Product Description: While the effects of historical criticism on theology in the modern period have been well documented, their implications for modern preaching have been largely ignored. Dawn DeVries examines the content of and reasoning behind the preaching on the Synoptic Gospels by John Calvin and Friedrich Schleiermacher in order to ascertain their responses to the historical Jesus...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This important study of John Calvin's sermons gives a complete review of Calvin's preaching activity, purpose, method and style. Included are the theological considerations that moved Calvin to preach the way he did; his view of the preacher's office, his duty, and the congregation's active participation; Calvin's expository method and the way he applied scripture to the needs of the congregation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The relationship between religion and culture is the key concern of this selection of John O'Malley's articles, as it was in his earlier one, "Rome and the Renaissance: Studies in Culture and Religion". The present articles address the questions of religious controversy, Church reform, and the character of Renaissance humanism, continuing the research published previously, but developing it in two specific directions...read more