New resource – Classic Sermon Index

Bodleian Libraries users now have access to the Classic Sermon Index from Classic Sermon Index, LLC.

This resource catalogues over 40,000 sermons, published or translated into English. It includes Augustine, John Calvin, Richard Baxter, John Donne, Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Johnson, Martin Luther, John Henry Newman, John and Charles Wesley, Catherine Booth, Alexander Campbell, B. B. Warfield, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Karl Barth, Martin Luther King, Jr., etc. and sermons by the heads of the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Dublin, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Brown, etc.

Many sermons are from historically significant public executions, funerals, and coronations, such as spoken sermons from the funerals of George Washington and King George III. Many topical sermons about duelling, slavery, the Boston Tea Party, and other period specific issues are also indexed.

Each sermon is catalogued according to its principal text (e.g., John 3:16), author, book title, and page number within the book that contains it. It also indexes the sermons from Readex’s Early American Imprint series. Roughly 75% of the citations link to full-text.