Postil
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates A postil or postill (Template:Langx; Template:Langx) was originally a term for Bible commentaries. It is derived from the Latin Script error: No such module "Lang". ("after these words from Scripture"),[1] referring to biblical readings. The word first occurs in the chronicle (with reference to examples of 1228 and 1238) of Nicolas Trivetus, but later it came to mean only homiletic exposition, and thus became synonymous with the homily in distinction from the thematic sermon. Finally, after the middle of the fourteenth century, it was applied to an annual cycle of homilies.[2]
Early Lutheran postils
From the time of Martin Luther, who published the first part of his postil under the title Script error: No such module "Lang". (Wittenberg, 1521), every annual cycle of sermons on the lessons, whether consisting of homilies or formal sermons, is termed a postil. A few of the most famous Lutheran postils are those of M. Luther (Script error: No such module "Lang"., Wittenberg, 1527; Script error: No such module "Lang"., 1542, 1549), P. Melanchthon (Script error: No such module "Lang"., Germ., Nuremberg, 1549; Lat., Hanover, 1594), M. Chemnitz (Script error: No such module "Lang"., Magdeburg, 1594), L. Osiander (Script error: No such module "Lang"., Tübingen, 1597), and J. Arndt (Script error: No such module "Lang"., Leipzig, 1616).[2]
Catholic postils
By 1530 postils were commonly used in Catholic preaching, at least in Germany.Template:Sfn The two (in Latin) by Thomas Stapleton proved popular.Template:Sfn Frymire has tabulated the development from 1520 (Catholic and Lutheran).Template:Sfn
Later postils
The term postil fell into disuse during the period of Pietism and the Enlightenment, but was revived by Claus Harms (Script error: No such module "Lang"., Kiel, 1812; Script error: No such module "Lang"., 1815). It has again become common through W. Löhe (Script error: No such module "Lang"., Frommel 1848; Script error: No such module "Lang"., 1858), and M. Stuttgart (Script error: No such module "Lang"., Bremen, 1882, 1890; Script error: No such module "Lang"., 1887–88; Script error: No such module "Lang"., 1890).[2]
Reformed Churches, which disregard a regular series of lessons, have no postils; in the Roman Catholic Church the term has been kept, especially through Leonard Goffiné (Script error: No such module "Lang". (Mainz, 1690; popular, illustrated ed., reissued twenty-one times by H. Herder, Freiburg-im-Breisgau, 1875–1908; Eng. transl., T. Noethen, New York, n.d.).[2]
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