{"product_id":"preaching-and-theology-in-anglosaxon-england-9781487598907","title":"Preaching and Theology in AngloSaxon England","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003ePreaching and Theology in Anglo-Saxon England\u003c\/em\u003e, Professor Gatch deals with two aspects of the writings of Ælfric and Wulfstan that have been hitherto ignored by scholars of the period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst, 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 for his homiletic materials, but questioning whether users of Ælfric's work (Wulfstan perhaps among them) understood or accepted the basic homiletic practices that the abbot had in mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecond, Gatch investigates the eschatological teaching of the homilists as specimen of the ove\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409178370391,"sku":"9781487598907","price":23.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487598907.jpg?v=1730505778","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/preaching-and-theology-in-anglosaxon-england-9781487598907","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}