Preaching And Theology In Anglo Saxon England

Author : Milton McC. Gatch
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1977-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781487597405

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Preaching and Theology in Anglo-Saxon England by Milton McC. Gatch Pdf

In Preaching and Theology in Anglo-Saxon England, Professor Gatch deals with two aspects of the writings of Ælfric and Wulfstan that have been hitherto ignored by scholars of the period. First, he investigates the uses for which the two homilists prepared their sermons, analysing the homiliaries of the Carolingian church and its legislation concerning preaching and teaching, and showing that one should look not to the model of patristic preaching but to the development, in the place of exegetical preaching, of a vernacular catechetical office, the Prone. He also considers the evidence from England in the time of Ælfric and Wulfstan, distinguishing a number of uses which Ælfric intended for his homiletic materials, but questioning whether users of Ælfric's work (Wulfstan perhaps among them) understood or accepted the basic homiletic practices that the abbot had in mind. Second, Gatch investigates the eschatological teaching of the homilists as specimen of the over-all content of their sermons and as indicator of their theological method. By throwing their work into relief against the background of the anonymous Old English homilists, he gives a more accurate picture than exists in textbook stereotypes of the beliefs of Ælfric and Wulfstan, and also of the general theological scene in England at the turn of the tenth and eleventh centuries. The first complete edition of Ælfric's Latin epitome of Julian of Toledo's Prognosticon futuri saeculi, one of the most important of Ælfric's theological sources, is appended to the text. This interdisciplinary study is an important addition to our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon culture and medieval church history, and a major contribution to the study of Old English homilies. For the uninitiated, it is an excellent introduction to Old English preaching; for the initiated, it opens a new field for investigation.

Author : Milton McCormick Gatch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Civilization, Anglo-Saxon
ISBN : OCLC:29381171

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Preaching and Theology in Anglo-Saxon England by Milton McCormick Gatch Pdf

Author : Eric John
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0719050537

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Reassessing Anglo-Saxon England by Eric John Pdf

Brilliantly and entertainingly written, this new and original analysis is the fruit of 30 years of scholarship and therefore has something of the nature of a testament. Mr. John uses anthropological insight to understand the Anglo-Saxon nature.

Author : Michael Lapidge,Helmut Gneuss,Cambridge University Press
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521259026

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Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England by Michael Lapidge,Helmut Gneuss,Cambridge University Press Pdf

An collection of essays by specialists in the field examining Anglo-Saxon learning and text interpretation and transmission.

Author : Paul E. Szarmach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000525137

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Old English Prose by Paul E. Szarmach Pdf

First published in 2001. With the decline of formalism and its predilection for Old English poetry, Old English prose is leaving the periphery and moving into the center of literary and cultural discussion. The extensive corpus of Old English prose lends many texts of various kinds to the current debates over literary theory and its multiple manifestations. The purpose of this collection is to assist the growing interest in Old English prose by providing essays that help establish the foundations for considered study and offer models and examples of special studies. Both retrospective and current in its examples, this collection can serve as a "first book" for an introduction to study, particularly suitable for courses that seek to entertain such issues as authorship, texts and textuality, source criticism, genre, and forms of historical criticism as a significant part of a broad, cultural teaching (and research) plan.

Author : Brandon W. Hawk
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487503055

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Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England by Brandon W. Hawk Pdf

Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England is the first examination of Christian apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England, focusing on the use of biblical narratives in Old English sermons. This work demonstrates that apocryphal media are a substantial part of the apparatus of Christian tradition inherited by Anglo-Saxons.

Author : Paul Cavill
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 0859918416

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The Christian Tradition in Anglo-Saxon England by Paul Cavill Pdf

Essays exploring a wide array of sources that show the importance of Christian ideas and influences in Anglo-Saxon England. A unique and important contribution to both teaching and scholarship. Professor Elaine Treharne, Stanford University. This is a collection of essays exploring a wide array of sources that show the importance ofChristian ideas and influences in Anglo-Saxon England. The range of treatment is exceptionally diverse. Some of the essays develop new approaches to familiar texts, such as Beowulf, The Wanderer and The Seafarer; others deal with less familiar texts and genres to illustrate the role of Christian ideas in a variety of contexts, from preaching to remembrance of the dead, and from the court of King Cnut to the monastic library. Some of the essays are informative, providing essential background material for understanding the nature of the Bible, or the distinction between monastic and cleric in Anglo-Saxon England; others provide concise surveys of material evidence orgenres; others still show how themes can be used in constructing and evaluating courses teaching the tradition. Contributors: GRAHAM CAIE, PAUL CAVILL, CATHERINE CUBITT, JUDITH JESCH, RICHARD MARSDEN, ELISABETH OKASHA, BARBARA C. RAW, PHILIPPA SEMPER, DABNEY BANKERT, SANTHA BHATTACHARJI, HUGH MAGENNIS, MARY SWAN, JONATHAN M. WOODING.

Author : Helen Foxhall Forbes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317123071

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Heaven and Earth in Anglo-Saxon England by Helen Foxhall Forbes Pdf

Christian theology and religious belief were crucially important to Anglo-Saxon society, and are manifest in the surviving textual, visual and material evidence. This is the first full-length study investigating how Christian theology and religious beliefs permeated society and underpinned social values in early medieval England. The influence of the early medieval Church as an institution is widely acknowledged, but Christian theology itself is generally considered to have been accessible only to a small educated elite. This book shows that theology had a much greater and more significant impact than has been recognised. An examination of theology in its social context, and how it was bound up with local authorities and powers, reveals a much more subtle interpretation of secular processes, and shows how theological debate affected the ways that religious and lay individuals lived and died. This was not a one-way flow, however: this book also examines how social and cultural practices and interests affected the development of theology in Anglo-Saxon England, and how ’popular’ belief interacted with literary and academic traditions. Through case-studies, this book explores how theological debate and discussion affected the personal perspectives of Christian Anglo-Saxons, including where possible those who could not read. In all of these, it is clear that theology was not detached from society or from the experiences of lay people, but formed an essential constituent part.

Author : Gerald P. Dyson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783273669

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Priests and Their Books in Late Anglo-Saxon England by Gerald P. Dyson Pdf

Fresh perspectives on the English clergy, their books, and the wider Anglo-Saxon church.

Author : Rev. O.C. Edwards JR.
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781501834035

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A History of Preaching Volume 1 by Rev. O.C. Edwards JR. Pdf

A History of Preaching brings together narrative history and primary sources to provide the most comprehensive guide available to the story of the church's ministry of proclamation. Bringing together an impressive array of familiar and lesser-known figures, Edwards paints a detailed, compelling picture of what it has meant to preach the gospel. Pastors, scholars, and students of homiletics will find here many opportunities to enrich their understanding and practice of preaching. Volume 1 contains Edwards's magisterial retelling of the story of Christian preaching's development from its Hellenistic and Jewish roots in the New Testament, through the late-twentieth century's discontent with outdated forms and emphasis on new modes of preaching such as narrative. Along the way the author introduces us to the complexities and contributions of preachers, both with whom we are already acquainted, and to whom we will be introduced here for the first time. Origen, Chrysostom, Augustine, Bernard, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, Wesley, Edwards, Rauschenbusch, Barth; all of their distinctive contributions receive careful attention. Yet lesser-known figures and developments also appear, from the ninth-century reform of preaching championed by Hrabanus Maurus, to the reference books developed in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries by the mendicant orders to assist their members' preaching, to Howell Harris and Daniel Rowlands, preachers of the eighteenth-century Welsh revival, to Helen Kenyon, speaking as a layperson at the 1950 Yale Beecher lectures about the view of preaching from the pew. Volume 2, available separately as 9781501833786, contains primary source material on preaching drawn from the entire scope of the church's twenty centuries. The author has written an introduction to each selection, placing it in its historical context and pointing to its particular contribution. Each chapter in Volume 2 is geared to its companion chapter in Volume 1's narrative history. Ecumenical in scope, fair-minded in presentation, appreciative of the contributions that all the branches of the church have made to the story of what it means to develop, deliver, and listen to a sermon, A History of Preaching will be the definitive resource for anyone who wishes to preach or to understand preaching's role in living out the gospel. "...'This work is expected to be the standard text on preaching for the next 30 years,' says Ann K. Riggs, who staffs the NCC's Faith and Order Commission. Author Edwards, former professor of preaching at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, is co-moderator of the commission, which studies church-uniting and church-dividing issues. 'A History of Preaching is ecumenical in scope and will be relevant in all our churches; we all participate in this field,' says Riggs...." from EcuLink, Number 65, Winter 2004-2005 published by the National Council of Churches

Author : Rory Naismith,David A. Woodman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107160972

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Writing, Kingship, and Power in Anglo-Saxon England by Rory Naismith,David A. Woodman Pdf

This book brings together new research that represents current scholarship on the nexus between authority and written sources from Anglo-Saxon England. Ranging from the seventh to the eleventh century, the chapters in this volume offer fresh approaches to a wide range of linguistic, historical, legal, diplomatic and palaeographical evidence.

Author : Francesca Tinti
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1843831562

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Pastoral Care in Late Anglo-Saxon England by Francesca Tinti Pdf

The role of pastoral care reconsidered in the context of major changes within the Anglo-Saxon church. The tenth and eleventh centuries saw a number of very significant developments in the history of the English Church, perhaps the most important being the proliferation of local churches, which were to be the basis of the modern parochial system. Using evidence from homilies, canon law, saints' lives, and liturgical and penitential sources, the articles collected in this volume focus on the ways in which such developments were reflected in pastoral care, considering what it consisted of at this time, how it was provided and by whom. Starting with an investigation of the secular clergy, their recruitment and patronage, the papers move on to examine a variety of aspects of late Anglo-Saxon pastoral care, including church due payments, preaching, baptism, penance, confession, visitation of the sick and archaeological evidence of burial practice. Special attention is paid to the few surviving manuscripts which are likely to have been used in the field and the evidence they provide for the context, the actions and the verbal exchanges which characterised pastoral provisions.

Author : Andrew Hass,David Jasper,Elisabeth Jay
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks Online
Page : 909 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199271979

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The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology by Andrew Hass,David Jasper,Elisabeth Jay Pdf

A defining volume of essays in which leading international scholars apply an interdisciplinary approach to the long and evolving relationship between English Literature and Theology.

Author : Michael Lapidge,Malcolm Godden,Simon Keynes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0521807727

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Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 31 by Michael Lapidge,Malcolm Godden,Simon Keynes Pdf

Anglo-Saxon England consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture. Articles in volume 31 include: The landscape of Beowulf; Sceaf, Japheth and the origins of the Anglo-Saxons; The Anglo-Saxons and the Goths: rewriting the sack of Rome; The Old English Bede and the construction of Anglo-Saxon authority; Daniel, the Three Youths fragment and the transmission of Old English verse; Aelfric on the creation and fall of the angels; The Colophon of the Eadwig Gospels; Public penance in Anglo-Saxon England; Bibliography for 2001.

Author : Karen Louise Jolly
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469611143

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Popular Religion in Late Saxon England by Karen Louise Jolly Pdf

In tenth- and eleventh-century England, Anglo-Saxon Christians retained an old folk belief in elves as extremely dangerous creatures capable of harming unwary humans. To ward off the afflictions caused by these invisible beings, Christian priests modified traditional elf charms by adding liturgical chants to herbal remedies. In Popular Religion in Late Saxon England, Karen Jolly traces this cultural intermingling of Christian liturgy and indigenous Germanic customs and argues that elf charms and similar practices represent the successful Christianization of native folklore. Jolly describes a dual process of conversion in which Anglo-Saxon culture became Christianized but at the same time left its own distinct imprint on Christianity. Illuminating the creative aspects of this dynamic relationship, she identifies liturgical folk medicine as a middle ground between popular and elite, pagan and Christian, magic and miracle. Her analysis, drawing on the model of popular religion to redefine folklore and magic, reveals the richness and diversity of late Saxon Christianity.