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Ellenson, Robert Guffey.

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"Due audience": Accommodation theory and English homiletics, 1572--1691.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"Due audience": Accommodation theory and English homiletics, 1572--1691./
Author:	Ellenson, Robert Guffey.
Description:	434 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-03, Section: A, page: 0941.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-03A.
Subject:	Literature, English. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3127441
ISBN:	0496747055

"Due audience": Accommodation theory and English homiletics, 1572--1691.
Ellenson, Robert Guffey.

"Due audience": Accommodation theory and English homiletics, 1572--1691. - 434 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-03, Section: A, page: 0941.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2004.

This study examines the role of accommodation theory in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English homiletics. Accommodation theory is the dominant model for understanding religious language meaning during the middle ages. This theory describes God's self-revelation in terms that human beings can understand, resulting in the belief that theological language is appropriate for human capacities despite its mimetic inadequacy to describe the divine. Drawing from classical rhetoric theory, medieval divines extend this idea to describe the preacher's accommodation of sermonic language to fit the capacities of ordinary audiences. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, accommodation theory is gradually marginalized, redefined, and in some cases replaced by more secular criteria for understanding sermonic language, methods, and functions. These changes are evident in the Elizabethan church's redefinition of the role of the preacher and the subsequent debate between nonconformist and pro-episcopal divines, in the renewal of emphasis on the preacher as a mediator between the sufficiency of the Bible and the rational context of human awareness, in the advent of "logical" preaching and the notion of proof in religious persuasion, and in the merging of pulpit preaching with the formal alternatives of printed sermons and private instruction. This study shows that the crises in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English homiletic theory---and the forms of preaching they engendered---are driven by a profound set of changes in thinking about the meaningfulness of religious language, focusing on the currency of accommodation theory as an explanatory model for religious discourse. Major changes include the redefinition of accommodation theory to minimize the scope of Biblical accommodation and to enlarge the preacher's personal authority in relating religious insights to audiences; the replacement of accommodation theory with notions of axial language and logical argumentation in preaching; the marginalization of accommodation theory to matters of historical context and popular taste; and the enlargement of accommodation theory to justify the movement of religious instruction from the pulpit to secular and private contexts. These changes help us understand the formal innovations of English Reformation sermons. They also lay the foundations for modern thinking about the problems inherent in religious discourse.

ISBN: 0496747055Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017709
Literature, English.

"Due audience": Accommodation theory and English homiletics, 1572--1691.
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