The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church: The Age of the Reformation: Vol.4: 04 (Reading & Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church)

The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church is a multivolume study by Hughes Oliphant Old that explores the history of preaching from the words of Moses at Mount Sinai through modern times. In Volume 4 The Age of the Reformation Old focuses on changes in preaching due to the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation. This is the pivotal volume in Olds project covering as it does not only what the Reformers and Counter-Reformers preached but also their reform of preaching itself. Old traces the main events and people involved in the development of preaching at this time -- Luther Calvin Thomas of Villanova Francis Xavier William Perkins John Donne Johann Gerhard Jacques Bossuet and many more -- while also giving due attention to how preaching was itself an act of worship.