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Preaching the inward light : early Quaker rhetoric /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Graves, Michael P., 1943-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, [2009]
Series:Studies in rhetoric and religion ; 9.
Subjects:
Sermons, English > History and criticism.
Society of Friends > Sermons > History and criticism.
Extemporaneous preaching > History > 17th century.
Quaker preaching > History > 17th century.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cultural constraints on early Quaker preaching
  • Presuppositions of early Quaker preaching
  • The development of seventeenth-century Quaker impromptu preaching theory
  • Robert Barclay and the grounding of early Quaker homiletic theory
  • The flowering of early Quaker homiletic theory : Samuel Bownas' manual for itinerant impromptu preachers
  • Thematic characteristics of Quaker sermons, 1671-1700
  • Five key metaphors in early Quaker sermons, 1671-1700
  • Other salient characteristics of Quaker sermons, 1671-1700
  • George Fox faces the Yearly Meeting in 1674 : the challenge of legitimacy in a culture that values impromptu, inspired discourse
  • Stephen Crisp and the bedrock of early Quakerism
  • "This is my testimony unto you from the life of God" : the theorist tests his own advice
  • William Penn preaches an impromptu funeral sermon.