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Sermons and Preaching

Appleby, David

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Authors

David Appleby



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John Coffey
Editor

Abstract

Preaching has always been central to the dissenting Protestant tradition. The fact that sermons were a crucial means of mass communication ensured that ‘hotter Protestants’ would be locked in a perpetual struggle with the ecclesiastical and political authorities for possession of parish pulpits and town lectureships. This chapter explores the means by which dissenting preachers were trained and deployed, and how they managed to deliver their message to a wider audience in the face of often intense official harassment and censorship. Calvinist preaching was always intended to inspire congregations to act as well as listen; a fact which explains both the anxieties of the political authorities regarding public discussion of theological and political matters, and the alarm (even among Puritan clergy) at the growth of unregulated lay preaching. This chapter therefore not only surveys how nonconformist preaching developed during this period, but also how it helped fragment the dissenting movement.

Citation

Appleby, D. (2020). Sermons and Preaching. In J. Coffey (Ed.), The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions: Volume I: The Post-Reformation Era, 1559-1689. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198702238.001.0001

Book Type Edited Book
Acceptance Date Nov 1, 2017
Online Publication Date May 21, 2020
Publication Date May 29, 2020
Deposit Date Jul 24, 2018
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Volume 1
Book Title The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions: Volume I: The Post-Reformation Era, 1559-1689
Chapter Number 19
ISBN 9780198702238; 9780191840135
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198702238.001.0001
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1113775
Publisher URL https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780198702238.001.0001/oso-9780198702238-chapter-20
Related Public URLs https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-history-of-protestant-dissenting-traditions-volume-i-9780198702238?lang=en&cc=gb

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