Introduction: Ministers and media
Part I: Religious goals: pastoral approaches to devotion, vocation, and print
1 The ubiquity of 'the devotional'
2 The making of a pastor-author
3 The call to preach and the question of printed sermons
Part II: Audiences: imagining and fostering relationships with readers
4 If you learn nothing else: catechisms and the question of the fundamentals of the faith
5 Different audiences, different messages: explication and implication in anti-Catholic publications
6 A bit of parish trouble and a manual on giving: self-representation to insiders and outsiders
Part III: Innovation: Adapting content, genre, and format
7 A trial, a guide for jurors, and an allegory: one experience inspiring generically divergent publications
8 A puritan pastor-author in the 1630s: tailoring the presentation of theological content
9 'That all the Lord's people could prophesy': innovating in the reference genre (and turning against episcopacy?)
10 The paradigm of the 'pastor-author' beyond Bernard
Index