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Brian Pound asked for assistance with the scholarship on sermons.

You could check with Dorothy Parkander, English Department, Augustana
College, Rock Island, IL. She did her dissertation on Puritan sermons
at the University of Chicago in the 1960s. She claims to have read over
10,000 sermons and that ever since she finds it almost impossible to listen
to one. She was named Illinois College Teacher of the Year last year, an
honor that, as a former student of hers, I believe was richly deserved.
She's an excellent scholar and would certainly be glad to help you.

A second person you should check with is Peter McCollough, English Department
at Princeton, who has just completed his dissertation on sermons delivered
to Queen Elizabeth I and King James at St. Paul's and Windsor Castle.

Perhaps you are looking for material on modern sermons, but Parkander and
McCollough can certainly help with the rhetorical traditions of sermons
from which the modern forms have developed.

Arvid Sponberg
English Department
Valparaiso University
ASponberg@Exodus.Valpo.Edu