Dearly Beloved
Love, Rhetoric and the Seventeenth-Century English Sermon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8864008 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Clement (0000-0003-1588-3259, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 97 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 725-745 |
| Publication date | 2016-08-24 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | English Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-838X • E-ISSN: 1744-4217 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0013838x.2016.1198118 |
| OpenAlex | W2507352782 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 23 |
Early seventeenth-century English sermons often address their audiences directly as “beloved”. This form of address aims to create a Christian community of love; but, as classical rhetorical theory holds, the preacher’s ability to move his audience depends on his ability to be moved himself. At the same time, “beloved” is clearly a conventional term, one used by preachers such as Joseph Hall, John Donne, Richard Sibbes and John Preston, as well as mandated by the Book of Common Prayer. As this article argues, when the preacher uses the address “beloved” towards his congregation, he is speaking through the words and the passions of God. Through its analysis of “beloved” as a conventional form of sermonic address, this article develops a reading of love as an institutional feeling. Read this way, “beloved” comes into focus as a performative term, one that makes manifest the preacher’s doubled passions—his own, and God’s
Aesthetics · Art · Emotive · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Linguistics · Literature · Passions · Performative utterance · Prayer · Reading (process · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Sermon · Theology · Medieval Literature and History · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Philosophy
Selected Sermons and Lectures
Sacred Rhetoric
Preaching Venues
Politics and the Paul's Cross Sermons, 1558–1642
The Poetry of Religious Sorrow in Early Modern England
Moral Identity in Early Modern English Literature
Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance
Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance
Sermons at Court
Scripture, Style and Persuasion in Seventeenth-Century English Theories of Preaching
Passion and Action
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |