Overview

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.

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Author:   Robert Ellison
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   5
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   1.157kg
ISBN:  

9789004185722

ISBN 10:   9004185720
Pages:   574
Publication Date:   12 July 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

CONTENTS Permissions List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction Robert H. Ellison PART ONE THEORY AND THEOLOGY 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 Tomas H. Olbricht PART TWO SERMON AND SOCIETY IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE 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 PART THREE SERMON AND SOCIETY IN AMERICA 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 Index

Reviews

...For readers who are seeking a collection of serious, substantial studies across a wide array of topics that are essential to any learned approach to understanding the importance of preaching in the English-speaking world of the nineteenth century, this text may be indispensable... William B. Lawrence, Church History, vol. 82, issue 02, June 2013, pp. 472-474 ...We can hope that the Victorian sermon will be taken up with increasing interest by both literary scholars and historians. A New History of the Sermon is a vital, exciting, and rigorous contribution to this emerging field of study. Timothy Larsen, Victorian Studies, vol. 54, no. 1, Autumn 2011 ...While Ellison's interest in rhetoric may seem to make this collection of greatest interest to literary scholars, any historian of nineteenth-century Anglo-American religion should be able to find something useful here. Bethany Kilcrease, Anglican and Episcopal History, December 1, 2011 ...This new volume...is a work of considerable significance for Victorianists, for while the Victorian practice of religion has long been considered a major element of nineteenth-century culture, it has not drawn fitting attention in this more secular age... Margaret Markwick, Review 19, 2011-08-15 (http://test.nbol-19.org/view_doc.php?index=181)

Author Information

Robert H. Ellison, Ph.D. (1995) in English, University of North Texas, is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Marshall University. He has published on the Oxford Movement and is working on a study of the Victorian “lay sermon.”

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