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Gender issues in contemporary sermons
… was to examine gender issues in contemporary sermons. My sample consists of sermons delivered on BBC Radio 4 as part of acts of worship broadcast during 1993-4 which were examined to analyse how language, gender and power intersect to produce these discourses. In order to contextualize this …
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Mark Hopkins and His Baccalaureate Sermons
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Four Sermons of Henry Smith: A Critical Edition
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'Sermons in stone': eleventh-century figural sculpture from Croatia
This thesis examines eleventh-century figural sculptures from Croatia by focusing on their iconography and potential symbolical significance. It consists of a detailed analysis of seventeen well-preserved carvings and an accompanying catalogue with six additional pieces, which are too damaged and …
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"Unspoken sermons": Christian preaching in British fiction, 1979-2004
… Yet, as this thesis will argue, fictional sermons are still successfully used by novelists. The thesis examines sermons in three genres, and representing three Christian traditions, the Roman Catholic, Anglican and Free Church. The genres discussed are chronicles, as represented by Antonia …
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Dante Praedicator: Sermons and Preaching Culture in the Commedia
… the premise that Dante takes influence from the sermons and preaching culture of his time in his construction of a voice of authority, this dissertation tracks the poet's use of sermonic material and rhetoric, as well as more explicit discussions on preaching through his entire corpus. Chapter …
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Protestant Nuns as Depictions of Piety in Lutheran Funeral Sermons
… praised unmarried female monastics in funeral sermons [<em>Leichenpredigten</em>]. Lutheran pastors wrote funeral sermons for both <em>Stiftsdamen</em> and married women, funeral sermons display similarities or differences between what virtues, characteristics, and displays of piety for women. …
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An edition and study of selected sermons of Robert Grosseteste
… offers an edition and study of a collection of sermons attributed to the theologian and bishop Robert Grosseteste (c. 1168-1253), preserved in a single manuscript, Durham Dean and Chapter Library MS A. III. 12. The starting point for my study is MS A. III. 12 itself. The first chapter summarises …
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Separable Prefixes in Cruciger's Adaptions of Luther's Sermons, 1530-1539
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The Experience of Listening to Sermons in Late Medieval England
Traditional scholarship on medieval sermons has approached them as delivered to the laity, rather than as experienced by them. In the well-trodden field of sermon studies, there has been an underlying assumption that the success or popularity of a sermon was chiefly determined by the rhetorical …
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Using multiple intelligences theory to develop an approach to children's sermons
… examines a new approach to children's sermons. It contends that a variety of sermon methods, not traditional oral and verbal methods, appeal to a diversity of children with a higher degree of fairness and effectiveness. Chapter 1 serves as the introduction for the entire study and …
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Style in Bossuet's 1662 Lenten Sermons: A Method of Rhetorical Analysis
… study offers close stylistic readings of six sermons by France's best known neoclassical orator, Jacques-Benigne Bossuet (1627--1704). Delivered during Lent before the court of Louis XIV, the sermons provide an especially rich case study for examining the argumentative potential of figures. …
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Style in rhetorical criticism: The case of Martin Luther's vernacular sermons
Serious attention to style of the discourse analyzed remains a neglected feature of the tradition of rhetorical criticism. A survey of the literature reveals a fundamental neglect of style in both the theory and practice of rhetorical criticism. Application of stylistic matters to discourse has …
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The role of metaphor in the sermons of Benjamin Keach, 1640-1704
… Benjamin Keach used metaphors in his published sermons. The first chapter provides a thorough introduction to the dissertation, including the research objective, methodology, and source materials. Chapter 2 concerns Keach's role as a preacher. In particular, the chapter assesses the formative …
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A study of the prose style of selected sermons of John Keble
… this thesis is to examine the prose style of two sermons of John Keble. The two sermons chosen for analysis are "The Duty of Hoping Against Hope," delivered by Keble in 1846 and Sermon L (Russian War), delivered in 1854. The method for analysis is taken from the essay, "A Method of Analyzing Prose …
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The doctrine of divine adoption in the sermons of Saint Peter Chrysologus
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Rhetoric, religion and politics in the St. Paul's Cross sermons, 1603-1625
This thesis investigates the sermons delivered at Paul's Cross, the outdoor pulpit at St. Paul's Cathedral, during the reign of James I. It examines the preachers' use of rhetoric to influence the religious and political attitudes of contemporaries by comparing theories of preaching, found in …
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Homiletic Theory and Practice in the Sermons of John Donne and Lancelot Andrewes
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