Jrdische Pilgrimschafft und Himmlische Burgerschafft
Subtitle: Leid und Trost in Fruhneuzeitlichen Leichenpredigten
Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH
Published: 2019
Language: ger
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9783847109266
Subjects: Theology, practical
Description: The Early Modern funeral sermons are testimonials to the cultural impact of faith and religiosity. The author provides an analysis of how seventeenth-century Lutheran and Catholic funeral preaching deals with sorrow and consolation. It looks at these aspects as interconfessional phenomena in the multimedia context of the sermons, discussing how preachers articulate Christian doctrine and religious piety in the face of human finitude and mortality. Additional sources such as epicedia, epitaphs, dogmatic writing, and contemporary texts of meditation, together with selected examples from Early Modern sacred poetry and printed graphics supplement the study.