Literature As Pulpit

Author : M. Wynn Thomas
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780708323427

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In the Shadow of the Pulpit by M. Wynn Thomas Pdf

Ranging from the nineteenth-century to the present, this book explores several central aspects of the ways in which the English-language poetry and fiction of Wales has responded to what was, for a crucial period of a century or so, the dominant culture of Wales: the culture of Welsh Nonconformity. In the introduction, the author reflects on why no sustained attempt has hitherto been made to investigate one of the formative cultural influences on modern 'Anglo-Welsh' literature, the Nonconformist inheritance. The importance of addressing this strange and significant cultural deficit is then explained, and a preliminary attempt made to capture something of the spirit of Welsh Nonconformity. The succeeding chapters address and seek to answer such questions as: What exactly did the Welsh chapels believe and do? Why have the English-language writers of Wales, from Caradoc Evans and Dylan Thomas to R.S. Thomas and the authors of today, been so fascinated by them? How accurate are the impressions we've been given of chapel life and chapel people in the English-language poetry and fiction of Wales? The answers offered may alter our views both of the Welsh Nonconformist past and of Welsh writing in English. One of the ideas advanced is that many of Wales' most important writers went to war with the preachers in their texts, and that their work is therefore the site of cultural struggle. Theirs was a war in words waged to determine who would have the last word on modern Welsh experience.

Author : Scott McLaren
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442619784

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Pulpit, Press, and Politics by Scott McLaren Pdf

When American Methodist preachers first arrived in Upper Canada in the 1790s, they brought with them more than an alluring religious faith. They also brought saddlebags stuffed with books published by the New York Methodist Book Concern – North America’s first denominational publisher – to sell along their preaching circuits. Pulpit, Press, and Politics traces the expansion of this remarkable transnational market from its earliest days to the mid-nineteenth century, a period of intense religious struggle in Upper Canada marked by fiery revivals, political betrayals, and bitter church schisms. The Methodist Book Concern occupied a central place in all this conflict as it powerfully shaped and subverted the religious and political identities of Canadian Methodists, particularly in the wake of the American Revolution. The Concern bankrolled the bulk of Canadian Methodist preaching and missionary activities, enabled and constrained evangelistic efforts among the colony’s Native groups, and clouded Methodist dealings with the British Wesleyans and other religious competitors north of the border. Even more importantly, as Methodists went on to assume a preeminent place in Upper Canada’s religious, cultural, and educational life, their ongoing reliance on the Methodist Book Concern played a crucial role in opening the way for the lasting acceptance and widespread use of American books and periodicals across the region.

Author : Emily Michelson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674075290

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The Pulpit and the Press in Reformation Italy by Emily Michelson Pdf

Italian sermons tell a story of the Reformation that credits preachers with using the pulpit, pen, and printing press to keep Italy Catholic when the region’s violent religious wars made the future uncertain, and with fashioning a post-Reformation Catholicism that would survive the competition and religious choice of their own time and ours.

Author : Randi R. Warne
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780889205635

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Literature as Pulpit by Randi R. Warne Pdf

Nellie L. McClung (1873-1951) was an internationally celebrated feminist and social activist whose success as a platform speaker was legendary. Her earliest notoriety was achieved as a writer, and during her lengthy career she authored four novels, two novellas, three collections of short stories, a two-volume autobiography and various collections of speeches, articles and wartime writing, to a total of sixteen volumes. All this served as a “pulpit” from which McClung could preach her gospel of feminist activism and social transformation. She was convinced that God’s intention for Creation was a “Fair Deal” for everyone; and that Canada, particularly the prairie West, was a perfect place to begin to bring that about. Woman suffrage, temperance and the ordination of women were keystones in the battle — engaged, in contrast to contemporary stereotypes, with a wit and compelling humour that won over enemies as it delighted her allies. Literature as Pulpit explores Nellie McClung’s vision of a “better world,” and the impediments to it, as expressed through her novels and her feminist “tract,” In Times Like These. It addresses the profoundly anti-feminist context within which McClung was forced to make her arguments, and notes her indebtedness to other feminist writers and thinkers of her day. Throughout, McClung’s religion of “active care” emerges as a consistent and harmonizing theme which integrates her feminism and social activism into a single empowering vision for social change.

Author : GERALD ROBERT. OWST,Owst
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0631070400

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Literature and Pulpit by GERALD ROBERT. OWST,Owst Pdf

Author : Gerald Robert Owst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCBK:C058319858

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Literature and Pulpit in Medieval England by Gerald Robert Owst Pdf

Author : Liz Shercliff
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334058380

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Preaching Women by Liz Shercliff Pdf

Should women who preach, preach as women? Preaching Women argues that far from being a gender-neutral space, the pulpit is a critical place in which a gender imbalance can begin to be redressed. There is a vital need for women preachers to speak out of their experience of living as women in today’s culture and church Filling a glaring gap in the literature around homiletics, Filling a glaring gap in the literature around homiletics, Preaching Women considers reasons why women preachers should preach from their experiences as women, what women bring to preaching that is missing without us, and how women preachers can go about the task of biblical preaching. With a foreword by Libby Lane.

Author : Garnet Terry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1809
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600018431

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The pulpit; or, A biographical and literary account of eminent popular preachers, interspersed with occasional clerical criticism, by Onesimus by Garnet Terry Pdf

Author : G. R. Owst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : English literature
ISBN : OCLC:318934525

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Literature and Pulpit in Medieval England by G. R. Owst Pdf

Author : Fritz Kemmler
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 3878084463

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"Exempla" in Context by Fritz Kemmler Pdf

Author : Gerald Robert Owst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:491521924

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Literature and Pulpit in Medieval England a Neglected Chapter in the History of English Lettern and of the English People by Gerald Robert Owst Pdf

Author : Spencer W. McBride
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813939575

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Pulpit and Nation by Spencer W. McBride Pdf

In Pulpit and Nation, Spencer McBride highlights the importance of Protestant clergymen in early American political culture, elucidating the actual role of religion in the founding era. Beginning with colonial precedents for clerical involvement in politics and concluding with false rumors of Thomas Jefferson’s conversion to Christianity in 1817, this book reveals the ways in which the clergy’s political activism—and early Americans’ general use of religious language and symbols in their political discourse—expanded and evolved to become an integral piece in the invention of an American national identity. Offering a fresh examination of some of the key junctures in the development of the American political system—the Revolution, the ratification debates of 1787–88, and the formation of political parties in the 1790s—McBride shows how religious arguments, sentiments, and motivations were subtly interwoven with political ones in the creation of the early American republic. Ultimately, Pulpit and Nation reveals that while religious expression was common in the political culture of the Revolutionary era, it was as much the calculated design of ambitious men seeking power as it was the natural outgrowth of a devoutly religious people.

Author : Donyelle C. McCray
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781978709676

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The Censored Pulpit by Donyelle C. McCray Pdf

Few have consoled the church as ably as the fourteenth-century mystic Julian of Norwich. However, her prophetic gifts have received little scholarly attention. Drawing on contemporary homiletical theory and the history of Christian spirituality, Donyelle C. McCray presents Julian as a preacher, examining the apostolic dimensions of Julian’s vocation as an anchoress and highlighting the steps she took to align herself with renowned preachers like Saint Cecelia, Mary Magdalene, and the apostle Paul. Like Paul, Julian saw Jesus’ body as her primary text, placed human weakness at the center of her theology, and used her own confined body as a rhetorical tool. Yet she navigated a web of censorship that threatened to silence her. To voice her convictions, Julian developed a novel approach to authority and exploited the fluidity of the medieval English sermon genre. McCray charts this process, revealing Julian as a central personality in the history of preaching whose best contemporary parallels operate outside the pulpit in august figures like retreat leader Evelyn Underhill, gospel singer Mother Willie Mae Ford Smith, and street preacher Reverend Billy.

Author : Mary Baker Eddy
Publisher : Tredition Classics
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3842425155

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Pulpit and Press (6th Edition) by Mary Baker Eddy Pdf

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from each sold copy. As a reader of a TREDITION CLASSICS book, you support our mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion.

Author : Elizabeth H. Flowers
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780807869987

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Into the Pulpit by Elizabeth H. Flowers Pdf

The debate over women's roles in the Southern Baptist Convention's conservative ascendance is often seen as secondary to theological and biblical concerns. Elizabeth Flowers argues, however, that for both moderate and conservative Baptist women--all of whom had much at stake--disagreements that touched on their familial roles and ecclesial authority have always been primary. And, in the turbulent postwar era, debate over their roles caused fierce internal controversy. While the legacy of race and civil rights lingered well into the 1990s, views on women's submission to male authority provided the most salient test by which moderates were identified and expelled in a process that led to significant splits in the Church. In Flowers's expansive history of Southern Baptist women, the "woman question" is integral to almost every area of Southern Baptist concern: hermeneutics, ecclesial polity, missionary work, church-state relations, and denominational history. Flowers's analysis, part of the expanding survey of America's religious and cultural landscape after World War II, points to the South's changing identity and connects religious and regional issues to the complicated relationship between race and gender during and after the civil rights movement. She also shows how feminism and shifting women's roles, behaviors, and practices played a significant part in debates that simmer among Baptists and evangelicals throughout the nation today.