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WENZEL, SIEGFRIED. "THE WORK CALLED CONGESTA AND FIFTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH THEOLOGY." Traditio 73 (2018): 291–319. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/tdo.2018.5.
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Congesta, written about the middle of the fifteenth century in England and only partially preserved, is a massive sermon commentary, originally in five volumes, covering the Sundays of the church year, some feast days and common sermons for saints, and two special occasions (“In Time of Persecution” and “For Religious”). Of the entire cycle only forty-six sermons are extant in two manuscripts (Oxford, Magdalen College MSS 96 and 212). The commentary deals at great length with the Epistle or Gospel lection of the respective Mass. Its anonymous author, probably an English Carthusian, excerpted long passages from over 130 named authors and anonymous works, including Petrus Berchorius, Saint Brigid of Sweden, and the Imitatio Christi. The sermons, which are basically moral postillation of the lections and show much concern with the qualities of a good pastor, can be seen as part of the reforming tendencies in the English church marked especially by Thomas Gascoigne. The article describes and discusses the sermon cycle, analyzes the sermon for 23 Trinity, and discusses the structure of the sermons and some of the authors of the later Middle Ages that are quoted or excerpted. An appendix lists the authors and anonymous works quoted in alphabetical order.
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Jennings, Margaret. "The “Sermons” of English Romance." Florilegium 13, no. 1 (January 1994): 121–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/flor.13.008.
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The influence of sermon content on mediaeval secular literature has long been acknowledged. Widening the trail blazed by Gerald Owst in 1933, Siegfried Wenzel has recently identified sermon material in the fabliaux, the drama, the epic, and, very extensively, in the mediaeval lyric.1 Evidence for the usage of sermon formats, however, is considerably harder to develop, although efforts to do so—both brilliant and bizarre—have certainly been attempted.2 Many of the difficulties arise because the homily style in preaching design that had been dominant until the twelth century and remained a viable option especially in the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries was too unique and personalized to the individual sermon giver to be reduced to a scheme. In addition, the more organized pattern of preaching, which today is called “scholastic,” “university-style,” or more correctly “thematic,” vied for prominence with the homily throughout most of the mediaeval period. Only in the fourteenth century, and probably only in England where manuals on thematic design and sermons thus organized flourished, can the effect of a prescribed preaching structure on non-religious writing be easily discerned. Such a discovery occurs when certain unusually-shaped passages in English metrical romance are measured against thematic formats.
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Kravchenko, N. O., and S. S. Bohuslavskyi. "TEMPORAL ORGANIZATION OF ORAL ENGLISH AND GERMAN RELIGIOUS SERMONS (THEOLINGUISTIC APPROACH)." Writings in Romance-Germanic Philology, no. 2(51) (December 19, 2023): 116–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.18524/2307-4604.2023.2(51).296825.
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The article is dedicated to exploring the temporal organization of texts in Anglican and Lutheran sermons, which are an integral part of worship in their respective churches. The study of homiletic and theolinguistic literature, along with an examination of the compositional features of the analysed sermons, has allowed for the identification of four compositional parts present in both types of sermons (theme manifestation, citation, interpretation, conclusion). Each part is characterized by relative semantic and structural autonomy, serving specific pragmatic purposes. The research material, consisting of oral English and German sermons, underwent perceptual, auditory, and instrumental analysis. A comprehensive auditory and instrumental analysis of the temporal characteristics of the preachers’ speech allows the conclusion that there is unity not only in the pragmatic directives of preachers in the two most widespread Protestant traditions but also in the prosodic structure of oral sermons. Among the integral temporal parameters at the perceptual level, pauses and contrasting tempo play a leading role in creating the influential effect of sermons. Regarding integral objective temporal parameters, common patterns in the temporal organization of the introductory and main parts of the text are identified. Differentiating features include significant differences between Anglican and Lutheran sermons in the concluding part. Lutheran sermons demonstrate relatively stable use of a normal tempo with a tendency toward slowing down, while Anglican sermons exhibit contrasting use of both slowed and accelerated tempo, creating a “broken” rhythm of articulation that enhances the influential effect of this part of the sermon. Based on the identified integral temporal means involved in the construction of the analysed texts, it can be stated that Anglican and Lutheran sermons belong to the same type of homiletic discourse.
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Mahdi, Athraa' Ammar, and Mahmood A. Dawood. "Directive Speech Acts in Muslim Eid and Christian Easter Sermons." Al-Adab Journal 2, no. 141 (June 15, 2022): 27–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.31973/aj.v2i141.3712.
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The utterances produced by people have speech acts, especially in the English teaching learning process. One of them is directive speech acts. The main aim of the study is to ascertain contrastively, in English and Arabic, how directive speech acts are represented in religious discourse and what the underlying syntactic structure. For the purpose of the investigation, the directive speech acts of two sermons, one in English and another in Arabic, were extracted and analyzed. A classification taxonomy, was created in order to categorize the different types of directive speech acts and determine their level of (in) directness depending on Bach and Harnish's types of the directive speech acts (1979), The results show that that directive speech acts have the highest occurrences of frequency in Arabic sermon than that in English sermon, since that Islamic sermons belong to the teachings of the Islamic religion which have to be applied the guidelines literally and without ambiguity. Also, Both Arabic and English selected sermons have the highest rate in the form of directness over indirectness in directive speech acts as the speaker wants to send his/her utterances and expressions clearly and without any confusion.
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Hill II, Bracy. "Apocalyptic Lollards?: The Conservative Use of The Book of Daniel in the English Wycliffite Sermons." Church History and Religious Culture 90, no. 1 (2010): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187124110x506518.
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AbstractToo frequently the biblical hermeneutics of the Lollards have been oversimplified and described as “sola scriptura” or “literal” for the purpose of comparison. Limited attention has been given to the hermeneutic of Scripture particularly that of the Old Testament, present in the Wycliffite homiletic tradition as espoused in the Middle English Wycliffite festial. Building on the work of Kantik Ghosh and Curtis V. Bostick, this study asserts that the Middle English Wycliffite sermons' focus upon the Old Testament prophetic literature as a source of figures fulfilled in the New Testament, the reluctance of the politically conservative Wycliffite movement to embrace a radical apocalyptic vision, and the overriding concern of Lollard hermeneuts to acquire certitude resulted in the limited use of the book of Daniel in Wycliffite sermonic literature. When compared to contemporary sermon cycles and later uses of Daniel by more radical English groups, it becomes obvious that the Wycliffite sermons did not utilize a radical critique of empire or maintain a radical apocalyptic vision that might have found greater use for Daniel.
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Alkhawaldeh, Asim Ayed. "Deixis in English Islamic Friday sermons: A pragma-discourse analysis." Studies in English Language and Education 9, no. 1 (January 17, 2022): 418–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.24815/siele.v9i1.21415.
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Although deixis has received increasingly academic attention in linguistic research, its use in sermons, particularly in the Islamic context, has been largely underexplored. Therefore, this paper examined deixis in Islamic Friday sermons from the perspective of pragmatics and discourse analysis. Drawing on Levinson’s Framework, it aimed at analyzing three main types of deixis (personal, temporal, and spatial), focusing on their forms, features, functions, and frequency. The data were a corpus of 70 sermons compiled by the researcher from various online websites. The study employed qualitative and quantitative methods to meet the purpose of the study. The findings revealed that these three deictic types were relatively common in the language of the respective corpus with the personal type being predominant, deictically pointing to different referents whose interpretation was sensitive to the context in which they occurred. As an affectively powerful tool in the corpus, the preachers utilized deixis to serve a wide variety of functions on the discourse and pragmatic levels. In the corpus, deictic expressions worked as a discourse strategy to persuade the listeners by drawing their attention and engaging them in the message of the sermon and to signal and organize the flow of information in the ongoing discourse. They also served to enhance togetherness, intimacy, and politeness between the preachers and their audience. This study is hoped to present a good basis for further linguistic investigation of deixis in other languages and religions to illuminate how deictics work in sermonic discourse.
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Pisani, Jana, Pamela Gradon, and Anne Hudson. "English Wycliffite Sermons." Sixteenth Century Journal 28, no. 3 (1997): 985. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2543078.
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Galloway, Andrew. "A Fifteenth-Century Confession Sermon on “Unkyndeness” (CUL MS Gg 6.26) and Its Literary Parallels and Parodies." Traditio 49 (1994): 259–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0362152900013052.
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The later Middle Ages was the high moment of the popular, vernacular sermon, yet relatively few examples of extraliturgical sermons can be recovered from the written evidence. Latin collections of sermon cycles—those preached in the context of the mass liturgy and saints' days—were produced in large quantities in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, functioning more or less directly as exemplars for the actual sermons that would then be preached in the local vernaculars of western Europe. In England, such Latin sermon collections of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries often include some vernacular materials, especially lyrics, and many treatises are extant that provide priests with the materials to make sermons on a wide range of topics and for an indefinite number of occasions. Of the relatively few English sermons and sermon collections extant from the period, however, by far the greatest number are, like the Latin cycles, those keyed to the cycle of Sunday texts and to saints' days, whose very formality militates against a sense of them as representative of the most common forms and themes of vernacular sermons, particularly those earnestly preached on the occasions like that which Chaucer satirically describes in theSummoner's Tale, when “ther wente a lymytour aboute / To preche, and eek to begge, it is no doubte” (3.1711–1712). With so few examples of non-liturgical sermons extant, our sense both of the reality and of the satire is incomplete.
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Reeves, Andrew. "English Secular Clergy in the Early Dominican Schools: Evidence from Three Manuscripts." Church History and Religious Culture 92, no. 1 (2012): 35–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187124112x621257.
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AbstractAs part of their mission to preach faith and morals, the medieval Dominicans often served as allies of parochial clergy and the episcopate. Scholars such as M. Michèle Mulchahey have shown that on the Continent, the Order of Preachers often helped to educate parish priests. We have evidence that thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Dominicans were allowing parochial clergy to attend their schools in England as well. Much of this evidence is codicological. Two English codices of William Peraldus's sermons provide evidence of a provenance relating to a parish church: London Gray's Inn 20, a collection of his sermons on the Gospels, was owned by a parish priest, and Cambridge Peterhouse 211, a manuscript of his sermons on the Epistles, contains an act issued by the rector of a parish church. Another manuscript of Peraldus's sermons contains synodal statutes. As the Order of Preachers was outside of the diocesan chain of command, these statutes point to the use of these sermons by those who were subject to the episcopate. Since the Dominicans were normally forbidden from sharing their model sermon literature with secular clergy, these codices suggest a program on the part of the English province of the Order of Preachers to make sure that diocesan clergy could attend Dominican schools in order to gain the skills necessary to preach the basic doctrines and morals of the Christian faith to England's laity.
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Wabuda, Susan, Pamela Gradon, and Anne Hudson. "English Wycliffite Sermons IV." Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies 30, no. 2 (1998): 266. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4053532.
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Carlson, Eric Josef. "Confession and Absolution in Caroline Cambridge: the 1637 Crisis in Context." Studies in Church History 40 (2004): 180–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0424208400002862.
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In June 1637, Anthony Sparrow and Sylvester Adams, two Cambridge scholars, preached in Great St. Mary’s Church on the subject of confessing sins. Their sermons caused such a scandal that a deeply divided vice-chancellor’s court had to act. These sermons have not gone unnoticed by historians, but they have not been contextualized in a way that makes complete sense both of the sermons and of their reception. Sparrow’s sermon, published shortly after it was delivered, is the better-known of the two, but not the more radical. Although no complete text of Adams’s sermon survives, there are manuscript sources that make it possible to reconstruct the gist of it and to prove that it made novel claims concerning the necessity of confession for salvation. Moreover, in defending Adams his supporters challenged the sources of doctrinal authority in the English Church in unprecedented ways.
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Mahdi, Athraa' Ammar, and Mahmood A. Dawood. "Power and Solidarity in Muslim Eid and Christian Easter Sermons." Al-Adab Journal 3, no. 142 (September 15, 2022): 17–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.31973/aj.v3i142.3843.
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The purpose of the present study is to demonstrate that sermon as a form of religious discourse, and that study is deals with Socio-linguistic angle. The problem is raised in this study, whether the most common lexical linguistic expressions of power and solidarity, presented by Brown and Gilman (1960), are existed in both languages (Arabic and English) of selected sermons, with specifying their rates of frequency occurrences.
The current study aims at specifying the widely used of lexical linguistic expressions which indicated the power and the solidarity in these selected sermons [Easter Hope Sermon and بشائر الامة وامالها (Omens and hopes of the nation)].
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1- Every language has particular language markers of lexical expressions to reflect power and solidarity. The power of lexical linguistic expressions is the most frequency of occurrences in Arabic selected sermon, while the Solidarity of the lexical linguistic expressions is the most frequency of occurrences in English selected sermon.
2- The lexical linguistic expressions are used to maximize or minimize the distance between the addresser and the addressee.
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Kravchenko, N. O., and S. S. Bohuslavskyi. "MELODY OF AN ORAL RELIGIOUS SERMON." Writings in Romance-Germanic Philology, no. 1(50) (October 13, 2023): 137–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.18524/2307-4604.2023.1(50).285556.
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The article is devoted to the study of the melodic organization of the texts of Anglican and Lutheran sermons, which are an integral part of services in the respective churches. Examining the compositional features of the texts of the researched sermons made it possible to identify four compositional parts that are necessarily present in both types of sermons (topic manifestation, citation, interpretation, conclusion), each of which is characterized by relative semantic and structural independence and pursues a specific pragmatic task. The research material, consisting of oral English and German sermons, was subjected to perceptual, auditory and instrumental analysis. A complex auditory and instrumental analysis of the melodic characteristics of preachers’ speech allows us to conclude that there is unity not only in the pragmatic tasks of preachers in the two most common Protestant trends, but also in the prosodic features of the texts of oral sermons. Integral melodic parameters include the use of emphatic phrasal stress on informative and/or emotionally significant parts of phrases in supraphrasal units, the distribution of maximums of the fundamental frequency over the compositional parts of the text, the width of the frequency range of phrases, which is achieved not only at the expense of high indicators of maxima fundamental frequency in sermon phrases, but also due to lowering the lower limit of fundamental frequency values. Distinctive features include the use of different pitch levels in peculiar parts of the text: in the initial part of the Anglican sermon, there is a predominance of low pitch level, while in the Lutheran sermon, the low voice level is the most used in the final part of the sermon. On the basis of the identified integral prosodic means involved in the organisation of the analysed texts, it is possible to state that Anglican and Lutheran sermons belong to the same type of preaching discourse.
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MYERS, SARA. "Innovation in a conservative region: the Kentish Sermons genitive system." English Language and Linguistics 15, no. 3 (October 4, 2011): 417–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1360674311000116.
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The early Middle English Kentish Sermons shows a genitive system which is far advanced towards that of Modern English, an unexpected feature for a text from the conservative region of Kent. In this article I describe this genitive system, and examine how it developed. As the text is a translation from French, the question of French influence is central. Following brief descriptions of the sociolinguistic situation in England at the time (section 2) and of the Old English and Old French genitive systems (section 3), in section 4 I describe in detail the genitive system of the Kentish Sermons: genitive forms and functions, as well as the factors which affected their use. In section 5 I compare Kentish Sermon genitive phrases to corresponding phrases in the French original. There is evidence that a particular genitive function was strongly influenced by French models, but the system as a whole has its origins in the transition from Old to Middle English.
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Wenzel, Siegfried. "A Sermon in Praise of Philosophy." Traditio 50 (1995): 249–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0362152900013234.
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Worcester Cathedral MS F.10 forms a random collection of Latin, English, and macaronic sermons which were gathered and copied by a fairly large number of scribes in the middle of the fifteenth century. These sermons, most of them anonymous, are for a variety of occasions and audiences and have been entered in no particular liturgical order, even if, as the presence of several sets of quire numbers indicates, the individual quires were reordered several times in the medieval period. The collection contains a number of pieces that were evidently preached to a university audience, as is shown by their addressing “magistri” and by internal references to a university milieu. Their locale was presumably Oxford. Besides such general university sermons, the collection also includes two that are labeled “Introitus Sententiarum” and three other pieces that agree with these in form — the scholastic sermon structure — and content — praise of theology or holy Scripture and Peter Lombard. These five pieces are introitus, academic speeches or sermons which, according to university statutes, bachelors as well as masters (or doctors) of theology were required to deliver as they began their courses on the Bible or on Peter Lombard's Sentences. In addition, the manuscript contains an item that is very similar to the introitus sermons in that it follows the scholastic sermon structure and praises its subject. The latter, however, is not theology but philosophy, and the thema on which the piece is based is not a biblical text but a quotation from Aristotle. A sermon on a secular text itself is a rarity in medieval sermon literature, certainly from England; and appearing as it does in a sermon collection, the piece seems to be a rarissima avis stuck in the wrong flock.
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Scales, Andrew Thompson. "Justice and Equity: Calvin’s 1550 Sermon on Micah 2:1." International Journal of Homiletics 3, no. 1 (September 7, 2018): 16–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.21827/ijh.2018.39449.
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This paper examines a new English translation of John Calvin’s sermon on Micah 2:1 by the author, and it explores the sermon’s themes of justice and equity within Calvin’s historical context of Geneva in 1550. An exploration of homiletical influences on the sermon includes consideration of Calvin’s development of “plain sense” preaching. “Plain sense” preaching in Calvin’s writing denotes a rhetorical and exegetical style that draws upon his careful study of John Chrysostom’s sermons, and his attempt in his French-language 1541 Institutes to relate covenant theology to preaching of Old Testament texts. The judgments of the prophet Micah demand the same repentance from ancient Israel, sixteenth-century Geneva, and even contemporary hearers. The paper concludes with reflection on how Calvin’s “plain sense” preaching speaks to matters of justice with respect to mistreatment of immigrants and refugees in a contemporary North American context.
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Wenzel, Siegfried. "Lexical Doublets (Binomials) in Sermons from Late Medieval England." Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 123, no. 1 (May 30, 2022): 157–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.51814/nm.103427.
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The article examines the use of synonymous binomials in sermons produced in England in the fifteenth century. It discusses sermons in English, Latin, and macaronic. English and macaronic sermons use such binomials for rhetorical ornamentation; Latin ones do so too, though to a lesser extent.
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Nofal, Mohammed Y. "“I’m Praising God in the Language that He Loves”: Language Use in Religious Discourse." International Journal of Arabic-English Studies 23, no. 2 (June 20, 2023): 19–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.33806/ijaes.v23i2.451.
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Religion has been a key factor in the linguistic inquiry. Due to its significance in social life, it came to be in an intertwined relationship with language. Much of linguistic research has focused on this relationship in institutionalized settings such as schools, mosques and churches. Yet, the study of the interaction between language use and religion in less or non-institutional settings has not attracted much attention. This study responds to this need by exploring the use of Arabic within an English-language Friday sermon to address a multilingual religious community at an on-campus Muslim prayer site in New Zealand. Drawing upon data from semi-structured interviews with 10 volunteer sermon presenters, the study identifies various motivations and functions of using Arabic in the Friday sermons from the sermon presenters’ perspectives. The overall conclusion is that Arabic language use in the Friday sermons goes beyond the communicative aspect of language.
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Blamires, Alcuin, and Anne Hudson. "English Wycliffite Sermons. Vol. III." Modern Language Review 87, no. 4 (October 1992): 929. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3731445.
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Hanna, Ralph. "English Wycliffite Sermons. Anne Hudson." Speculum 60, no. 2 (April 1985): 416–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2846496.
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Miletova, Ekaterina V. "Internet preaching as a new format of religious communication." Current Issues in Philology and Pedagogical Linguistics, no. 2 (June 25, 2024): 82–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.29025/2079-6021-2024-2-82-93.
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The article is devoted to the analysis of English-language Internet sermons presented in video format in the digital environment. According to the author, a video sermon is an innovative form of religious communication; its prevalence is determined both by the information technology development and by the possibility of prompt and large-scale broadcast and popularization of religious teaching ideas. The research material is sermons posted on the Internet (the total sample size is 500 video sermons). The article emphasizes the ambiguous nature of online preaching, highlighting its positive and negative aspects. The advantages of online preaching include a wide range of target audiences, focus on educating young people and interacting with disabled people. In turn, among the negative manifestations of online preaching are lack of motivation among the addressee, the emergence of conflict situations in matters of religion and the emergence of its radical forms, movements, sects, changes in the social status of the clergyman (preacher). As differential features of online sermons, we identify: 1) non-canonical nature and lack of church recognition; 2) the dependence of the success of the sermon on both the personal and acting characteristics of the preacher, his charisma; 3) a change in the image of the clergyman and his identification with a mere mortal in the minds of believers. Particular attention is paid to describing the linguistic features of online sermons. According to the analysis of the practical material, online sermons in video format are characterized by the use of generalizing appeals, emotional and evaluative vocabulary, metaphors, and modal verbs. As for the content and structure of video sermons, the author notes the presence of allusions to precedent religious texts, stories, anecdotes, etc., entertaining the addressee.
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Doebler, Bettie Anne, and Retha M. Warnicke. "Sex Discrimination after Death: A Seventeenth-Century English Study." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 17, no. 4 (December 1987): 309–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/p7wc-39mt-xf8m-eqf9.
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Funeral sermons published in England during a three-decade period (1601–1630) were examined for possible sex bias. Because London dominated the publishing business, all but four, regardless of where they were preached, were issued in that city. A clear pattern of male preference was found. A lower number of funeral sermons for women was published. Interestingly, the number of times these sermons were reprinted or reissued did not strongly reinforce this pattern of discrimination. In the text of the sermons, laudatory and idealized comments about the deceased reflected and helped to perpetuate the sex differences in society.
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LEE, JONATHAN RHODES. "MUSIC, MORALITY AND SYMPATHY IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH SERMON." Eighteenth Century Music 17, no. 1 (February 12, 2020): 9–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1478570619000435.
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ABSTRACTWhile the furrows of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century religious writing on music have been deeply ploughed, eighteenth-century English sermons about music have received relatively slight scholarly attention. This article demonstrates that the ideas of sympathy and sensibility characteristic of so much eighteenth-century thought are vital to understanding these sermons. There is an evolution in this literature of the notion of sympathy and its link to musical morality, a development in the attitude towards music among clergy, with this art of sympathetic vibrations receiving ever higher approbation during the century's middle decades. By the time that Adam Smith was articulating his Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) and Handel's oratorios stood as a fixture of English musical life, religious thinkers had cast off old concerns about music's sensuality. They came to embrace a philosophy that accepted music as moral simply because it made humankind feel, and in turn accepted feeling as the root of all sociable experience. This understanding places the music sermon of the eighteenth century within the context of some of the most discussed philosophical, social, literary, musical and moral-aesthetic concepts of the time.
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Sorokina, Evgenia Evgen'evna. "Intertextuality in English-language Catholic sermons." Litera, no. 9 (September 2022): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8698.2022.9.38671.
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The relevance of this study is due to the small study of the issue of intertextuality in English-speaking Catholic preaching in modern Russian science. The purpose of this article is to study various types of intertextuality and the linguistic techniques by which they are expressed in modern English-speaking Catholic preaching by the example of the preaching addresses of Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster (Diocese of Westminster, London, UK). The object of the study is an English—language Catholic sermon, the subject is intertextuality and its varieties (referential, prototypical (textotypological)), manifested in the above text. In writing this work, we were guided by such methods of scientific research as analytical and descriptive. The scientific novelty lies in the consideration of the phenomenon of intertextuality, one of the manifestations of which is the functional-semantic category of appeal. The conducted research indicates that in the Catholic sermon there are elements of both RI and PI, where RI is represented by various quotations, allusions and retelling of the author's text, and PI is a mention of God in all three Persons, respectful euphemisms for His Name and the Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary, mentioning the names of saints, biblical heroes, characteristic religious vocabulary, the use of "we-constructions" to create an image of the unity of the preacher with the audience, as well as appellative constructions represented by the verbs of ought, influence, as well as the imperative mood of the verb and the simple present tense of the verb with a hint of ought.
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KRAVCHENKO, Nina, Elena KARPENKO, Anna MATIIENKO-SILNYTSKA, and Olga VASYLIEVA. "Category of Sacredness in the Discourse of the English Sermon (Theolinguistic Approach)." WISDOM 18, no. 2 (June 25, 2021): 18–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v18i2.480.
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The present paper deals with the investigation of the category of sacredness of the English religious preaching discourse, considered from the standpoint of theolinguistics. It has been proved that being a secondary form of sacred texts the text of the sermon demonstrates frequent use of sacral vocabulary of different groups: narrow conceptual and terminological vocabulary, which has religious sense and meanings, borrowings from sacred texts (the so-called biblicalisms), and vocabulary of everyday communication, which in the context of preaching becomes religious, and is included in the semantic field of religion on this basis. Different perception of the nature and ways to realize the sermon in the Anglican and Neo-Protestant churches is manifested in the peculiarities of the attitude towards the sacrality of the Word. The process of desacralization of the sermon, recorded in the Neo-Protestant sermons, occurs due to the contrasting use of sacred vocabulary in a stylistically reduced context, on the one hand, and the use of profane vocabulary to nominate sacred phenomena, on the other.
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Alford, John A. "English Wycliffite Sermons, Vol. 1. Anne Hudson." Modern Philology 84, no. 1 (August 1986): 67–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/391518.
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Lumi, Johnli Hervie. "THE RENDITIONS PRODUCED BY THE INTERPRETERS IN SERMON INTERPRETING AT ROCK CHURCH DENPASAR BALI." Linguistika: Buletin Ilmiah Program Magister Linguistik Universitas Udayana 26, no. 1 (September 30, 2019): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.24843/ling.2019.v26.i01.p09.
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This paper explores the renditions produced by the interpreters in sermon interpreting at ROCK Church Denpasar Bali. It aims at finding out and investigating the categories and the motives of the renditions produced by the interpreters in the setting under investigated. The method adopted for this study is a descriptive qualitative approach. The data of this study is based on six transcribed audio-video recordings of interpreter-mediated sermons on Sunday services, involving six visiting preachers, congregation, and three interpreters. The sermons are preached in English and interpreted short-consecutively into Indonesian. The data were collected through observation method which was applied at once with the implementation of note-taking technique, and were analyzed using the qualitative method and comparative technique. As a theoretical framework, the taxonomy of renditions proposed by Wadensjö (1998) has been utilized. The result of the study shows that there were eight categories of rendition produced by the interpreters in sermon interpreting on Sunday services at ROCK church Denpasar Bali. The categories of rendition produced by the interpreters were close renditions, expanded renditions, reduced renditions, substituted renditions, summarized renditions, two-part renditions, non-renditions, and zero renditions.
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Saddhono, Kundharu, and Ani Rakhmawati. "The Discourse of Friday Sermon in Indonesia: A Socio-Cultural Aspects and Language Function Studies." Jurnal Komunikasi Islam 8, no. 2 (December 2, 2018): 217. http://dx.doi.org/10.15642/jki.2018.8.2.213-240.
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This research attempted to explain the Friday sermon by analyzing the structure of its discourse, the selection and composing of its topics, the functions of its codes and code-switching, the function of its speech acts, and the characterristics of its language and specific terms. By using descriptive and qualitative, this study found that the Friday sermon contained oral discourse which has a regular and specific structure. The strategies of the composition of the topics consisted of quotation, storytelling, usage of popular expressions. Whilst the forms of the codes and code-switching involve Arabic, Indonesian, local languages [Javanese], and English languages. In addition, the utterances of the sermon contain all forms of speech acts and various terms appeared in the sermons indicating that the Friday sermon functions as a register or usage of language in a particular field.
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Saddhono, Kundharu, and Ani Rakhmawati. "The Discourse of Friday Sermon in Indonesia: A Socio-Cultural Aspects and Language Function Studies." Jurnal Komunikasi Islam 8, no. 2 (December 2, 2018): 217–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.15642/jki.2018.8.2.217-238.
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This research attempted to explain the Friday sermon by analyzing the structure of its discourse, the selection and composing of its topics, the functions of its codes and code-switching, the function of its speech acts, and the characteristics of its language and specific terms. By using descriptive and qualitative, this study found that the Friday sermon contained oral discourse which has a regular and specific structure. The strategies of the composition of the topics consisted of quotation, storytelling, usage of popular expressions. Whilst the forms of the codes and code-switching involve Arabic, Indonesian, local languages [Javanese], and English languages. In addition, the utterances of the sermon contain all forms of speech acts and various terms appeared in the sermons indicating that the Friday sermon functions as a register or usage of language in a particular field.
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Evans, Catherine R. "Locating Devotion: Sermon Title Pages and the Early Modern Book Market, 1620–1642." Library 24, no. 1 (March 1, 2023): 3–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/library/fpad001.
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Abstract This article considers the place that sermons held in the early modern book market through a quantitative survey of the title pages of sermon-books published in English between 1620 and 1642. Working from an EEBO dataset, this research examines four features of title pages: (a) dating referents, (b) location referents, (c) references to the living or status of the preacher, and (d) whether the books were collections. This research demonstrates that the vast majority of sermon-books declared their place of preaching (74%) and the occasion of their preaching (67%). This article explores how the book-buying public’s interest in novelty and the initial performance of the sermon shaped the use of paratextual material. It proposes that the printed sermon makes the page into a privately accessible space to connect with the publicly experienced communal time of the performed sermon, counteracting the desacralizing effect of the press.
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Carlson, Eric Josef. "English Funeral Sermons as Sources: The Example of Female Piety in Pre-1640 Sermons." Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies 32, no. 4 (2000): 567. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4053628.
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Carlson, Eric Josef. "English Funeral Sermons as Sources: The Example of Female Piety in Pre-1640 Sermons." Albion 32, no. 4 (2000): 567–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0095139000065649.
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Olson Campbell, Heidi. "Noli Me Tangere." Church History and Religious Culture 104, no. 1 (March 26, 2024): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18712428-bja10061.
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Abstract Sixteenth-century theologians in their efforts to reform English religion sought to divest religion not only of its extrabiblical female saints but also its biblical female saints of their legends and their passionate expressions of sorrow. Reformers focused on deconstructing the popular weeping composite Mary Magdalene, yet their efforts were only partially successful. Thomas Walkington’s 1620 sermon, Rabboni, reveals that Protestant preachers were willing to diverge from the biblical account and use their imagination in sermons to appeal to their audience’s emotions. Rabboni demonstrates continued knowledge and leakage of Pre-Reformation extrabiblical legends into Protestant thought. The location of the sermon and the reception history of Pseudo-Origen’s De Maria Magdalena suggest why the medieval image of Mary Magdalene proved so indestructible.
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Anne w. Kamau, Waraga, and Dr Margret Njoki Mwihia. "REDUCTION INTERPRETATION STRATEGIES ON CHURCH SERMONS: A STUDY OF KISWAHILI TO ENGLISH INTERPRETATION IN EVANGELICAL CHURCHES IN GATANGA SUBCOUNTY." International Journal of Education Humanities and Social Science 06, no. 02 (2023): 157–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.54922/ijehss.2023.0507.
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This paper examined reduction interpretation strategies on church sermons. Currently, there is an increase need for interpretation in most of the Kenyan churches due to the increase in a number of evangelistic churches in the country. This study examined sermons preached in English and consecutively interpreted to Kiswahili. The study focused on the effect of reduction interpretation on the intended meaning. The study applied interpretive theory of Interpretation as propounded by Marianne (2003). The study was anchored on a descriptive research design where both interviews and questionnaires were used to collect data. Purposive sampling was used to select five churches that used interpreting, in which the sermons were preached in English and interpreted to Kiswahili. The study used a descriptive research design in collecting data from the respondents. The target population was drawn from each of the eight evangelical churches in Gatanga Sub County which consisted of pastors, interpreters and the audience. The study findings revealed that reduction interpretation strategy affect the interpretation of church sermons in Evangelical Churches. The study concludes that Reduction strategies did not meet the goal of interpreting church sermons instead they had a negative impact on the interpreted message. This study recommends that church interpreters should be brought to light to the works of other experienced interpreters as this will add to their knowledge
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Schvéd, Brigitta. "Discourse on Peace and Balance of Power in Early Eighteenth-Century English Political Sermons." Specimina Nova Pars Prima Sectio Medaevalis 12, no. 1 (November 25, 2023): 159–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.15170/spmnnv.2023.12.10.
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In the public debate on the English involvement in the War of the Spanish Succession, and over time, on the peace that would end the prolonged war, sermons occupy a special place among the various political mediums of the time. After briefly reviewing the main features of the political controversy, the present study specifically examines two political sermons by the English churchman John Adams (1662–1720), in which the discourse on balance of power is organically present, reinforcing the theme of the need for a “good peace”. In Adams’ sermons, published in 1709 and 1711, respectively, the notion of Christian joy and prosperity as well as the glad tidings of the securing of Protestant succession in the form of a future peace were given explicit emphasis alongside the discourse on balance of power. Both sermons were delivered on thanksgiving days, therefore – while supporting the anti-war, pro-peace Tory propaganda – they have a strong emphasis on predictions of the positive prospects for Christian spirituality. The paper focuses on the conceptual analysis of these delightful promises, showing how Adams considered the effects of a prospective peace on the Christian religion in general as well as on the future of the balance of power both at home and in Europe.
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Álvarez Recio, Leticia. "The Politicization of the Pulpit in Seventeenth-century England: Thanksgiving Sermons after the Duke of Monmouth’s Rebellion." Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies 40 (December 31, 2009): 13–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20099657.
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In the early 1530s, the sermon was a basic tool to teach the new Anglican doctrine to people of all social ranks. Later in the century, it would be further employed by moderate and radical ministers to debate ecclesiastical, domestic and foreign policies. This trend continued well into the seventeenth century, when sermons increasingly influenced English public opinion and encouraged actions for and against the status quo.
The present paper studies how this genre participated in contemporary political controversies. The date selected is 26 July 1685, the day officially appointed for a public thanksgiving for James II’s victory over the Duke of Monmouth’s insurrection. The sermons considered support the doctrine of the divine right of kings endorsed by James, and attempt to discredit each of the arguments for civil disobedience employed by the rebels. Nevertheless, some degree of anxiety permeates these texts, since they attempt to justify the need to obey a legitimate monarch, who, despite being the head of the Anglican Church, openly practised the Catholic faith.
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Barr, Beth Allison. "“he is bothyn modyr, broþyr, & syster vn-to me”." Church History and Religious Culture 94, no. 3 (2014): 297–315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18712428-09403001.
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Examining recent claims that the early modern Bible served as an empowering force for women, this article draws evidence from English sermons designed for quotidinal lay instruction—such as the late medieval sermons of Festial, the sixteenth-century Tudor Homilies, and the seventeenth-century sermons of William Gouge and Benjamin Keach. As didactic religious texts written and delivered by men but also heard and read by women, sermons reveal how preachers rhetorically shaped the contours of women’s agency. Late medieval sermons include women specifically in scripture and authorize women through biblical role models as actively participating within the church. Conversely, early modern sermons were less likely to add women into scripture and more likely to use scripture to limit women by their domestic identities. Thus, through their approaches to biblical texts, medieval preachers present women as more visible and active agents whereas early modern preachers present women as less visible and more limited in their roles—thereby presenting a more complex story of how the Bible affected women across the Reformation.
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Khachula, Annet Aromo, Lucy Mandillah, and Bernard Angatia Mudogo. "Levels of Equivalence in Interpreter-mediated Sermons from English into Luhya Varieties." International Journal of English Language Studies 3, no. 5 (May 28, 2021): 26–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijels.2021.3.5.4.
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Languages have different concepts for conveying meanings; hence there is a problem in finding equivalents between the source language (SL) and the target language (TL) in the process of interpreting. The transfer of meaning is identified as one of the basic problems in interpreting due to the absence of equivalence between two languages. This paper identifies levels of equivalence in the interpretation of selected sermons from English into Luhya varieties. Data was collected through key-informant interviews of interpreters, Focus Group Discussions by the congregants, and the researcher’s non-participant observation during church services. An audio recorder was used to collect the corpus for analysis which was later transcribed and translated for analysis. Relevance Theory by Sperber and Wilson (1986) provided the background for the discussion of the data. The findings revealed the following levels of equivalence in the interpretation of English sermons into Luhya varieties; one to many, one to part-of-one and nil equivalence. Further, it was also revealed that interpreters need to identify these three levels of equivalence in interpreting English sermons into Luhya varieties to determine the appropriate measures to counteract the situation.
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Upchurch, Robert K. "An Anglo-Saxon bishop, his book and two battles: Leofric of Exeter and liturgical performance as pastoral care." Anglo-Saxon England 48 (December 2019): 209–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0263675121000041.
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AbstractCambridge, Corpus Christi College 190 (CCCC 190) contains an Ash Wednesday entry into public penance and a Maundy Thursday reconciliation of penitents as well as two Old English sermons translated from them. The sermons were added to the manuscript at Exeter during Bishop Leofric’s tenure (1050–72), and the rites were recopied into one of his pontificals, London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. vii, where the Ash Wednesday service was also revised into a unique, previously unrecognized, standalone rite. This article examines the manuscript evidence for Leofric’s interest in these unique rites and sermons, and suggests that they might have been useful to him in the wake of the Norman Conquest. Because of their uniqueness and proposed historical relevance to post-Conquest Exeter, the article concludes with editions of the rites from Vitellius A. vii and the sermons from CCCC 190, which are printed together for the first time.
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McGovern, Jonathan. "Publicity and Persuasion in Early Modern England: The Babington Plot and its Aftermath, 1586‒88." Parergon 40, no. 1 (2023): 131–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2023.a905417.
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Abstract: This article argues that the English Privy Council organised a persuasion campaign in the wake of the Babington Plot (1586). It examines a wealth of sources from a variety of genres, including prayers, sermons, ballads, and treatises, which are often analysed in isolation. It establishes the date of an anonymous sermon delivered at Paul’s Cross to condemn the Babington Plot, and it provides new information about the trials and executions of the traitors, making use of a little-known narrative written by the spy Maliverey Catilyn. The article reaffirms the traditional view that Tudor governments used popular propaganda to promote royal policy, which is of more utility than the theory of the ‘early modern public sphere’.
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Krug, Rebecca. "English Wycliffite Sermons, 4-5.Pamela Gradon , Anne Hudson." Speculum 74, no. 2 (April 1999): 420–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2887078.
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Peck, Russell A. "English Wycliffite Sermons, vol. 2 ed. by Pamela Gradon." Studies in the Age of Chaucer 12, no. 1 (1990): 281–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sac.1990.0023.
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Clement, Jennifer. "Bowels, emotion, and metaphor in early modern English sermons." Seventeenth Century 35, no. 4 (May 29, 2019): 435–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0268117x.2019.1605305.
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Clement, Jennifer. "The Art of Feeling in Seventeenth-Century English Sermons." English Studies 98, no. 7 (September 7, 2017): 675–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2017.1339989.
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Edwards, Francis. "English Sermons: Mirrors of Society ed. by Christiane d'Haussy." Catholic Historical Review 84, no. 1 (1998): 109–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cat.1998.0089.
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Peck, Russell A. "English Wycliffite Sermons. Vol. 1 ed. by Anne Hudson." Studies in the Age of Chaucer 7, no. 1 (1985): 202–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sac.1985.0021.
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HERAT, Manel. "Functions of English vs. Other Languages in Sri Lankan Buddhist Rituals in the UK." Acta Linguistica Asiatica 5, no. 1 (June 30, 2015): 85–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/ala.5.1.85-110.
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This paper focuses on the functions of English versus other languages in Sri Lankan Buddhist rituals. The framework for this paper is based on a previous work on the language of Hindu rituals by Pandharipande (2012). This study aims to examine the following research questions: what languages are used for practicing Buddhism? Is English used in Buddhist rituals? What mechanisms are used to sanction change? and (4) Will English replace Sinhala and Pali in the UK? In order to answer these research questions, I collected data by attending Sri Lankan Buddhist festivals and event in the UK and recording sermons and speeches used during these festivals to gather information regarding language use and language change. The study proved to be a worthy investigation, as unlike in Sri Lanka where only either Sinhala or Pali is sanctioned in Buddhist practice, in the UK, Sinhala is undergoing language shift and is being replaced by English during Buddhist sermons and other activities. Although prayers and ritual chantings are still in Pali, most of these are explained to the congregation using English. In addition, the use of English is also sanctioned by the Buddhist clergy, through the use of the internet and other media for purposes of promoting Buddhism and reaching young Sri Lankans born in the UK.
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Milburn, Joe. "Faith and Reason in the Oxford University Sermons." American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 92, no. 3 (2018): 483–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/acpq2018524158.
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I argue that we can understand John Henry Newman as defending the Principle of Faith throughout the University Sermons. According to the Principle of Faith, belief in the Christian message is in itself a good act of the mind, and it has moral significance. I argue that Newman’s developed account of faith and its relation to reason in Sermons 10 through 12 are designed to defend the Principle of Faith. Finally, I argue that we can understand Newman’s defense of the Principle of Faith as a reaction against criticisms dating back to the English Deists.
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Ndem, Ndi Eunice. "Pulpit Interpretation in the Cameroon Baptist Convention Churches." Global Academic Journal of Linguistics and Literature 5, no. 05 (September 23, 2023): 75–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.36348/gajll.2023.v05i05.002.
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This article examines how the Cameroon Baptist Church (CBC) makes efforts to pass across the gospel message to their target population through sermon interpreting. It highlights how interpretation of sermons are carried out by lay interpreters given the necessity of interpretation in bilingual congregations. The two languages concerned are French and English, the two official languages of Cameroon. The linguistic nature of Cameroon obliges the CBC to organize bilingual church services so as to minister alternately to their bilingual audience. While interpreting is necessary and obligatory given the target church population, the problem is the quality of interpretation due to unskilled interpreters that sometimes misinterpret messages leading to break down in communication. Break downs in sermon interpretations can really be misleading because the word of God is Yes and Amen. It is therefore concluded that given the centrality of interpreting in the CBC settings, it is important for the CBC to train interpreters and make use of them for the well being of evangelism.
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Baker, Eleanor. "Metaphors of Textual Materiality in Late Medieval Middle English Sermons." Studies in Philology 118, no. 4 (2021): 631–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sip.2021.0023.
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