Krêslins, Jânis
Dominus narrabit in scriptura populorum

A Study of Early Seventeenth-Century Lutheran Teaching on Preaching and the "Lettische lang-gewünschte Postill" of Georgius Mancelius.

Juxtaposing the development of a teaching on preaching at the Lutheran bastions of learning with a text that is conceived for the needs of the Latvian peasant and is written in the Baltic region, the study analyzes the tensions between content and form against the background of the political, religious, cultural and socal situation in the Baltic region at the beginning of the seventeenth century. - Aus dem Inhalt: Preface. - Introduction. - I. Rhetoricati surnus: The Early Seventeeth-Century Search for a Lutheran Method of Preaching. - II. Lutheran Preaching and the Challenge of the Latininzed Aristotelian Metaphysics. - III. Preaching the Word of God in Latvian. - IV. The World View of Mancelius’s "Lettische Postill". - V. The Call to Personal Reform in the "Lettische Postill". - VI. Towards a Theory of Style: Mancelius’s "Lettische Postill" against the Background of Lutheran Teaching on 'elocutio'. - Conclusion. - Appendices: 1. Selective Biographical Dictionary; 2. Glossary of Baltic Place Names; 3. Glossary of Rhetorical Terms. - Bibliography. - Index. 280 Seiten mit 9 s/w-Tafeln, broschiert (Wolfenbütteler Forschungen; Band 54/Harrassowitz Verlag 1992)