Preaching And Narrative In Piers Plowman

Author : Alastair Bennett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192886286

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Preaching and Narrative in Piers Plowman by Alastair Bennett Pdf

William Langland's Piers Plowman was written and read during a “golden age” of English preaching. The poem describes a world where sermons took many different forms and were delivered in many different contexts, from public events in the life of the realm to pastoral instruction in the parish. It dramatises preaching as part of its allegorical action, showing how sermons shaped their listeners' understanding of the world; it also includes polemical critique of corrupt, self-interested preaching, and offers radical prescriptions for its reform. This book argues that Langland's central insight into the way that sermons moved and engaged their audiences had to do with their characteristic use of narrative. Preachers in the poem address listeners who are absorbed in the concerns of their present moment, and encourage them to new forms of social and spiritual endeavour by locating that moment in a larger, interpreted plot: the story of an individual life, or an emergent community, or of salvation history as a whole. The book employs a critical vocabulary derived from Paul Ricoeur to describe the process by which these narratives are composed, and to show how they mediate and reconfigure their listeners' experiences.

Author : Alastair Bennett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192886262

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Preaching and Narrative in Piers Plowman by Alastair Bennett Pdf

William Langland's Piers Plowman was written and read during a "golden age" of English preaching. The poem describes a world where sermons took many different forms and were delivered in many different contexts, from public events in the life of the realm to pastoral instruction in the parish. It dramatises preaching as part of its allegorical action, showing how sermons shaped their listeners' understanding of the world; it also includes polemical critique of corrupt, self-interested preaching, and offers radical prescriptions for its reform. This book argues that Langland's central insight into the way that sermons moved and engaged their audiences had to do with their characteristic use of narrative. Preachers in the poem address listeners who are absorbed in the concerns of their present moment, and encourage them to new forms of social and spiritual endeavour by locating that moment in a larger, interpreted plot: the story of an individual life, or an emergent community, or of salvation history as a whole. The book employs a critical vocabulary derived from Paul Ricoeur to describe the process by which these narratives are composed, and to show how they mediate and reconfigure their listeners' experiences.

Author : Elizabeth Salter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015008596242

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Piers Plowman by Elizabeth Salter Pdf

Author : Sarah Wood
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781914049071

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Piers Plowman and Its Manuscript Tradition by Sarah Wood Pdf

The first full survey of crucial witnesses to the reception of Piers Plowman.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047400226

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Preacher, Sermon and Audience in the Middle Ages by Anonim Pdf

Preacher, Sermon and Audience in the Middle Ages presents research by specialists of preaching history and literature. This volume fills some of the lacunae which exists in medieval sermon studies. The topics include: an analysis of how oral and written cultures meet in sermon literature, the function of vernacular sermons, an examination of the usefulness of non-sermon sources such as art in the study of preaching history, sermon genres, the significance of heretical preaching, audience composition and its influence on sermon content, and the use of rhetoric in sermon construction. The study looks at preaching history and literature from a wide geographical and chronological area which includes examples from Anglo-Saxon England to late medieval Italy. While doing so, it outlines the state of sermon studies research and points to new areas of investigation.

Author : Willi Erzgräber,Sabine Volk-Birke
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Civilization, Medieval, in literature
ISBN : 3878083955

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Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit im englischen Mittelalter by Willi Erzgräber,Sabine Volk-Birke Pdf

Author : Mary Clemente Davlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351884204

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The Place of God in Piers Plowman and Medieval Art by Mary Clemente Davlin Pdf

Probing spatial questions about God posed by Piers Plowman, the author of this interdisciplinary study turns to pictorial evidence-the use of religious space and relationships within such space in English art of the same period. The Place of God in Piers Plowman and Medieval Art is not only a study of the sense of God and of the relationship between God and creatures in the great religious poem, but also an analysis of art works of the high Middle Ages, especially English manuscript illuminations, in their placement of God. Such interdisciplinary analysis historicizes both literature and art, uncovering ways that medieval people imagined God and the understandings that they would have been able to bring to reading and viewing religious art.

Author : Calvin Miller
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441201238

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Preaching by Calvin Miller Pdf

Because they are speaking to a younger society more attuned to lively dialogue and visual images, pastors need a fresh wineskin for a timeless message of redemption. Calvin Miller, who has preached and equipped preachers for decades, offers a volume of helpful insights for pastors to deliver the heart of the gospel via the Jesus-endorsed vessel of compelling storytelling. For the working pastor, Miller's crash course on preaching is a welcomed study. Now available in trade paper.

Author : Roger Standing
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725230972

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Finding the Plot by Roger Standing Pdf

"Preaching at its best is 'truth on fire.' The real quality of this book is that it has been created from the author's own experience of the local pastorate and is concerned with practical insights and realities. I warmly recommend it." --David Coffey, Moderator of the Free Churches and General Secretary of the Baptist Union "For some, the phrase 'finding the plot' suggests a stroll through a graveyard, which is much like their view of preaching. But Roger Standing uses the phrase to describe narrative preaching, an approach that helps preachers accomplish their essential task: to raise the dead." --Marshall Shelley, Vice President, Christianity Today International and editor of Leadership "This book, from a seasoned practitioner and an able thinker, will provide the signposts required by many either for transforming their preaching style in mid-career, or for setting off on the right foot." --Nigel G. Wright, Principal of Spurgeon's College, London "Roger Standing breezily shares his enthusiasm for narrative preaching. He combines theory about narrative and its cultural relevance with practical advice and preaching examples. A helpful stimulus to any preacher to branch out into narrative preaching." --Michael Quicke, Charles Koller Professor of Preaching and Communications

Author : Mike Graves
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620328736

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The Story of Narrative Preaching by Mike Graves Pdf

Forty years ago the one thing that could be said about sermons was they were biblical. Unfortunately, they were sometimes tedious too. Narrative preaching aimed to fix that, advocating for a dynamic experience of the text over against a static lecture. Preaching could be like the parables of Jesus, intriguing and compelling. The Story of Narrative Preaching is the story of seven students who are enrolled in Professor Freeman's preaching course. Once a new trend, narrative preaching is now older than most of them. As Professor Freeman notes, two things went wrong with narrative styles: over time the church became biblically and theologically illiterate, and the promised stress on experience didn't always measure up to the weight of the gospel. Readers are invited to sit in on the class, to reflect on the expositional nature of preaching and to experience the stories of some modern storytellers--Flannery O'Connor, Alice Walker, and others--to see what they might teach us about narratives of depth. In the end we discover what may be the most important word in preaching.

Author : Rita Copeland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192659750

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Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages by Rita Copeland Pdf

Rhetoric is an engine of social discourse and the art charged with generating and swaying emotion. The history of rhetoric provides a continuous structure by which we can measure how emotions were understood, articulated, and mobilized under various historical circumstances and social contracts. This book is about how rhetoric in the West, from Late Antiquity to the later Middle Ages, represented the role of emotion in shaping persuasions. It is the first book-length study of medieval rhetoric and the emotions, coloring that rhetorical history between about 600 CE and the cusp of early modernity. Rhetoric in the Middle Ages, as in other periods, constituted the gateway training for anyone engaged in emotionally persuasive writing. Medieval rhetorical thought on emotion has multiple strands of influence and sedimentations of practice. The earliest and most persistent tradition treated emotional persuasion as a property of surface stylistic effect, which can be seen in the medieval rhetorics of poetry and prose, and in literary production. But the impact of Aristotelian rhetoric, which reached the Latin West in the thirteenth century, gave emotional persuasion a core role in reasoning, incorporating it into the key device of proof, the enthymeme. In Aristotle, medieval teachers and writers found a new rhetorical language to explain the social and psychological factors that affect an audience. With Aristotelian rhetoric, the emotions became political. The impact of Aristotle's rhetorical approach to emotions was to be felt in medieval political treatises, in poetry, and in preaching.

Author : Mike Graves
Publisher : Chalice Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11
Category : Angels
ISBN : 9780827242784

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What's the Shape of Narrative Preaching? by Mike Graves Pdf

They are there after an urgent need, a moment of desperation. Like Ellen Cardwell?s telling of a highway angel who helped Ellen and her husband resume their trip after car trouble on California?s desolate Highway 1. Or Delores Topliff?s memory from her childhood, when on the brink of starvation, an angel on a bicycle dropped off bags of groceries. These stories will challenge and reward your faith in God?a God Who tells us to entertain strangers and, possibly, Heavenly Company. Contained within this book is an exclusive collection of real-life encounters with God?s angels and mysterious helpful strangers. Best-selling author Cecil Murphey (coauthor of 90 Minutes in Heaven and more than one hundred other books) and his cowriter Twila Belk masterfully bring together brand-new reports from all over the world that share one thing in common: the way in which God uses messengers to touch our lives. Filled with hundreds of pages of stories that will excite your spirit and touch your heart, you?ll travel from Africa to Texas to Russia and back again. Curl up with this powerful book and read amazing true accounts of individuals who have encountered angels, both seen and unseen.

Author : William Langland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1974640892

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Piers Plowman by William Langland Pdf

Written by a fourteenth-century cleric, this spiritual allegory explores man in relation to his ultimate destiny against the background of teeming, colorful medieval life

Author : Robert Edwards
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0859914070

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Art and Context in Late Medieval English Narrative by Robert Edwards Pdf

The twelve studies divide into three groups.

Author : Jon Russell
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334056553

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The Preacher's Tale by Jon Russell Pdf

Many clergy receive little training in the arts of preaching and it is assumed that they will learn by gaining experience. The renowned American preacher Herbert O’Driscoll suggests that congregations do not want to be given a map showing them how to get to the coast, they want to be drenched in the spray. Narrative preaching is a means of achieving such immediacy. By dramatic story-telling, it invites listeners into enter the text imaginatively and enables them to experience sermons as transformative events. This book aims to provide not just a theoretical introduction, but a resource that uses sermons in the narrative style to reflect on how to prepare and construct them and how to deliver them effectively in the context of worship.