Sermons in the Age of the American and French Revolutions
18: William Gibson: This Itching Ear d Age : Visitation Sermons and Charges in the Eighteenth Century
19: Colin Haydon: Consecration Sermons
20: Penny Pritchard: The Protestant Funeral Sermon in England, 1688-1800
21: John Wolffe: The Victorian Funeral Sermon
IV: Sermons, Controversies and the Development of Ideas
22: Bob Tennant: Hard Labour: Institutional Benevolence and the Development of National Education
23: Robert J. Surridge and Keith A. Francis: Sermons for End Times: Evangelicalism, Romanticism, and Apocalypse in Britain
24: Nigel Aston: Rationalism, the Enlightenment, and Sermons
25: Jeremy Morris: Preaching the Oxford Movement
26: Melissa Wilkinson: Sermons and the Catholic Restoration
27: Keith A. Francis: Paley to Darwin: Natural Theology versus Science in Victorian Sermons
28: Gerald Parsons: Preaching the Broad Church Gospel: The Natal Sermons of Bishop John William Colenso
V Sermons: Missions and Ideas of Empire
29: Robert G. Ingram: From Barbarism to Civility, from Darkness to Light : Preaching Empire as Sacred History
30: Rowan Strong: Eighteenth-Century Mission Sermons
31: Joanna Cruickshank: The Sermon in the British Colonies
32: Andrew Sneddon: Church of Ireland Missions to Roman Catholics c.1700-1800
33: Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen: Go ye therefore and teach all nations : Evangelical and Mission Sermons, the Imperial Stage
VI: Sermons and Literature
34: Kirstie Blair: The Poet-Preachers
35: Stephen Prickett: Tradition Preaching and the Gothic Revival
36: Linda Gill VII: Conclusion: The Sermon and the Victorian Novel
37: Keith A. Francis: Sermon Studies: Major Issues and Future Directions
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