A new history of the sermon : the nineteenth century / edited by Robert Ellison.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ellison, Robert H., 1967-

Series:

New history of the sermon ; v. 5.

A new history of the sermon ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Preaching--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Preaching.

Preaching--United States--History--19th century.

Sermons, English--19th century--History and criticism.

Sermons, English.

Sermons, American--19th century--History and criticism.

Sermons, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (585 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The latest installment in Brill’s A New History of the Sermon series offers innovative studies of sacred rhetoric in the nineteenth century. The three sections—Theory and Theology, Sermon and Society in the British Empire, and Sermon and Society in America—contain a total of sixteen essays on such topics as biblical criticism, Charles Darwin, the Oxford Movement, the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), English Catholicism, sermon-novels, and the slave trade on both sides of the Atlantic. Multiple traditions are represented, including the Anglican and Presbyterian churches, English nonconformity, Judaism, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, making this a compilation that will appeal to a wide range of preachers, historians, literary scholars, and students of the rhetorical tradition. Contributors are Miriam Elizabeth Burstein, Thomas J. Carmody, Dawn Coleman, Robert H. Ellison, Joseph Evans, Keith A. Francis, Brian Jackson, Dorothy Lander, Thomas H. Olbricht, Carol Poster, Mirela Saim, Jessica Sheetz-Nguyen, Bob Tennant, David M. Timmerman, Tamara S. Wagner, and John Wolffe.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / R. Ellison

Introduction / Robert H. Ellison

The Tractarians’ Sermons And Other Speeches / Robert H. Ellison

Richard Whately And The Didactic Sermon / Carol Poster

The Rhetoric Of Henry Ward Beecher And Frederic W. Farrar Regarding Biblical Criticism / Thomas H. Olbricht

Missions, Slavery, And The Anglican Pulpit, 1780–1850 / Bob Tennant

British Sermons On National Events / John Wolffe

Catholic Preaching In Victorian England, 1801–1901 / Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen

Anti-Catholic Sermons In Victorian Britain / Miriam Elizabeth Burstein

Nineteenth-Century British Sermons On Evolution And The Origin Of Species: The Dog That Didn’T Bark? / Keith A. Francis

The Victorian Sermon Novel: Domesticated Spirituality And The Sermon’s Sensationalization / Tamara S. Wagner

The Anti-Dueling Movement / Thomas J. Carmody

The Itinerant Pulpit Of The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (Wctu): Teachers Or Preachers? / Dorothy Lander

Midway Between Slavery And Citizenship: Black Freedmen In White Protestant Sermons In The Immediate Post-Civil War Period / David M. Timmerman

Sacred Rhetoric And The African-American Civic Sermon / Joseph Evans

The Modern Renewal Of Jewish Homiletics And The Occurrence Of Interfaith Preaching / Mirela Saim

“As A Musician Would His Violin”: The Oratory Of The Great Basin Prophets / Brian Jackson

The Antebellum American Sermon As Lived Religion / Dawn Coleman

Bibliography / R. Ellison

Index / R. Ellison.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [555]-565) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-78706-3

9786612787065

90-04-18946-7

OCLC:

667274199

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004185722.i-571 DOI