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Scholarship on the German Reformation has long equated preaching with Protestantism, just as many scholars have employed sermons but usually in supplemental and unsystematic ways. Based on an analysis of over 400 standard sermon collections (postils) produced by Catholics, Lutherans, and Calvinists (1520-1620), this study offers the first comprehensive, systematic presentation of these works from a cross-confessional perspective. It lays to rest the notion that preaching was somehow distinctively Protestant while tracing the creation, production, use, and censorship of postils. These sermon collections were nothing less than the applied distillation of Christianity delivered on a regular basis by the clergy to the laity, and as such the most important vehicle for the dissemination of ideas in early modern Germany.

Christian church history --- History of Germany and Austria --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Sermons --- Reformation --- History and criticism. --- Catholic Church --- Germany --- Church history --- 251 <43> --- 251 "15" --- 27 <43> "15/16" --- 239.9*1 --- 239.9*2 --- Christian sermons --- Homilies --- Sermonettes --- Christian literature --- Homiletiek. Verkondiging. Prediking--Duitsland voor 1945 en na 1989 --- Homiletiek. Verkondiging. Prediking--?"15" --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Duitsland voor 1945 en na 1989--?"15/16" --- Katholieke polemieken met protestanten --- Protestantse polemieken met katholieken --- Church of Rome --- Roman Catholic Church --- Katholische Kirche --- Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Römische Kirche --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Eglise catholique --- Eglise catholique-romaine --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Chiesa cattolica --- Iglesia Católica --- Kościół Katolicki --- Katolicki Kościół --- Kościół Rzymskokatolicki --- Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Gereja Katolik --- Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit --- Kanisa Katoliki --- כנסיה הקתולית --- כנסייה הקתולית --- 가톨릭교 --- 천주교 --- 239.9*2 Protestantse polemieken met katholieken --- 239.9*1 Katholieke polemieken met protestanten --- History and criticism --- Sermons - Germany - History and criticism. --- Reformation - Germany. --- Germany - Church history - 16th century.