The Oxford Handbook of the British Sermon 1689-1901

Cover\nContents\nList of Contributors\nPreface\nPART I: INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS\n	1. The British Sermon 1689–1901: Quantities, Performance, and Culture\n	2. Sermons: Themes and Developments\nPART II: COMMUNITIES, CULTURES AND COMMUNICATION\n	3. Parish Preaching in the Long Eighteenth Century\n	4. Parish Preaching in the Victorian Era: The Village Sermon\n	5. Preaching from the Platform\n	6. The British Quaker Sermon, 1689–1901\n	7. The Sermons of the Eighteenth-Century Evangelicals\n	8. Sermons in British Catholicism to the Restoration of the Hierarchy (1689–1850)\n	9. Preaching in the Churches of Scotland\n	10. The Sermon and Political Controversy in Ireland, 1800–1850\n	11. Sermons in Wales in the Established Church\n	12. Preaching in the Vernacular: The Welsh Sermon, 1689–1901\n	13. Order and Uniformity, Decorum, and Taste: Sermons Preached at the Anniversary Meeting of the Three Choirs, 1720–1800\nPART III: OCCASIONAL SERMONS\n	14. The Sermon, Court, and Parliament, 1689–1789\n	15. The Defence of Georgian Britain: The Anti-Jacobite Sermon, 1715–1746\n	16. Preaching, National Salvation, Victories, and Thanksgivings: 1689–1800\n	17. Sermons in the Age of the American and French Revolutions\n	18. ‘This Itching Ear’d Age’: Visitation Sermons and Charges in the Eighteenth Century\n	19. Consecration Sermons\n	20. The Protestant Funeral Sermon in England, 1688–1800\n	21. The Victorian Funeral Sermon\nPART IV: CONTROVERSIES, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF IDEAS\n	22. Hard Labour: Institutional Benevolence and the Development of National Education\n	23. Sermons for End Times: Evangelicalism, Romanticism, and Apocalypse in Britain\n	24. Rationalism, the Enlightenment, and Sermons\n	25. Preaching the Oxford Movement\n	26. Sermons and the Catholic Restoration\n	27. Paley to Darwin: Natural Theology versus Science in Victorian Sermons\n	28. Preaching the Broad Church Gospel: The Natal Sermons of Bishop John William Colenso\nPART V: MISSIONS AND IDEAS OF EMPIRE\n	29. From Barbarism to Civility, from Darkness to Light: Preaching Empire as Sacred History\n	30. Eighteenth-Century Mission Sermons\n	31. The Sermon in the British Colonies\n	32. Church of Ireland Missions to Roman Catholics, c.1700–1800\n	33. ‘Go ye therefore and teach all nations.’ Evangelical and Mission Sermons: The Imperial Period\nPART VI: SERMONS AND LITERATURE\n	34. The Poet-Preachers\n	35. Tradition, Preaching, and the Gothic Revival\n	36. The Sermon and the Victorian Novel\nPART VII: CONCLUSION\n	37. Sermon Studies: Major Issues and Future Directions\nIndex\n	A\n	B\n	C\n	D\n	E\n	F\n	G\n	H\n	I\n	J\n	K\n	L\n	M\n	N\n	O\n	P\n	Q\n	R\n	S\n	T\n	U\n	V\n	W\n	Y\n	Z