Research Catalog

Title

The Oxford handbook of the British sermon, 1689-1901 / edited by Keith A. Francis and William Gibson ; consultant editors Robert Ellison, John Morgan-Guy, & Bob Tennant.

Publication

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Francis, Keith A.
• Gibson, William, 1959-

Description

xv, 662 p.; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Oxford handbooks

Uniform Title

Oxford handbooks.

Alternative Title

• Handbook of the British sermon, 1689-1901
• British sermon, 1689-1901

Subjects

• Sermons > Great Britain > History
• Preaching > Great Britain > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part I. Introductory essays -- ch. 1. The British sermon 1689-1901 : quantities, performance and culture / William Gibson -- ch. 2. Sermons : themes and developments / Keith A. Francis -- Part II. Communities, cultures and communication -- ch. 3. Parish preaching in the long eighteenth century / Jeffrey S. Chamberlain -- ch. 4. Parish preaching in the Victorian era : the village sermon / Frances Knight -- ch. 5. Preaching from the platform / Martin Hewitt -- ch. 6. The British Quaker sermon, 1689-1901 / Michael Graves -- ch. 7. The sermons of the eighteenth-century Evangelicals / Bob Tennant -- ch. 8. Sermons in British Catholicism to the restoration of the hierarchy / Geoffry Scott -- ch. 9. Preaching in the churches of Scotland / Ann Matheson -- ch. 10. The sermon and political controversy in Ireland, 1800-1850 / Irene Whelan -- ch. 11. Sermons in Wales in the established church / John Morgan-Guy -- ch. 12. Preaching in the vernacular : the Welsh sermon, 1689-1901 / D. Densil Morgan -- ch. 13. Order and uniformity, decorum, and taste : sermons preaches at the anniversary meeting of the three choirs, 1720-1800 / Andrew Pink -- Part III. Occasional sermons -- ch. 14. The sermon, court and Parliament, 1689-1789 / Pasi Ihalainen -- ch. 15. The defence of Georgian Britain : the anti-Jacobite sermon, 1715-1746 / James J. Caudle -- ch. 16. Preaching, national salvation, victories, and thanksgivings : 1689-1800 / Warren Johnston -- ch. 17. Sermons in the age of the American and French revolutions / G. M. Ditchfield -- ch. 18. 'This itching ear'd age' : visitation sermons and charges in the eighteenth century / William Gibson -- ch. 19. consecration sermons / Colin Haydon -- ch. 20. The Protestant funeral sermon in England, 1688-1800 / Penny Pritchard -- ch. 21. The Victorian funeral sermon / John Wolffe -- Part IV. Controversies, and the development of ideas -- ch. 22. hard Labour : institutional benevolence and the development of national education / bob Tennant -- ch. 23. Sermons for end times : Evangelicalism, romanticism, and apocalypse in Britain / Keith A. Francis and Robert J. Surridge -- ch. 24. Rationalism, the enlightenment, and sermons / Nigel Aston -- ch. 25. Preaching the Oxford movement / Jeremy Morris -- ch. 26. Sermons and the Catholic restoration / Melissa Wilkinson -- ch. 27. Paley to Darwin : natural theology versus science in Victorian sermons / Keith A. Francis -- ch. 28. Preaching the broad church gospel : the natal sermons of Bishop John William Colenso / Gerald Parsons -- Part V Missions and ideas of empire -- ch. 29. From Barbarism to civility, from darkness to light : preaching empire as sacred history / Robert G. Ingram -- ch. 30. Eighteenth-century mission sermons / Rowan Strong -- ch. 31. The sermon in the British colonies / Joanna Cruickshank -- ch. 32. Church of Ireland missions to Roman Catholics, c.1700-1800 / Andrew Sneddon -- ch. 33. 'Go ye therefore and teach all nations.' Evangelical and mission sermons : the Imperial period / Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen -- Part VI Sermons and literature -- ch. 34. the poet-preachers / Kirstie Blair -- ch. 35. Tradition, preaching, and the Gothic revival / Stephen Prickett -- ch. 36. The sermon and the Victorian novel / Linda Gill -- Part VII Conclusion -- ch. 37. Sermon studies : major issues and future directions / Keith A. Francis.

Call Number

JFF 13-886

ISBN

• 9780199583591 (hbk.)
• 0199583595 (hbk.)

OCLC

797975132

Title

The Oxford handbook of the British sermon, 1689-1901 / edited by Keith A. Francis and William Gibson ; consultant editors Robert Ellison, John Morgan-Guy, & Bob Tennant.

Imprint

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Edition

1st ed.

Series

Oxford handbooks

Oxford handbooks.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Francis, Keith A.

Gibson, William, 1959-

Research Call Number

JFF 13-886