[PDF] Select Lectures And Sermons eBook

Author : Peter McCullough
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 11,62 MB
Release : 2005-11-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191513299

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This is the first annotated critical edition of works of Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626), a writer recognized by literary critics, historians, and theologians as one of the most important figures in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Peter McCullough, a leading expert on religious writing in the early modern period, presents fourteen complete sermons and lectures preached by Andrewes across the whole range of his adult career, from Cambridge in the 1580s to the court of James I and VI in the 1620s. Through a radical reassessment of Andrewes's life, influence, and surviving texts, the editor presents Andrewes as his contemporaries saw, heard, and read him, and as scholars are increasingly recognizing him: one of the most subtle, yet radical critics of mainstream Elizabethan Protestantism, and a literary artist of the highest order. The centuries-old influence of William Laud's authorized edition of Andrewes (1629) is here complicated and contextualized by the full use for the first time of the whole range of Andrewes's works printed before and after his lifetime, as well as manuscript sources. The edition also showcases the aesthetic brilliance of Andrewes's remarkable prose, and suggests new ways for scholars to carry forward the modern literary appreciation of Andrewes famously begun by T. S. Eliot. A full introductory essay sets study of Andrewes on a new footing by placing his works in the context of his life and career, surveying the history of responses to his writings, and summarizing the history of the transmission of his texts. The texts here are edited to high modern critical standards. The exhaustive commentary sets each selection in its historical context, documents Andrewes's myriad sources, glosses important and unfamiliar words and allusions, and translates his frequent quotations from the ancient Biblical languages.

Author : Edward Russell Bernard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 28,20 MB
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1316619982

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Originally published in 1929, this book presents a series of pieces on various aspects of Christian practice by Edward Russell Bernard. The text is divided into two parts: the first part contains twelve sermons and the second contains three lectures. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the writings of Bernard and biblical studies.