The middle ages: 600 – 1500:
This period is known as a declining period of preaching. It’s entered into a wilderness. There were some homiletical productions founded. It was a repetition of less interest. A great shift was held from Chrysostom and Augustine to the reformation. The history of preaching cannot be stated without taking into account of the medieval period preaching. There is a difference from the form of modern preaching from the early church preaching. The difference was held in this medieval period.
Preaching was neglected mood in this period. There was only chanting in the church services. The sermons were preached only in the Latin language, which was not known to many people. The eulogies of the saints and the accounts…show more content… His speaking was very powerful by the burning passion. Peter had a most inspiring theme, for with the great religious motive he united an appeal to the love of war, which was so strong in that age, and to the love of adventure, which is always so strong. He became remarkably articulate to the creativeness for his theme. He described the act of behaviour of the holy places, and the blood of the Christians shed flows in the streets of Jerusalem. His interpretation is bound by a dull conformity. Church tradition stands supreme, the Scriptures and the fathers or collections of sayings gathered from both were offered as supports for…show more content… He encouraged clergy to learning. He used clergy in his administration. He expected to be together with by evangelization among the people. The renewal of learning was necessary to clergy if they were participated in his administration. Preaching was supposed to have a purposeful importance because it was the medium through which recently transformed pagans people were to receive their catechetical formation as Christians. So, there was civil and ecclesiastical support for a renewal of preaching. Charlemagne’s Admonitio generalis and the canons of the council of Arles were the document revealing the development of preaching in the period. Because of called of these document, sermon preached in all parishes in all Sundays and it should be delivered in the language of the