Preaching, Sermon and Cultural Change in the Long Eighteenth Century

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-04-17155-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 817 g

Reihe: A New History of the Sermon

The fourth volume in Brill’s series A New History of the Sermon, this study examines the sermon during the ‘long’ eighteenth century – the era between Bossuet and Schleiermacher. It offers a broad outline of the history of preaching in this period, an overview of the research over the past three decades, and suggestions for new approaches to the subject. Thematically, the book includes chapters on such topics as the theology of the eighteenth-century sermon, preachers' instructions, the sermon in daily life, delivery as a means of reaching congregations, and audience reception of preaching. It also pays ample attention to the three important religious and intellectual currents of the long eighteenth century: (Neo-)classicism, Pietism, and the Enlightenment.
Contributors are Alexander Bitzel, Françoise Deconinck-Brossard, O.C. Edwards, Joris van Eijnatten, Sabine Holtz, Pasi Ihalainen, Herman Roodenburg, Jonathan Strom, and Thomas Worcester

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eijnatten, Joris Van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Outline: Preacher, Sermon and Audience in the Long Eighteenth Century: From Bossuet to Schleiermacher (1680-1815)
general approach: interdenominational + transnational
Pt. I: Introduction
1 The eighteenth-century sermon as a medium of communication
[approach; general context: sermon as public 'infotainment', relations with sociability, press & other media]
Pt. II: Manifestations
2 Sources & Historiography
[manuschripts, collections, bibliographies, l8th-C historical surveys of pulpit oratory]
3 Sermons & Daily Life
[sermon as ritual; publics & audiences; effects, social control, relations with political figures (magistrates, nobles, princes)]
Pt. III: Aspirations
4 The Preacher
[self-image, charisma; Whitefield, Bossuet, Abraham a Sancta Clara, Tillotson; women preachers]
5 Prescriptive Literature
[homiletic guidelines; Rollin, Fénelon, Mosheim, Maury; reference works, Postillen, praedicabilia, indices concionatorii, emblematic lexicons, encyclopaedias, thesauruses, anthologies of metaphors, parables, antitheses, histories]
6 Theology of the Sermon
[Baroque, Pietist, Enlightened; methods (approach to bible, use of allegory &
typology); analytic & synthetic (thematic) sermons; roman catholicism, calvinism, lutheranism, pietism, wolffianism; fear & consolation]
Pt.IV Traditions
7 Confessional Genres
[Ständepredigt, puritan sermon, 'letter sermon', prayer-day sermon (jeremiad), festive sermons, Heiligenpredigt, funeral sermon, emblematic sermon, concetto sermon, gerundianismo, court sermon]
8 Oral Traditions
[story telling, use of fables, examples, folk tales, accounts of supematural beings
(witches, devils, angles), farces on social ranks and domestic relationships (generally an ethnological approach)]
9 The Sermon and non-European peoples [colonies, New World; missions]
Pt. V: Transformations
10 The 'Classical' Sermon
[French court sermon (Bourdaloue, Massillon, Bossuet); English neoclassical 'plain style' sermon (Tillotson)]
11 Pietism & Revivalism
[German, Scandinavian, Anglo-American (Methodism), Catholic (Jansenism); evangelical sermon; sentimental sermon]
12 Enlightenment, Revolution & Reform
[Neology (Spalding); political sermons & nature sermons]

Über Autor(innen)

Joris van Eijnatten, Ph.D. (1993) in History, is Professor of Cultural History at VU University Amsterdam. He has published extensively on topics in the intellectual and religious history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including works on Willem Bilderdijk, toleration, and media and communication.