Preaching the inward light : theory and practice of early Quaker rhetoric /
Michael P. Graves.
- xi, 462 páginas ; 24 centímetros.
- Studies in rhetoric and religion 9 .
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 -- 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 -- Stephen Crisp and the bedrock of early Quakerism -- "This is my testimony unto you from the life of God" -- William Penn preaches an impromptu funeral sermon.
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