Preacher and Audience

Studies in Early Christian and Byzantine Homiletics

Author: Pauline Allen, Cunningham, Barkhuizen, Andrew Louth, Wendy Mayer, Anthony Meredith, Munitiz, A. Stewart-Sykes, Niki Tsironis and Th. Antonopoulou Series: A New History of the Sermon

A collection of studies on Greek-speaking preachers and audiences from the beginning of the 2nd century AD to the beginning of the 10th century. The studies cover themes including the identity of Greek-speaking preachers, the circumstances of delivery, and the different genres of homiletic.

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This is a collection of 13 studies on Greek-speaking preachers and audiences in a period from the beginning of the 2nd Century AD to the beginning of the 10th century. The studies cover themes including the identity of Greek-speaking preachers, the circumstances of delivery, the different genres of homiletic, the adaptation of the tropes of Classical rhetoric by Christian preachers, the subject-matter of sermons, exegetical approaches, the preparation, redaction and transmission of sermons, the audiences for sermons and their composition, the location and circumstances of preaching, and the interaction between preacher and audience. Each chapter is accompanied by a summary bibliography of the most important primary source and secondary literature.

Critic Reviews

“'..".a most admirable and substantial collection.' Alexander Evers, "Journal of Roman Studies, 2000. '..".well planned, tidily edited, with high quality contributions.' M.E. Mullett, "Journal of Hellenic Studies, 2000. '"Im ganzen ist der Band jedenfalls, was die Methodik der Fragestellung an den Gegenstand betrifft, von beeindruckender Geschollsenheit.' Franz Tinnefeld, "Jahrbuch der Vsterreichisen Byzantinistik, 2000. '"This book deserves to be the seedbed of a flowering of scholarship.' Richard Price, "Fellowship of St.Alban and St.Sergius.”

'...a most admirable and substantial collection.'Alexander Evers, Journal of Roman Studies, 2000.'...well planned, tidily edited, with high quality contributions.'M.E. Mullett, Journal of Hellenic Studies, 2000.'Im ganzen ist der Band jedenfalls, was die Methodik der Fragestellung an den Gegenstand betrifft, von beeindruckender Geschollsenheit.'Franz Tinnefeld, Jahrbuch der Österreichisen Byzantinistik, 2000.'This book deserves to be the seedbed of a flowering of scholarship.'Richard Price, Fellowship of St.Alban and St.Sergius.

About the Author

Mary B. Cunningham, Ph.D. (1984) in Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, England, is Honorary Research Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Research in the Humanities at the University of Birmingham. She has published papers on Byzantine preaching, edited homiletic and hagiographical texts and is currently working on a book on Andrew of Crete.Pauline Allen, D.Phil. (1977) in Litterae Humaniores, University of Oxford, is Director of the Centre for Early Christian Studies at Australian Catholic University. She has published on Christian preaching and ecclesiastical history, and has edited and translated early Byzantine texts.

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This volume brings together thirteen studies on Greek-speaking preachers and audiences in a period from the beginning of the second century A.D. to the beginning of the tenth century which has largely been neglected in the modern literature.The chapters represent a collection of case studies of individual preachers or periods of homiletic activity and cover themes including the identity of Greek-speaking preachers, the circumstances of delivery, the different genres of homiletic, the adaptation of the tropes of Classical approaches, the preparation, redaction and transmission of sermons, and the interaction between preacher and audience.Each chapter is accompanied by a summary bibliography of the most important primary sources and secondary literature.