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Preaching and Theology in Anglo-Saxon England
In Preaching and Theology in Anglo-Saxon England, Professor Gatch deals with two aspects of the writings of Ælfric and Wulfstan that have been hitherto ignored by scholars of the period. First, he investigates the uses for which the two homilists prepared their sermons, analysing the homiliaries of the Carolingian church and its legislation concerning preaching and teaching, and showing that one should look not to the model of patristic preaching but to the development, in the place of exegetical preaching, of a vernacular catechetical office, the Prone. He also considers the evidence from England in the time of Ælfric and Wulfstan, distinguishing a number of uses which Ælfric intended fo...
So Precious a Foundation
Catalogue of an exhibition at the Grolier Club September 17 - November 23, 1996, drawn from an important collection of early religious manuscripts, incunabula, and Bibles.
"Till the Break of Day"
"Following the history of the Gatch family during the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, Milton McC. Gatch traces a quintessentially American story. Arriving in Maryland as indentured servants, the Gatches quickly became prosperous farmers adhering to the established Episcopal [Anglican] church. When Methodism was introduced, young Philip Gatch was converted and led his whole family into the new religious persuasion. As a circuit rider, he experienced persecution, and in Virginia during the Revolution he led an effort to establish an American Methodist church. At the end of the century, he took his family to the slavery-free territory across the Ohio River. There the family par...
Christian Ethics in Conversation
Inspired by Donald W. Shriver Jr.'s leadership of Union Theological Seminary (New York City), Christian Ethics in Conversation brings together essays by members of a stellar faculty--including Gary Dorrien, Larry Rasmussen, Phyllis Trible, and Cornel West--and interdisciplinary colleagues, such as Columbia University biologist Robert Pollack, Chancellor Emeritus of the Jewish Theological Seminary Ismar Schorsch, and Pulitzer Prize-winning Yale historian David W. Blight. The challenges they describe of embracing diversity while facing financial pressure and encouraging social change speak to seminaries, churches, denominations, and faithful individuals facing similar challenges today. The cha...
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