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Why should anyone care about, much less study, something so commonplace as preaching and sermons? Preaching and the Sermon in the Twentieth Century answers this question. The authors argue that preaching and the sermon belong together as a separate discipline, sermon studies. This book is the first systematic introduction to the field. Focusing on the period 1890-2019 and preaching in the Christian tradition, the essays in this collection examine the definitions of a sermon and the developments in preaching and the sermon in different areas of the world. Unique to this book are the authors’ discussions of the impact of “new” technologies such as TV and the crucial role played by women preachers. Sermon studies is important: this book explains why.
Price: $97.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in Preaching and the Sermon
Publication Date:
20 August 2026
ISBN: 9789004543539
Format: Paperback
Robert H. Ellison teaches English at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. He is co-editor (with Keith A. Francis) of De Gruyter Brill’s Studies in Preaching and the Sermon series and curator of the Library of Appalachian Preaching: A Digital Repository of Sermons.
Keith A. Francis is an independent scholar. He is a Visiting Fellow at Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom. He is co-editor (with Robert H. Ellison) of De Gruyter Brill’s Studies in Preaching and the Sermon series.
Keith A. Francis is an independent scholar. He is a Visiting Fellow at Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom. He is co-editor (with Robert H. Ellison) of De Gruyter Brill’s Studies in Preaching and the Sermon series.