Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front matter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. List of figures ix
5. Acknowledgements x
6. List of abbreviations xii
7. Select chronology xiii
8. Introduction 1
9. Part I: Religious goals: pastoral approaches to devotion, vocation, and print
10. 1 The ubiquity of ‘the devotional’ 31
11. 2 The making of a pastor-author 54
12. 3 The call to preach and the question of printed sermons 75
13. Part II: Audiences: imagining and fostering relationships with readers
14. 4 If you learn nothing else 101
15. 5 Different audiences, different messages 122
16. 6 A bit of parish trouble and a manual on giving 145
17. Part III: Innovation: adapting content, genre, and format
18. 7 A trial, a guide for jurors, and an allegory 161
19. 8 A puritan pastor-author in the 1630s 178
20. 9 ‘That all the Lord’s people could prophesy’ 195
21. 10 The paradigm of the ‘pastor-author’ beyond Bernard 216
22. Bibliography 241
23. Index 259