Theology and Intermediality in Early Modern Inauguration Sermons

这个项目的目标是对早期现代布道进行系统的分析，这些布道是在教堂、讲坛、祭坛、洗礼台、风琴和教堂钟声落成之际发表的。这种研究以前从未有过，它将考虑到这种类型的来源所处的各种历史背景。即教会历史、神学、训诂和布道的体裁以及对虔诚的实践和看法。该项目的重点是路德会，改革宗和天主教传教士从德语地区（1544年和1750年之间），这在很大程度上被忽视的大量布道。这将是第一次有可能探索早期现代偶尔布道的历史的重要部分，这是（除了葬礼布道）在研究方面的未知领域。该项目也有助于学术研究的早期现代骶骨中介，这是一个重要的发展领域的历史调查。早期现代偶尔布道作为历史来源提供了重要的洞察复杂的神学，训诂学和虔诚相关的思想呈现的复杂和尚未理解的方式，以及如何以创新的方式讨论中心神学主题。作者并没有简单地复制书面教义中固定的观点;事实上，例如，神学小册子来自就职典礼布道。因此，就职布道是非常重要的，但被忽视的，研究早期现代中介性的来源：它们是互文的，因为它们包括对圣经的引用，歌曲文本，教父的引用等，以及中间体：它们还包括对具有图像和文本（也包括中间）组合的开幕式文物的引用（例如绘画、浮雕、浮雕等），这不是大多数其他布道的情况。人工制品的神学“信息”（遵循特定的修辞模式）与圣经文本的注释相结合。通过各种媒体之间的互动，信徒们被引入了一个“精神增强的现实”。通过比较不同教派背景的布道词，可以考察和呈现就职布道词的异同以及教派特征.

The goal of this project is to undertake a systematic analysis of EarlyModern sermons, which were delivered and published on theoccasion of the inauguration of churches, pulpits, altars, baptismalfonts, organs and church bells. This kind of research has never beendone before and will take into account the various historical contextsthis type of source can be located in. Namely, Church history,Theology, the genres of exegesis and sermons as well as practices ofand views on piety. The project focuses on numerous sermons byLutheran, Reformed and Catholic preachers from German-speakingregions (between 1544 and 1750), which have largely beendisregarded. For the first time it will be possible to explore a vitalsegment of the history of the Early Modern occasional sermons,which are (apart from funeral sermons) a terra incognita in terms ofresearch. The project also contributes to the academic research onEarly Modern sacral intermediality, which is an important developingfield of historical inquiry. Early Modern occasional sermons ashistorical sources give important insight into the sophisticated and yetcomprehensible ways complex theological, exegetical and pietyrelatedthought was presented, and how central theological topicswere discussed in innovative ways. The authors did not simplyreproduce the opinions fixed in written teachings; in fact theologicaltracts emerged from inauguration sermons for example. Therefore,inauguration sermons are extremely important, yet overlooked,sources for the research of Early Modern intermediality: They areintertextual, seen as they include references to Scripture, song texts,quotations of the Church Fathers, etc., as well as intermedial: Theyalso include references to the inaugurated artefacts with (alsointermedial) combinations of images and text (e.g. paintings, reliefcarvings, emblems etc.), which is not the case in most other sermons.The theological ‘messages’ of the artefacts (which follow specificrhetorical patterns) are combined e.g. with the exegesis of biblicaltexts. Through the interaction between the various media thebelievers were introduced to a ‘spiritually augmented reality’. Bycomparing sermons from different confessional backgroundssimilarities and differences of the inauguration sermons as well asconfessional characteristics can be examined and presented.