125th Annual Meeting (January 6-9, 2011): The Sermon as a (New) Tool for the Study of the History of Christianity

The Sermon as a (New) Tool for the Study of the History of Christianity

American Society of Church History 25

Saturday, January 8, 2011: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM

St. George Room B (The Westin Copley Place)

Chair:

William Gibson, Oxford Brookes University

Topics:

The Sermon and Politics in Ireland, 1800–50
Irene Whelan, Manhattanville College

Rhetorical Criticism and the Victorian Sermon
Robert H. Ellison, independent scholar

Fundraising Theology? Anglican Charity Sermons and Nineteenth-Century Social Causes
Keith A. Francis, Oxford Brookes University

"Primitive, Protestant, and Puritanic": George Whitefield and the Revitalization of Calvinist Preaching in the Eighteenth Century
David Ceri Jones, Aberystwyth University

The Funeral Sermon and the Transitions of Victorian Religion
John R. Wolffe, The Open University

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