Lancelot Andrewes Selected Sermons and Lectures

by Andrewes, Lancelot; McCullough, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780198187745
• ISBN10: 0198187742
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-02-02
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This is the first annotated critical edition of works of Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626), a writer recognized by literary critics, historians, and theologians as one of the most important figures in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Peter McCullough, a leading expert on religious writing in theearly modern period, presents fourteen complete sermons and lectures preached by Andrewes across the whole range of his adult career, from Cambridge in the 1580s to the court of James I and VI in the 1620s. Through a radical reassessment of Andrewes's life, influence, and surviving texts, the editorpresents Andrewes as his contemporaries saw, heard, and read him, and as scholars are increasingly recognizing him: one of the most subtle, yet radical critics of mainstream Elizabethan Protestantism, and a literary artist of the highest order.The centuries-old influence of William Laud's authorized edition of Andrewes (1629) is here complicated and contextualized by the full use for the first time of the whole range of Andrewes's works printed before and after his lifetime, as well as manuscript sources. The edition also showcases theaesthetic brilliance of Andrewes's remarkable prose, and suggests new ways for scholars to carry forward the modern literary appreciation of Andrewes famously begun by T. S. Eliot. A full introductory essay sets study of Andrewes on a new footing by placing his works in the context of his life andcareer, surveying the history of responses to his writings, and summarizing the history of the transmission of his texts. The texts here are edited to high modern critical standards. The exhaustive commentary sets each selection in its historical context, documents Andrewes's myriad sources, glossesimportant and unfamiliar words and allusions, and translates his frequent quotations from the ancient Biblical languages.

Author Biography

Since completing his PhD at Princeton, Peter McCullough has held positions at Princeton University and Trinity College, Oxford. He is currently Fellow and Tutor at Lincoln College and a Lecturer in the Faculty of English at the University of Oxford.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
Chronology	lviii
Two most excellent Praiers, which the Preacher commonly used before his Exercises	1	(4)
from The Pattern of Catechistical Doctrine	5	(35)
Of the Interpretation of Scriptures	5	(6)
Of Prayer and Thanksgiving	11	(10)
Of outward reverence in God's worship	21	(12)
The Sabbath not wholly ceremonial	33	(5)
Of Places for publick Worship	38	(2)
A Sermon Preached at Saint Maries Hospital, on the X. of April, being Wednesday in Easter-weeke, A.D. MDLXXXVIII	40	(42)
Sacrilege a Snare. A Sermon Preached ad Clerum In the University of Cambridg	82	(18)
A Lecture on Genesis 2.18 (the Creation of Eve) Preached at St. Paul's Cathedral, 18 October 1591	100	(8)
A Sermon Preached before Queene Elizabeth, at Hampton Court, on Wednesday, being the VI. of March, A.D. MDXCIIII.	108	(14)
A Sermon Preached at the Court, on the XXV. of March, A.D. MDXCVII. being Good-Friday.	122	(16)
A Sermon on Isaiah 6.6--7, Preached at St. Giles Cripplegate, 1 October 1598	138	(8)
A Sermon Preached before the King's Majestie, at White-Hall, on the V. of November. A.D. MDCVI.	146	(16)
A Sermon Preached before the Kings Majestic at Whitehall, on Christmas Day. ANNO 1609	162	(16)
A Sermon Preached before His Majestie, on Sunday the fifth of August last, at Holdenbie . . . 1610	178	(29)
A Sermon Preached before the King's Majestie at Greenwich on the XXIV. of May, A.D. MDCXVIII. being Whit-Sunday.	207	(18)
A Sermon Preached at White-Hall, on Easter day the 16. of April. 1620.	225	(18)
Appendix 1. A Sermon Preached at the Spittle by Master Andrewes . . . April. 10, 1588	243	(22)
Appendix 2. Table of Correspondence: Sermon at St Mary's Hospital, 1588	265	(2)
Explanatory Notes	267	(200)
Abbreviations	267	(4)
Other Works Frequently Cited	271	(1)
Notes	272	(195)
Index of Biblical Texts	467	(12)
General Index	479