David Appleby
Sermons and Preaching
Appleby, David
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John Coffey
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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 |
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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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