Author: Robert SouthPublisher:
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Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Twelve Sermons Preached at Several Times, and Upon Several Occasions
Author: Robert SouthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Twelve Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions
Author: Robert SouthTwelve sermons preach'd upon several occasions
Author: Richard KIDDER (Bishop of Bath and Wells.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions
Author: Robert SouthPublisher:
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Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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The Sermons of Charles Wesley
Author: Charles WesleyPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191520624
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Charles Wesley (1707-1788) is widely recognized as one of the greatest writers of the English hymn. The importance of Charles, however, extends well beyond his undoubted poetic abilities, for he is a figure of central importance in the context of the birth and early growth of Methodism, a movement which today has a worldwide presence. It was Charles and not John who first started the Oxford 'Holy Club' from which the ethos and structures of organised Methodism were eventually to emerge. It was Charles rather than John who first experienced the 'strange warming of the heart' that characterised the experience of many eighteenth-century evangelicals; and in the early years it was Charles no less than John who sought to spread, mainly through his preaching, the evangelical message across England, Wales, and Ireland. Eye witness testimony suggests that Charles was a powerful and effective preacher whose homiletic work and skill did much to establish and further the early Methodist cause. In this book this other side of Charles Wesley is brought clearly into focus through the publication, for the first time, of all of the known Charles Wesley sermon texts. In the four substantial introductory chapters a case is made for the inclusion of the 23 sermons here presented and there is discussion also of the significant text-critical problems that have been negotiated in the production of this volume. Other chapters present a summary of Charles's life and preaching career and seek to show by example how the sermons, no less than the hymns, are significant vehicles for the transmission of Charles's message. This book hence makes a plea for a reassessment of the place of Charles Wesley in English Church history and argues that he deserves to be recognised as more than just 'The Sweet Singer of Methodism'.
Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions
Author: Robert SouthPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368878638
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Robert South (1634-1716)
Author: Gerard ReedyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521401647
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Robert South (1634-1716) was one of the great Anglican writers and preachers of his age. A contemporary of Dryden and Locke, he faced the profound political and philosophical changes taking place at the beginning of the Enlightenment in England. Gerard Reedy's book makes a strong case for the importance of his sermons, their complexity, beauty and wit, and their place in the history of post-Restoration English literature. Discussing sermons of South that deal with his theory of politics, language, the sacrament and mystery, Reedy reintroduces us to a lively and seminal master of prose, politics and theology in the late Stuart era.
Forty-eight Sermons and Discourses on several subjects and occasions
Author: Robert SouthThe Horror Plays of the English Restoration
Author: Anne HermansonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317028538
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
A decade after the Restoration of Charles II, a disturbing group of tragedies, dubbed by modern critics the horror or the blood-and-torture villain tragedies, burst onto the London stage. Ten years later they were gone - absorbed into the partisan frenzy which enveloped the theatre at the height of the Exclusion Crisis. Despite burgeoning interest, until now there has been no full investigation into why these deeply unsettling plays were written when they were and why they so fascinated audiences for the period that they held the stage. The author’s contention is that the genre of horror gains its popularity at times of social dislocation. It reflects deep schisms in society, and English society was profoundly unsettled and in a (delayed) state of shock from years of social upheaval and civil conflict. Through recurrent images of monstrosity, madness, venereal disease, incest and atheism, Hermanson argues that the horror dramatists trope deep-seated and unresolved anxieties - engaging profoundly with contemporary discourse by abreacting the conspiratorial climate of suspicion and fear. Some go as far as to question unequivocally the moral and political value of monarchy, vilifying the office of kingship and pushing ideas of atheism further than in any drama produced since Seneca. This study marks the first comprehensive investigation of these macabre tragedies in which playwrights such as Nathaniel Lee, Thomas Shadwell, Elkanah Settle, Thomas Otway and the Earl of Rochester take their audience on an exploration of human iniquity, thrusting them into an examination of man’s relationship to God, power, justice and evil.
Author: Andrew Kippis