Preaching, Sermon and Cultural Change in the Long Eighteenth Century

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

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Book

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xvi, 416 pp.

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BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

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.

Readership

All those interested in religious history and church history, intellectual history, and the history of media and communication, as well as all eighteenth-century scholars.

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]

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