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Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church The Medieval Church

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ISBN-10: 080284619X

ISBN-13: 9780802846198

Edition: 1999

Authors: Hughes Oliphant Old

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List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 640
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.38" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English

Hughes Oliphant Old is a former member of the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey and a former pastor. He is the author of a multi-volume history of preaching.

Introduction
Byzantine Preaching
Romanos the Melode (fl. ca. 540)
The Age of Justinian
The Conventionalizing of Preaching
Sermons for Easter
The Kontakion as Homiletical Poetry
John of Damascus (ca. 645-ca. 750)
The Confrontation with Islam
The Neoplatonizing of Christian Worship
Andrew of Crete (660-740)
Theodore of Studion (759-826)
Photius (810-95)
A Prophetic Preacher
Photius as Exegete
A Master of the Art of Oratory
A Theology of the Holy Spirit and a Theology of Worship
Theophylactus of Ochrid (ca. 1050-ca. 1108)
Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022)
A Pietist Approach to the Ministry of the Word
The Vision of God as Worship
The Byzantine Lectionary
The Mission to the Barbarians
The Mission in Gaul
Caesarius of Arles (ca. 470-542)
The Gallican Lectionary
The Mission in Spain
Martin of Braga (ca. 520-80)
Isidore of Seville (ca. 560-636) and the Mozarabic Lectionary
The Mission of the Celtic Church
Patrick
Columba (ca. 521-97)
Columbanus (ca. 543-615)
The Anglo-Saxon Mission
The Venerable Bede (673-735)
The Mission in Germany
Boniface (680-754)
Pirmin (ca. 700-753)
The Shaping of the Roman Lectionary
Leo the Great and the First Movements toward the Lectionary
The "Gelasian" Lectionaries
The Gregorian Lectionaries
The Benedictines
Charlemagne (ca. 742-814)
Alcuin (ca. 735-804) and the Lectionary
Paul the Deacon (ca. 720-ca. 800) and the Homiliary
Rabanus Maurus of Mainz (ca. 780-ca. 856)
Haimo of Auxerre (ca. 790-ca. 855)
Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Pres (ca. 870-ca. 940)
Peter Damian (1007-72)
Prophet of Asceticism
Sermons for Saints' Days
The Witness of the Martyrs
Julian of Vezelay (ca. 1080-ca. 1160)
Conclusion -- Why It All Went to Seed
The Cistercians
Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1151)
Preaching the Crusades
Bernard's Festal Preaching
Sermons on Psalm 91
Sermons on the Song of Solomon
Bernard as Expositor
Guerric of Igny
Aelred of Rievaulx (1109-67)
Conclusion -- The Rebirth of Preaching
The Schools
Peter Abelard (1079-1142)
Richard of Saint Victor (ca. 1100-1173)
The Heavenly Concerns of the Gospel
Thematic Preaching
The Spiritual Sense
The Priest as Preacher
Maurice of Sully (ca. 1120-96)
Alan of Lille (d. 1202)
Jacques de Vitry (ca. 1170-1240)
Conclusion
Franciscan Preaching
Francis of Assisi (1181-1226)
Anthony of Padua (1195-1231)
The Revival in Padua
The Easter Gospel
Bonaventure (ca. 1217-74)
Festal Sermons
Sermons for Saints' Days
Sermons on the Gospel of John
Sermons on the Six Days of Creation
Berthold of Regensburg (ca. 1220-72)
The Dominicans
Dominic (ca. 1171-1221)
Guillaume de Peyraut (ca. 1190-1271)
The Summa of Moral Theology
Preaching as Moral Catechism
Humbert of Romans (1200-1277)
On the Formation of Preachers
The Growing Importance of the Occasional Sermon
Thomas Aquinas (ca. 1225-74)
Sermons on the Creed
Sermon Illustrations
Authorities and Authority
Jacopo da Varagine (ca. 1230-98)
Conclusion
The German Mystics
Meister Eckhart (ca. 1260-1327)
Mysticism and Scripture
The Tropological Sense of Scripture
Mysticism and the Ministry of the Word
John Tauler (ca. 1300-1361)
The Czech Reform
Jan Milic (ca. 1325-74)
Matej z Janova (ca. 1355-93)
Jan Hus (ca. 1372-1415)
The Prophetic Tradition in the Late Middle Ages
The Postils of Hus
The Hermeneutic of Hus
Jan Zelivsky (ca. 1390-1422)
The Preaching of Nominalist Pietism
Jean Gerson (1363-1429)
Sermons at the Council of Constance
Sermons on the Seven Deadly Sins
Good Friday Sermon for 1403
Thomas a Kempis (1380-1471)
Devotio Moderna
Monasticism for Everyone
Nicholas of Cusa (1401-64)
Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg (1445-1510)
The Ship of Fools
The Advent Sermons for 1495
The Strasbourg Plenarium
Reform before the Reformation
Preaching in Italy at the Birth of the Renaissance
Bernardino da Siena (1380-1444)
The Florentine Revival of 1424
The Sienese Revival of 1425
The Padua Revival of 1443
Giovanni da Capestrano (1386-1456)
Roberto Caracciolo (1425-95)
Girolamo Savonarola (1452-98)
The Prophetic Spirit
Prophet of the Christian Republic of Florence
The Preaching of the Canonical Prophets in Renaissance Italy
Preaching and Martyrdom
Bibliography
Index