Author: Robert H. Ellison
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
ISBN: 9781575910147
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Victorian Pulpit is the first book to employ the methods of orality-literacy scholarship in the study of the nineteenth-century British sermon. The first chapters present three ways in which Victorian preaching was a conflation of oral and written practice. The second part is an analysis of the rhetoric of three prominent ministers. The book concludes by suggesting other ways of bringing orality-literacy studies and Victorian scholarship together.
The Victorian Pulpit
Author: Robert H. Ellison
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
ISBN: 9781575910147
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Victorian Pulpit is the first book to employ the methods of orality-literacy scholarship in the study of the nineteenth-century British sermon. The first chapters present three ways in which Victorian preaching was a conflation of oral and written practice. The second part is an analysis of the rhetoric of three prominent ministers. The book concludes by suggesting other ways of bringing orality-literacy studies and Victorian scholarship together.
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
ISBN: 9781575910147
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Victorian Pulpit is the first book to employ the methods of orality-literacy scholarship in the study of the nineteenth-century British sermon. The first chapters present three ways in which Victorian preaching was a conflation of oral and written practice. The second part is an analysis of the rhetoric of three prominent ministers. The book concludes by suggesting other ways of bringing orality-literacy studies and Victorian scholarship together.
Victorian Nonconformity
Author: David W Bebbington
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
ISBN: 0718843061
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Nonconformists of England and Wales, the Protestants outside the Church of England, were particularly numerous in the Victorian years. These Methodists, Congregationalists, Baptists, Quakers, Unitarians, and others helped shape society and made their mark in politics. This book explains the main characteristics of each denomination and examines the circumstances that enabled them to grow. It evaluates the main academic hypothesis about their role and points to signs of their subsequent decline in the twentieth century. Here is a succinct account of an important dimension of the Christian past in Britain.
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
ISBN: 0718843061
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Nonconformists of England and Wales, the Protestants outside the Church of England, were particularly numerous in the Victorian years. These Methodists, Congregationalists, Baptists, Quakers, Unitarians, and others helped shape society and made their mark in politics. This book explains the main characteristics of each denomination and examines the circumstances that enabled them to grow. It evaluates the main academic hypothesis about their role and points to signs of their subsequent decline in the twentieth century. Here is a succinct account of an important dimension of the Christian past in Britain.
A New History of the Sermon
Author: Robert H. Ellison
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004185720
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
This collection offers fresh perspectives on British and American preaching in the nineteenth century. Drawing on many religious traditions and addressing a host of cultural and political topics, it will appeal to scholars specializing in any number of academic fields.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004185720
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
This collection offers fresh perspectives on British and American preaching in the nineteenth century. Drawing on many religious traditions and addressing a host of cultural and political topics, it will appeal to scholars specializing in any number of academic fields.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Author: Patricia Stallings Kruppa
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351588370
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Originally published in 1982. This biography of Charles Haddon Spurgeon attempts to place the man within the framework of his time. The emphasis is upon Spurgeon as a representative Victorian, who succeeded because his values were those of the dominant middle class. This study also seeks to illuminate the motives which drove him, time after time, to seek the spotlight of controversy. C. H. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations to this day.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351588370
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Originally published in 1982. This biography of Charles Haddon Spurgeon attempts to place the man within the framework of his time. The emphasis is upon Spurgeon as a representative Victorian, who succeeded because his values were those of the dominant middle class. This study also seeks to illuminate the motives which drove him, time after time, to seek the spotlight of controversy. C. H. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations to this day.
The Dominance of Evangelicalism
Author: David W. Bebbington
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830825835
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
David W. Bebbington continues a compelling series of books charting the course of English-speaking evangelicalism over the last three hundred years. Evangelical culture at the end of the nineteenth century is set against the backdrop of imperial maneuverings in Great Britain and populist uprisings in the United States.
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830825835
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
David W. Bebbington continues a compelling series of books charting the course of English-speaking evangelicalism over the last three hundred years. Evangelical culture at the end of the nineteenth century is set against the backdrop of imperial maneuverings in Great Britain and populist uprisings in the United States.
Australian National Bibliography
Author:
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1734
Book Description
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1734
Book Description
Spurgeon
Author: Lewis A. Drummond
Publisher: Kregel Publications
ISBN: 9780825498305
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
This definitive biography includes never-before-told stories and facts about this renowned British preacher.
Publisher: Kregel Publications
ISBN: 9780825498305
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
This definitive biography includes never-before-told stories and facts about this renowned British preacher.
A World History of Christianity
Author: Adrian Hastings
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802848758
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
This superb volume provides the first genuinely global one-volume history of the rise and development of the Christian faith. An international team of specialists takes seriously the geographical diversity of the Christian story, discussing the impact of Christianity not only in the West but also in Latin America, Africa, India, the Orient and Australasia.
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802848758
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
This superb volume provides the first genuinely global one-volume history of the rise and development of the Christian faith. An international team of specialists takes seriously the geographical diversity of the Christian story, discussing the impact of Christianity not only in the West but also in Latin America, Africa, India, the Orient and Australasia.
Pitmen Preachers and Politics
Author: Robert Samuel Moore
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521203562
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A study of four Durham mining villages in the period 1870 to 1926 which examines the effects of Methodism on the political life of the villages during an especially important phase of trade union and political history. Professor Moore's research is both vivid and scholarly. He lived in the community, he can report first-hand on the villagers he talked with, and at the same time he produces an ambitious contribution to the social sciences.
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521203562
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A study of four Durham mining villages in the period 1870 to 1926 which examines the effects of Methodism on the political life of the villages during an especially important phase of trade union and political history. Professor Moore's research is both vivid and scholarly. He lived in the community, he can report first-hand on the villagers he talked with, and at the same time he produces an ambitious contribution to the social sciences.
Bibliography of Australia
Author: John Alexander Ferguson
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 9780642990495
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1204
Book Description
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 9780642990495
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1204
Book Description