Preaching as Communication of Education in Late Antique Christianity (C04)

• Subject Area: Protestant Theology
• Term: from 2015 to 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 244798977

Religious speech was (and is) foundational to the development and stabilization of Christian identity. By scrutinizing selected collections of sermons (Peter Chrysologus, Caesarius of Arles), the subproject investigates whether late antique Christian religious speech a) employed education, that is, rhetoric (formal aspect), b) communicated education (material aspect) and c) theorized this process with regard to form, content, and agency (didactic aspect). This approach to aims and means of communication of education in sermons will shed new light on Late Antiquity which witnessed a remarkable flourishing of religious speech.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1136: Education and Religion in Cultures of the Mediterranean and Its Environment from Ancient to Medieval Times and to the Classical Islam
• Applicant Institution: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Peter Gemeinhardt