Table of Contents

I: Introductory Essays
1: William Gibson: The British Sermon 1689-1901: Quantities, Performance, and Culture
2: Keith A. Francis: Sermons: Themes and Developments
II: Sermons: Communities, Cultures and Communication
3: Jeffrey S. Chamberlain: Parish Preaching in the Long Eighteenth Century
4: Frances Knight: Parish Preaching in the Victorian Era: The Village Sermon
5: Martin Hewitt: Preaching from the platform
6: Michael Graves: The British Quaker Sermon, 1689-1901
7: Bob Tennant: The Sermons of the Eighteenth-Century Evangelicals
8: Geoffrey Scott: Sermons in British Catholicism to the Restoration of the Hierarchy
9: Ann Matheson: Preaching in the Churches of Scotland
10: Irene Whelan: The Sermon and Political Controversy in Ireland, 1800-1850
11: John Morgan-Guy: Sermons in Wales in the Established Church
12: D. Densil Morgan: Preaching in the Vernacular: the Welsh sermon, 1689-1901
13: Andrew Pink: Order and Uniformity, Decorum, and Taste: Sermons Preached at the Anniversary Meeting of the Three Choirs, 1720-1800
III: Occasional Sermons
14: Pasi Ihalainen: The Sermon, Court and Parliament 1689-1789
15: James J. Caudle: The Defence of Georgian Britain, the Anti-Jacobite Sermon 1715-1746
16: Warren Johnston: Preaching, National Salvation, Victories and Thanksgiving, 1689-1800
17: Grayson Ditchfield: Sermons in the Age of the American and French Revolutions
18: William Gibson: This Itching Ear d Age : Visitation Sermons and Charges in the Eighteenth Century
19: Colin Haydon: Consecration Sermons
20: Penny Pritchard: The Protestant Funeral Sermon in England, 1688-1800
21: John Wolffe: The Victorian Funeral Sermon
IV: Sermons, Controversies and the Development of Ideas
22: Bob Tennant: Hard Labour: Institutional Benevolence and the Development of National Education
23: Robert J. Surridge and Keith A. Francis: Sermons for End Times: Evangelicalism, Romanticism, and Apocalypse in Britain
24: Nigel Aston: Rationalism, the Enlightenment, and Sermons
25: Jeremy Morris: Preaching the Oxford Movement
26: Melissa Wilkinson: Sermons and the Catholic Restoration
27: Keith A. Francis: Paley to Darwin: Natural Theology versus Science in Victorian Sermons
28: Gerald Parsons: Preaching the Broad Church Gospel: The Natal Sermons of Bishop John William Colenso
V Sermons: Missions and Ideas of Empire
29: Robert G. Ingram: From Barbarism to Civility, from Darkness to Light : Preaching Empire as Sacred History
30: Rowan Strong: Eighteenth-Century Mission Sermons
31: Joanna Cruickshank: The Sermon in the British Colonies
32: Andrew Sneddon: Church of Ireland Missions to Roman Catholics c.1700-1800
33: Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen: Go ye therefore and teach all nations : Evangelical and Mission Sermons, the Imperial Stage
VI: Sermons and Literature
34: Kirstie Blair: The Poet-Preachers
35: Stephen Prickett: Tradition Preaching and the Gothic Revival
36: Linda Gill VII: Conclusion: The Sermon and the Victorian Novel
37: Keith A. Francis: Sermon Studies: Major Issues and Future Directions

About the Author

Keith Francis is a historian of religion in Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and is particularly interested in the development of the biological sciences and their impact on nineteenth-century Christianity. He is the Executive Secretary of the American Society of Church History and a visiting research fellow at Oxford Brookes University.
William Gibson is a historian of religion in Britain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, he has written widely on the Church of England in this period and is particularly interested in its role in politics and the emergence of an enlightenment culture. He is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford Brookes University and Director of the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History. He is co-editor of Wesley and Methodist Studies and reviews editor of Archives (the journal of the
British Records Association). In 2011 he was visiting research fellow at Yale University. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Association and of the Royal Society of Arts.

Reviews

It is a magisterial work in every sense. It is superbly presented with more than 30 contributors; it contains all you could possibly want to know about the sermon during the "golden age" of church going.
*Peter Watkins, the Reader*

Welcome to the expanding world of Sermon Studies. In this mighty have history, analysis and critical reflection upon the sermon as a distinctive, art form throughout two significant centuries of English history.
*William H. Willimon, Theology*

an outstanding work of accessible scholarship, richly annotated ... [Francis] and Gibson are to be congratulated: present and future students of the subject will turn to their handbook as the first port of call.
*Michael Wheeler, Church Times*

the contributors have succeeded in demonstrating how an apparently commonplace and ephemeral aspect of the social and religious culture of Britain offers important insights into how that culture understood its own purposes and place in the world.
*Charles W. A. Prior, Journal of Church and State*