
A History of Preaching Volume 2
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Bringing together an impressive array of familiar and lesser-known figures, Edwards paints a detailed, compelling picture of what it has meant to preach the gospel. Pastors, scholars, and students of homiletics will find here many opportunities to enrich their understanding and practice of preaching.
Ecumenical in scope, fair-minded in presentation, appreciative of the contributions that all the branches of the church have made to the story of what it means to develop, deliver, and listen to a sermon, A History of Preaching will be the definitive resource for anyone who wishes to preach or to understand preaching's role in living out the gospel.
Volume 2 contains primary source material on preaching drawn from the entire scope of the church's twenty centuries. The author has written an introduction to each selection, placing it in its historical context and pointing to its particular contribution. Each chapter in Volume 2 is geared to its companion chapter in Volume 1's narrative history.
Volume 1, available separately as 9781501833779, contains Edwards's magisterial retelling of the story of Christian preaching's development from its Hellenistic and Jewish roots in the New Testament, through the late-twentieth century's discontent with outdated forms and emphasis on new modes of preaching such as narrative. Along the way the author introduces us to the complexities and contributions of preachers, both with whom we are already acquainted, and to whom we will be introduced here for the first time. Origen, Chrysostom, Augustine, Bernard, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, Wesley, Edwards, Rauschenbusch, Barth; all of their distinctive contributions receive careful attention. Yet lesser-known figures and developments also appear, from the ninth-century reform of preaching championed by Hrabanus Maurus, to the reference books developed in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries by the mendicant orders to assist their members' preaching, to Howell Harris and Daniel Rowlands, preachers of the eighteenth-century Welsh revival, to Helen Kenyon, speaking as a layperson at the 1950 Yale Beecher lectures about the view of preaching from the pew.
"...'This work is expected to be the standard text on preaching for the next 30 years,' says Ann K. Riggs, who staffs the NCC's Faith and Order Commission. Author Edwards, former professor of preaching at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, is co-moderator of the commission, which studies church-uniting and church-dividing issues.
'A History of Preaching is ecumenical in scope and will be relevant in all our churches; we all participate in this field,' says Riggs...." from EcuLink, Number 65, Winter 2004-2005 published by the National Council of Churches
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O. C. Edwards is an historian and Professor Emeritus of Preaching at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary. He also served as President and Dean of that school. He is an ordained priest in the Episcopal Church.
Content
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface to Volume 2
- Part I: Homiletical Origins
- Chapter 1: The Earliest Christian Preaching
- A Synagogue Sermon
- Melito of Sardis: Homily on the Passover
- Chapter 2: The Homily Takes Shape
- Origen: On First Principles (Vol. 4, Chaps. 2-3)
- Chapter 3: Eloquence in Cappadocia
- Gregory Nazianzen: Panegyric on His Brother Caesarius (Oration 7)
- Chapter 4: Homiletics and Catechetics
- John Chrysostom: Sermons on the Statues, Homily 12
- Chapter 5: Augustine, the Sign Reader
- Augustine: De doctrina christiana, Book 4
- Augustine: Sermon on Psalm 31 [32]
- Part II: The Middle Ages
- Chapter 6: The Trek to the Middle Ages
- Caesarius of Arles: Sermon 100, "St. Augustine on the Ten Words of the Law and the Ten Plagues"
- Gregory the Great: Homily 37
- Chapter 7: The Early Medieval Period
- Charlemagne: Capitulary (Chapter 82)
- Hrabanus Maurus: Sermon Introduction
- Aelfric: Sermon for the Wednesday in Rogationtide
- Chapter 8: The Renaissance of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
- Guibert of Nogent: "The Way a Sermon Ought to Be Given"
- Alan of Lille: Sermon for the Day of Pentecost
- Bernard of Clairvaux: Sermon 6 on "He Who Dwells" (Psalm 91)
- Hildegard of Bingen: Homilies on the Gospels (24.1-4)
- Chapter 9: The Explosion of Preaching in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
- An Abstract of an Ars Praedicandi
- An Example from a Handbook for Preachers
- An Example of a Thematic Sermon
- Chapter 10: A Homiletic Miscellany
- Humbert of Romans: From On the Formation of Preachers
- Meister Eckhart: Sermon on Luke 10:38
- A Wycliffite Sermon in English
- Part III: From the Renaissance and Reformation to the Enlightenment
- Chapter 11: Erasmus and the Humanists
- Erasmus: A Résumé of Ecclesiastes
- Chapter 12: The Reformation Preaching of Luther and Melanchthon
- Martin Luther: Sermon on 2 Corinthians 3:4-6
- Melanchthon: The Didactic Genus in Elementorum Rhetorices
- Chapter 13: Calvin and the Reform Tradition
- John Calvin: Sermon 9 on Job 19:26-29
- Chapter 14: The Preaching of Catholic Reform
- A French Baroque Sermon on Charles Borremeo
- Chapter 15: Upheaval in Britain
- Hugh Latimer: Sixth Sermon before Edward VI
- Lancelot Andrewes: Fifteenth Nativity Sermon
- Part IV: The Modern Era: From the Restoration to World War I
- Chapter 16: The Dawn of Modernity (A): The Restoration and the Age of Reason
- John Tillotson: Sermon 48, "The Unity of the Divine Nature and the Blessed Trinity"
- Chapter 17: The Dawn of Modernity (B): The Recovery of Feeling
- George Whitefield: Sermon on Jacob's Ladder
- John Wesley: Preface to Sermons on Several Occasions
- C. H. Spurgeon: Lecture on the Aim of Preaching
- Chapter 18: American Reveille
- Jonathan Edwards: Sermon on a Divine and Supernatural Light
- Chapter 19: The Second Call
- Francis Asbury: Journal Sample Pages
- A Firsthand Report of a Camp Meeting
- Charles G. Finney: "The Wages of Sin"
- Chapter 20: "The Fruits of Fervor" (A): The Social Implications of Gospel Preaching
- Charles Albert Tindley: "Heaven's Christmas Tree"
- John Jasper: "The Stone Cut Out of the Mountain"
- Chapter 21: "The Fruits of Fervor" (B): "Your Daughters Shall Prophesy"
- Lucretia Mott: "Likeness to Christ"
- Julia A. J. Foote: "Love Not the World"
- Phoebe Palmer: From Promise of the Father (Chapter 4)
- Aimee Semple McPherson: A Chart Sermon
- A Sermon by a Unitarian Woman Minister in Iowa at the Turn of the Century
- Chapter 22: The Preaching of Romanticism in Britain
- John Henry Newman: A Sermon to Oxford Undergraduates
- Frederick W. Robertson: A Sermon on Biblical Inspiration
- Chapter 23: Transatlantic Romanticism
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Christmas Sermon
- Phillips Brooks: The Last of His Lectures on Preaching
- Chapter 24: The Triumph of Romanticism
- Washington Gladden: "Thy Kingdom Come"
- John A. Broadus: "Imagination in Preaching"
- Part V: The Century of Change
- Chapter 25: Pastoral Counseling through Preaching
- Harry Emerson Fosdick: The Project Method of Preaching
- Chapter 26: The Resurgence of Orthodoxy
- Norman H. Snaith: A Sermon for Bible Sunday
- Chapter 27: Preaching as an Element of Worship
- Reginald Fuller: Preface to Preaching the Lectionary
- Chapter 28: A Homiletical Epiphany: The Emergence of African American Preaching in Majority Consciousness
- Martin Luther King Jr.: A Version of "The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life"
- Chapter 29: Mainstream Prophecy
- William Sloan Coffin Jr.: "Homosexuality"
- A Group Reflection on the Gospel in Solentiname
- Cardinal Arns: A Sermon for the Funeral of a Worker
- Chapter 30: A Great Company of Women
- Tamsen Whistler: "A Woman's Faith"
- Barbara Brown Taylor: "Life Giving Fear"
- Chapter 31: Evangelism in an Electronic Age
- Bill Hybels: "Nobody Stands Alone" (Part One)
- Chapter 32: A Crisis in Communication
- Fred Craddock: An "Inductive" Sermon
- Edmund Steimle: Preaching the Story
- Donald Chatfield: A Story Sermon
- Thomas Troeger: An Imaginative Sermon
- Patricia Wilson-Kastner: A Sermon Connected by an Image
- Don Wardlaw: A Sermon that Follows the Form of the Text
- Scripture Index
- Subject Index
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