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Resurrecting the Funeral Sermon
Liturgy, 2006“Funerals with a Personal Touch” read the title of an article in the Chicago Tribune. 1 The piece described the growing trend to hire “funeral celebrants” to make a funeral more personal.
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Ambrose's Imperial Funeral Sermons
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 2007Ambrose's funeral sermons on the emperors Valentinian and Theodosius have been analysed as texts borrowing from classical rhetorical traditions, and as repositories of detail about contemporary politics. However, the crucial context for these texts was ecclesiastical; they were sermons, preached in church in services during which lessons were read from
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Samuel Hieron'S “Worldling”: A Funeral Sermon, 1618 and the Controversy over Eulogies
OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, 2012After the Reformation, English clergymen debated the efficacy of funeral eulogies. Some believed they flattered the deceased and might be seen as prayers for the dead. Because the bereaved wanted to hear about the goodness of their beloved, most preachers gave eulogies, some in a generalized form for Godly imitation, not expressing the deceased's ...
Bettie Anne, Doebler, Retha M, Warnicke
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English Dissenters’ Funeral Sermons from 1660-1700
2020Cette étude se concentre sur les décennies suivant la Restauration (c. 1660-1700), où les non-conformistes souffrent à la fois de persécutions et de divisions internes. Elle analyse l’utilisation, dans ce contexte, du sermon funèbre, un genre dont la flexibilité permet la poursuite d’objectifs multiples qui servent à forger l’identité collective non ...
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The Domestic “Fruite of Eves Transgression” In Stuart Funeral Sermons
Prose Studies, 2006Threnoikos, or the House of Mourning, a compendious and widely circulated 1640 anthology of funeral sermons, reveals just how English Protestantism generated its own newly domesticated saints in the seventeenth century. Through its formal and generic conventions, its adoption of housewifely analogies for eulogistic preaching, and its striking ...
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Piety, Poetry, and the Funeral Sermon: Reading Graveyard Poetry in the Eighteenth Century
English Studies, 2011Eighteenth-century “graveyard poetry”, as a literary category, has been a problematic one at best. Modern studies of graveyard poetry are restricted to the footnotes of larger traditions, afflicted by a combination of formal and aesthetic codes that fail to fully validate its generic and taxonomic differentiation.
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