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Preaching the inward light : early Quaker rhetoric / Michael P. Graves.
Van Pelt Library BX7748.P75 G73 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Graves, Michael P., 1943-
- Series:
- Studies in rhetoric and religion ; 9.
- Studies in rhetoric and religion ; 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Quaker preaching--History--17th century.
- Quaker preaching.
- Extemporaneous preaching--History--17th century.
- Extemporaneous preaching.
- Society of Friends--Sermons--History and criticism.
- Society of Friends.
- Sermons, English--History and criticism.
- Sermons, English.
- Sermons.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 462 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Cultural constraints on early Quaker preaching
- Presuppositions of early Quaker preaching
- The development of seventeenth-century Quaker impromptu preaching theory
- Robert Barclay and the grounding of early Quaker homiletic theory
- The flowering of early Quaker homiletic theory : Samuel Bownas' manual for itinerant impromptu preachers
- Thematic characteristics of Quaker sermons, 1671-1700
- Five key metaphors in early Quaker sermons, 1671-1700
- Other salient characteristics of Quaker sermons, 1671-1700
- George Fox faces the Yearly Meeting in 1674 : the challenge of legitimacy in a culture that values impromptu, inspired discourse
- Stephen Crisp and the bedrock of early Quakerism
- "This is my testimony unto you from the life of God" : the theorist tests his own advice
- William Penn preaches an impromptu funeral sermon.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9781602582408
- 1602582408
- OCLC:
- 318878825
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