Sown on Rock: The Sermon on the Vernacular and the Correspondence with Hedio

by Johannes Oecolampadius, Caspar Hedio, Timothy Slemmons (Translator), Ernst Staehelin

Overview

If any single sermon embodies the reformation of preaching, this is it. Rarely has a simple, straightforward sermon caused such a stir or been so widely circulated so fast. At once a long-deferred return to patristic exposition in the style of Chrysostom and the ancestor of evangelical preaching at its best, Oecolampadius' Sermon on the Vernacular is here translated into English for the first time, with all of his 1522 correspondence, including "A Beautiful Letter" to Caspar Hedio, with which the sermon first appeared in print 500 years ago, as well as his initial exchange of letters with Zwingli, several dedications attached to his early translations, and more. A generous supplement includes two accounts of the period from 19th c. biographers and Ernst Staehelin's comprehensive 1916 essay on the Reformer's translations of the church fathers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798765529164
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	02/14/2022
Series:	Works of Oecolampadius , #2
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Johannes Oecolampadius (1482—1531), the Reformer of Basel, he ranks among the most important of the first generation of Reformers, yet few of his works have appeared in English.

Caspar Hedio (1494—1552) was a popular preacher who labored in Mainz and Strassburg, an early supporter of Zwingli, and Oecolampadius' most frequent correspondent during the crucial year of 1522.

Ernst Staehelin (1889—1980) was a Swiss Church Historian at the University of Basel and the leading Oecolampadius' scholar of the 20th c.

Timothy Matthew Slemmons is Professor of Homiletics and Worship and Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary.