Order code: HCEDP | 978-1-59525-005-6 | Paperback | 6 x 9 | 250 pages | Language: English | Copyright Year: 2005
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The Church of medieval Europe struggled to find ways to present the Gospel to people in the midst of cultural change and upheaval. This fascinating study is an excellent resource for all Church homilists, preachers, and even catechists who want models and strategies for linking the deeper truths of the faith to the changing and diverse needs of people in their communities. By studying the methods and sermons of doctrinal preachers from Augustine until the eve of Trent, we can learn how to be more conscious of what preaching can accomplish. As a work that appeals to a common tradition in the various Western Churches, this study is also helpful across denominational lines.
Featuring detailed analysis of medieval homilies and sermons from St. Augustine, St. Gregory the Great, St. Bonaventure, John Colet, and Henry Suso, as well as original sermons available for the first time in English from Peter Damien and Stephen Langdon, this book is an ideal tool for pastors, deacons, retreat leaders, and homiletic students. Also included are end of chapter questions for further study. This title also serves to introduce readers into the theology and the history of the period.
C. Colt Anderson is associate professor of Church history at University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary and has a PHD from Marquette University. He specializes in Church History from the 5th to the 16th centuries. His interests include both Catholic and Protestant reform movements, Franciscan theology, Exegesis, and Ecclesiology. He is the author of "A Call to Piety: St. Bonaventure's Collations on the Six Days" from the "Studies in Franciscanism" series (Franciscan Press/Quincy University, 2002).
“With this book, Dr. Colt Anderson has made a significant contribution to the teaching of preaching in seminaries. Rather than presenting us with techniques of exegesis and delivery, Dr. Anderson has first addressed the critical question of why we preach at all. Preaching, he reminds us, like all ministry, is about the cure of souls. …While today, we tend to think of preaching as limited to the homily at Mass, Dr. Anderson shows us the wider view which was held by saints and popes during the middle ages. In light of Pope John Paul II’s call for a New Evangelization, Dr. Anderson offers this wider view of the preaching task as a way to address the contemporary situation, when so many people no longer come to church to listen to homilies. … I recommend this book to bishops, priests and deacons, to lay ecclesial ministers and catechists as well as chaplains and pastoral counselors, in short, anyone charged with the care of souls. You will be better for reading it and your ministry will be too.”
—Rev. Thomas Baima, MBA, STD,
Vice President and Provost
University of St. Mary of the Lake / Mundelein Seminary
“We preachers are repeatedly frustrated with the biblical and theological illiteracy of our hearers, but rarely do we admit our own illiteracy concerning the history of preaching. Dr. Anderson offers a significant opportunity to overcome this problem by examining great doctrinal preachers of the Middle Ages with his ear attuned to preaching from the past, but his eye focused on the pulpit of today. With theological and pastoral insight, he offers his readers the opportunity to relate the struggles of Medieval preaching to our own struggles to proclaim the gospel with relevancy and power in the twenty-first century.”
—O. Wesley Allen, Jr.,
Asst. Professor of Homiletics
Lexington Theological Seminary
“The volume offers hitherto unavailable translations of landmark examples of patristic and medieval preaching. These will be of interest to medievalists and theologians alike; the commentary and introductory essays are useful aids to readers approaching the material with limited knowledge of the historical setting.”
—Dr. Wanda Zemler-Cizewski,
Marquette University
“This volume is remarkable for clarity of perception, profundity of thought, and incisive penetration into the rhetoric and doctrine of preaching through the ages. Dr. Anderson skillfully explains how history and theology can be applied to the pastoral needs associated with the ministry of the word. The sermons in Christian Eloquence soar above the field. I have found Anderson’s book to be a wonderful vade mecum, especially for teachers and students of Sacred Eloquence.”
—Peter Damian Akpunonu,
Professor of Biblical Exegesis
University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary
Member, the Vatican’s International Theological Commission
This supplement will be available soon.
