Sermon
Sermons were read out by the Catholic monks and priests in the parishes in the early 14th and 15th centuries in order to make believers aware of the bad things of worldly life. In addition, in such a sermon, the wrongdoings are named and the consequences, the penalties that can arise if the rules are not followed, are described in sometimes drastic words. In a criminal sermon, the addressees are reprimanded and pointed out to their duties to be fulfilled.
The New England Congregationalist Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), who constantly conjured fire and brimstone on the listening sinners, became known as a criminal preacher . His famous sermon, The Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God , is often cited as an example of this type of address in theological lectures.
Other names
- The term “ someone read the Levites ” comes from the early medieval customs of the Benedictine order , as the rules for the Levites in the 3rd book of Moses (Latin Leviticus ) often served as the basis for the penal sermons . Bishop Chrodegang of Metz is said to have delivered these sermons to the monks first.
- Even a Philippika , a punitive speech that goes back to Demosthenes , is considered a penal sermon in common parlance.
- A curtain sermon is a punishment sermon that goes out from the curtain in the name of a bed curtain. The preaching wife is said to have given the husband, who returned home late, scolding, threats and reprimands.
- The term lecture for a criminal sermon that was accompanied by reproaches and the appeal to the conscience of the sinner comes from a student-language modification of the term of the professorial speech , in which someone was admonished and censured. For the bass drum , the verb is cramming for the purposes of draufschlagen responsible. The term lecture drum has only been used since the first third of the 15th century. It is probably due to the external design of the sermons. Because loud drumbeats should also frighten the addressees and be reminded to follow their duties.
- A Moralpredigt (also morality kettledrum ) is a strongly attenuated form of the lecture. Here, the preacher, who by no means does not have to represent a religious person, refers to the ethical components of human behavior in the form of moralizing admonitions and encourages improvement.
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- ↑ http://www.glaubensstimme.de/doku.php?id=autoren:edwards:edwards-die_suender_in_den_haenden_eines_zornigen_gottes
- ↑ Jonathan Edwards: The sinners in the hands of an angry God. In: (= MBS Texts. No. 74, 3rd year.) Martin Bucer Seminar , s. l. 2006. Digitized version (accessed on: April 12, 2012).
- ↑ Article in the Stuttgarter Zeitung ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Duden 11 of 1992, p. 452 (Leviten), p. 232 (Curtain Sermon), p. 681 (Standpauke)