Kritische Ausgabe

Johann Joachim Spalding was the most powerful and most effective Lutheran pulpit preacher at the culmination, also known as the »neology,« of religious Enlightenment.
The first volume of Johann Joachim Spalding's »Sermons« ( ¹1765, ²1768, ³1775) is an exemplary documentation of the neological connection between emotional and intellectual piety and explains why many well-known contemporaries such as Goethe, Herder and Kant held the biblical and reformative relevancy and the linguistic clarity of Spalding as a preacher in such high regard. This critical edition makes it possible to reconstruct the text of the three authorized editions without any difficulty and with its historical annotations as well as its detailed indexes of biblical passages, names, places and subjects it provides an invaluable aid for exploring the texts.