01.06. Appendix
Appendix
Without attempting anything like a complete account of the Literature belonging to those departments of the History of Preaching which are treated in these lectures, it may be useful to mention some of the principal works in each case, so far as known to the author. On Lecture II. (Preaching in the Early Christian Centuries) I. Works of the Fathers, with the Lives, Prefaces, Monita, etc., of the Benedictine and Migne editions.
Works on Church History.
Gibbon.
Bingham’s Antiquities, and Smith’s Dict. of Christian Antiquities.
II. Paniel, Geschichte der christlichen Beredsamkeit und der Homiletik, 1839. (Much the most thorough work on the General History of Preaching; but only a fragment, ending with Augustine. Most of the chapter on Chrysostom was translated in the Bibliotheca Sacra, 1847.)
Ebert, Gesch. der christlich-lateinischen Literatur, 1874. (Extends to Charlemagne, and designed as Introduction to General History of the Literature of the Middle Ages in the West. A work of great learning, vigor and freshness, in which, however, the history of preaching necessarily occupies a subordinate place.)
Villemain, Tableau de l’Éloquence Chrétienne au IVe Siècle. (New edition, 1870. A series of very entertaining essays.)
Moule, Christian Oratory during the first five centuries. London, 1859. (A prize essay of considerable interest and value.)
Brömel, Homiletische Charakterbilder, 1869–74. (Begins with sketches of Chrysostom and Augustine. Well written and fair.)
Fish, Masterpieces of Pulpit Eloquence. New York. (Contains sermons, with brief historical sketches of periods and of individual preachers. It would be easy to point out faults in this work, but it is convenient and useful.)
III. On the Life of Chrysostom, Neander is still valuable, Perthes not worth much; Stephens (London, 1872) is the fullest and best work; Förster (Gotha, 1869) treats ably of Chrysostom in relation to Doctrine-history; “The Mouth of Gold,” by Edwin Johnson (New York, 1873), a sort of dramatic poem on the life and times of Chrysostom, is worth reading. —Martin, Saint Jean Chrysostome, ses œuvres et son siècle. Paris, 1875, three volumes, 8 vo., I have not seen.
Lecture III. (Medieval and Reformation Preaching) Works on Church History, and special works on the Reformation.
Works of St. Bernard, Antony of Padua, Thomas Aquinas, Tauler.
Lives and Works of Luther, Calvin, and Zwingle.
Lenz, Geschichte der christlichen Homiletik, 1839. (Useful, though meagre.) Neale, Medieval Preaching. London, 1856. (Not thorough, but serviceable.)
Baring-Gould, Post-Medieval Preaching. London, 1865. (A mere collection of curious odds and ends about second-rate preachers.) Brömel, Charakterbilder (as above).
Histories of German Preaching, especially those by Schenk and Schmidt, give accounts of Luther as a preacher.
Fish, Masterpieces (as before).
Lecture IV. (Great French Preachers) Works of the Preachers in question, especially of Bossuet, Bourdaloue, Massillon, Saurin, A. Monod, Bersier.
Voltaire, Age of Louis 14.
Vinet, Histoire de la Prédication parmi les Réformés de France au Dix-Septième Siècle. Paris, 1860. (A remarkably good book, containing sketches, representative extracts, critical discussions, and practical hints.) Feugère, Bourdaloue: Sa Prédication et son Temps. 2me éd. Paris. 1874. (Thorough and able.) Bossuet and his Contemporaries. New York, 1875. (By an English lady. Readable, and,of some value.)
Berthault, Saurin et la Prédication Protestante jusqu’ à la fin du règne de Louis XIV. Paris, 1875. (Pretty good, but not like Feugère or Vinet.)
Bungener, The Preacher and the King, or Bourdaloue in the Court of Louis XIV. (A new edition of the translation is just issued. Well known as an interesting and instructive story.) Alexander, Thoughts on Preaching. Art. “Eloquence of the French Pulpit.” (Quite good.)
Turnbull, Pulpit Orators of France and Switzerland. New York, 1848. (Several sermons from the first half of this century, with brief sketches of the preachers.)
Fish, Masterpieces (as before), and also his Pulpit Eloquence of the nineteenth century. (The translation he gives of Bourdaloue is faulty, and that of Massillon is very bad.) Lecture V. (English Pulpit) Lives and Works of the Preachers in question.
Works on English History.
Works on Ecelesiastical History of England, especially Burnet, Fuller, Wordsworth’s Eccl. Biography, Stoughton.
Fish’s two works (as above).
Alexander, Thoughts on Preaching. Art. “The Pulpit in Ancient and Modern Times.”
Great Modern Preachers. London. 1875. A small volume, containing a dozen pleasant sketches of English Preachers. Our Bishops and Deans. By Rev. F. Arnold. London, 1875. 2 volumes, 8vo. Hastily written, but entertaining.