Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
Article Title
On the Good Name of the Dead: Peace, Liberty, and Empire in Robert Morehead's Waterloo Sermon
Keywords
Age of Enlightenment, Robert Morehead
Abstract
On Sunday, July 2, 1815, a fortnight after the battle of Waterloo, the Scottish Episcopalian minister Robert Morehead ( 1777-1842) preached a sermon- On the Good Name of the Dead [Ecclesiastes 7:1]-which displayed many of the components of a theory of Christian empire and combined them with the radically new approach to pulpit oratory that Morehead was helping to develop. The present essay offers a method of exploring the connection between ideology and rhetoric based on tools belonging to linguistic analysis rather than conventional historiography. Thus it is hoped that the evidential base available to historians may be extended. This sermon also suggests an approach to the relationship between the overseas missions developing theologies.
Recommended Citation
Tennant, Bob
(2011)
"On the Good Name of the Dead: Peace, Liberty, and Empire in Robert Morehead's Waterloo Sermon,"
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment: Vol. 1, Article 12.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/rae/vol1/iss1/12