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The Confessionalist Homiletics of Lucas Osiander (1534-1604): A Study of a South-German Lutheran Preacher in the Age of Confessionalization

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  • Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
  • 23.3 x 16.8 x 1.7 cm

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Lucas Osiander (1534-1604) was an influential preacher of the Lutheran orthodoxy. As a Wuerttemberg court preacher and superintendent, he played a central role when the country was established as one of the leading Lutheran forces in the Empire. Osiander preached to a wide audience in a time when sermons were a privileged form of communication and when preachers could address and negotiate the central interests in society. Using confessionalization theory, Sivert Angel studies Osiander's preaching in its political and theological context and shows how Osiander as a preacher could exert political influence. By analyzing Osiander's sermons in light of his own homiletic, the author describes how Osiander's role as a preacher may be traced in his sermons' rhetoric structures and in his use of theological concepts. The discussion of Osiander's theory and practice of preaching documents the ways that Osiander's sermons reinforced the existing political and social order and portrays central aspects of theology and piety in the later sixteenth century.
The Confessionalist Homiletics of Lucas Osiander (1534-1604): A Study of a South-German Lutheran Preacher in the Age of Confessionalization and Were We Ever Protestants?: Essays in Honour of Tarald Rasmussen
Were We Ever Protestants?: Essays in Honour of Tarald RasmussenThe Confessionalist Homiletics of Lucas Osiander (1534-1604): A Study of a South-German Lutheran Preacher in the Age of Confessionalization

  • Title

    The Confessionalist Homiletics of Lucas Osiander (1534-1604): A Study of a South-German Lutheran Preacher in the Age of Confessionalization

  • Author

    Sivert Angel

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Mohr Siebeck

  • Published

    November 2014

  • Weight

    641g

  • Dimensions

    23.3 x 16.8 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9783161534676

  • ISBN-10

    3161534670

  • Eden Code

    4894607