Graves, Michael P.. Preaching the inward light : early Quaker rhetoric

Folger bibliographic ID: 229908
Folger call number: BX7748.P75 G73 2009
Folger holdings ID: 276122

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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 -- 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

Extended title: Preaching the inward light : early Quaker rhetoric / Michael P. Graves

Quaker preaching Extemporaneous preaching Society of Friends Sermons, English

author: Graves, Michael P., 1943-