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God's Name, In : Examples of Preaching in England 1534 - 1662

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Overview: 'Things are preached not in that they are taught, but in that they are published.' There could be no better epigraph than this observation of Richard Hooker for the wide-ranging anthology within which the editor has brought together the finest flowering of the preacher's art - the art practised over rather more than a hundred years, from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, between the Act of Supremacy and the Act of Uniformity. Hooker, says the author, 'put a divining finger on the nature of the process which was to grow into the first strategic exercise in popular communications in the history of England'. Long and profound research has enable the author to document all the tactical moves in this war of words. The famous names are naturally represented generously - Latimer, Lancelot Andrewes, John Donne, William Laud, Jeremy Taylor - but by searching among contemporary sources the author has been able to provide an astonishing array of sermons by individuals known, if at all, only to the specialist: sermons many of which have never been reprinted since their earliest issue, and all of which are characterised by an outstanding use of the resources of the English language and a vivifying energy which is often, to say the least, ferocious. In this war of words the battlefield was sometimes political, sometimes religious, sometime social. Never in English history has the sermon been used to militantly as a weapon, and no period has produced a body of sermons so eminently deserving a permanent place on the shelves not only of scholars but all who enjoy English prose at its most , its most sinewy, its most direct, its most eloquent and impassioned.

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R 252.08 C361g

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London, United Kingdom : Hutchinson., 1971

Deskripsi Fisik

586

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English

ISBN/ISSN

0 09 105930 5

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252.08

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