Preaching the Christian Life and Faith
Communication of Religious Education in Late Antique Latin Sermons
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Beschreibung
How was religious education taught in one of the central institutions of emerging Christianity? The contributors to this volume examine late antique sermons from the Latin West, explore how biblical content and saints were addressed in them, and how questions of Christian ethics and faith were communicated.
In this volume, essays are brought together that map the preaching landscape in the late antique Latin West from the perspective of religious education. In Late Antiquity, sermons were the central institution through which religious education was imparted. Each contribution focuses on one preacher and addresses one of four key questions: What role did the Holy Scriptures play in preaching? How were hagiographic texts interpreted in the sermon? How were Christian ethics taught in sermons? And how did dogma enter the sermon? Reflections on current research into preaching and on the role of Augustine for late antique preachers round off the individual studies. Since preaching is highly dependent on its local and historical contexts, the volume collects a variety of perspectives that offering a nuanced picture of the genre of preaching that has shaped Christian communication from Late Antiquity to the present day.
Autor*in
Peter Gemeinhardt
Born 1970; 1990-96 studies of Protestant Theology at the Universities of Marburg and Göttingen; 2001 Dr. theol., University of Marburg; 2003 Ordination; 2006 Habilitation University of Jena; 2007 professor of Church History at University of Göttingen; 2021-23 Dean of the Faculty of Theology at Göttingen.
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