The fourth volume in Brill's series A New History of the Sermon, this study examines the sermon during the 'long' eighteenth century - the era between Bossuet and Schleiermacher. It offers a broad outline of the history of preaching in this period, an overview of the research over the past three decades, and suggestions for new approaches to the subject. Thematically, the book includes chapters on such topics as the theology of the eighteenth-century sermon, preachers' instructions, the sermon in daily life, delivery as a means of reaching congregations, and audience reception of...

The latest installment in Brill's A New History of the Sermon series offers innovative studies of sacred rhetoric in the nineteenth century. The three sections--Theory and Theology, Sermon and Society in the British Empire, and Sermon and Society in America--contain a total of sixteen essays on such topics as biblical criticism, Charles Darwin, the Oxford Movement, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), English Catholicism, sermon-novels, and the slave trade on both sides of the Atlantic. Multiple traditions are represented, including the Anglican and Presbyterian churches,...