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Preachers and people in the Reformations and Early Modern period.
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ISBN: 0391042033 9780391042032 9789004476066 9004476067 1423734262 Year: 2003 Publisher: Boston Brill

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Sermons are an invaluable source for our knowledge of religious history and sociology, anthropology, and the mental landscape of men and women in pre-modern Europe, of what they were taught and what they practiced. But how did an individual process the preached message from the pulpit? How exactly do written sermons duplicate the preached Word? Do they at all? The 11 leading scholars who have contributed to this book do not offer uniform answers or an all-encompassing study of preaching in the Reformations and early modern period in Europe. They do, however, provide new insights on Catholic, Lutheran, and Reformed preaching in Western and Central Europe. Part One examines changes in sermon structure, style and content in Christian sermons from the thematic sermon typical of the Middle Ages to the wide variety of later preaching styles. Catholic preaching after Trent proves not to be monolithic and intolerant, but a hybrid of forms past and present, applied as needed to particular situations. Lutheran homiletic theory is traced from Luther and through Melanchthon, the intention of the sermon being to transform the worship service based on exegesis of Scripture. In Reformed worship, the expository sermon, often given on a daily basis with a continuing exegesis, was designed to communicate the tenets of the faith in terms that the laity could understand ("plain style"). Part Two deals with the social history of preaching in France, where preachers often incited their hearers to attack human beings or holy objects or were themselves attacked; in Italy, where preaching became a collective and "home-grown" product; in early modern Germany, where the authorities strove for uniformity of preaching practice and the preacher was seen as a moral guardian; in Switzerland, where leaders from Zwingli on sought to bring religious practice, conduct, and government in line with biblical teaching and propagated a pastoral vision of preaching; in England, where after the Reformation preachers became the indispensable agents of salvation, but clergy and congregations were often ill-prepared for the task; in Scandinavia, where post-Reformation sermons have a clear didactic aim, teaching obedience to the authorities; and in the Low Countries, characterized by its numerous denominations, all with their own churches and particular practices in terms of preaching. The volume ends with a consideration of the influence of late medieval preaching on the Reformation, concluding that the diversity of emphasis on how the practice of penance was preached (and received) very likely affected the appeal (or not) of the Lutheran/Reformed message in a given country.


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De la parole du prédicateur au discours politique : jalons pour une histoire de la critique religieuse du politique (du Moyen Âge à l'époque contemporaine)
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ISBN: 9782383770596 2383770590 9782383770602 9782383770619 Year: 2022 Publisher: Clermont-Ferrand Presses universitaires Blaise-Pascal

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Comment, du Moyen Âge à nos jours, des membres du clergé chrétien ou des savants religieux d'autres confessions ont-ils pu, à travers une prédication de performance, des sermons ordinaires, des diatribes contestataires ou l'usage d'une violence de connivence, porter une critique du pouvoir laïque? Les rapports entre religion et politique sont au cœur de nos débats contemporains. Leur étude a besoin du regard des historiens, qui peuvent offrir des clés de lecture sur la longue durée tout en évitant le danger de l'anachronisme. Ils interrogent le passé en étant certes attentifs aux permanences d'institutions séculaires, mais en veillant à contextualiser les phénomènes. De la parole prophétique médiévale à l'Afrique contemporaine en passant par les révolutions européennes, ce livre invite à une exploration de différents types de discours, suffisamment puissants pour qu'ils trouvent résonance et influence hors de leur univers de départ, jusqu'à faire parfois oublier d'où ils viennent.

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