Sown on Rock: The Sermon on the Vernacular and the Correspondence with Hedio:

If any single sermon embodies the reformation of preaching, this is it. Rarely has a simple, straightforward sermon caused such a stir or been so widely circulated so fast. At once a long-deferred return to patristic exposition in the style of Chrysostom and the ancestor of evangelical preaching at its best, Oecolampadius' Sermon on the Vernacular is here translated into English for the first time, with all of his 1522 correspondence, including "A Beautiful Letter" to Caspar Hedio, with whi...