This volume considers several aspects of preaching in the age of the Church Fathers and into medieval Europe. It brings together a dozen American scholars who specialize in the first Christian cent…
How do you preach t people who increasingly feel like "exiles" in a society whose dominant values they find difficult to accept? what do you say to people whose structured, reliable world that one …
This volume present in rapid survey, yet with scholarly precision, the history of preaching from New Testament to modern times. Christian proclamation has been characterized by three elements: the …
From the apostle Paul, Origen and Chrysostom through Aquinas, Luther, Calvin and Wesley to Catherine Mumford Booth, Harry Emerson Fosdick and Martin Luther King Jr., this book traces the history of…
with this succinct autobiographical statement Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. summarized the professional stock from which he sprang one in which preaching loomed large and all-consuming. Yet he is tell…
Beginning with Greco-Roman and Jewish oratorical traditions that shaped early Christian preaching, Folly of God tells how the preachers of a new way drew thousands to the Christian faith during its…
It is a matter for considerable surprise that hitherto there has not been undertaken a systematic study of preaching in England from the 'Eve of the Reformation' to the period of the early Anglican…
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the art of preaching is in peril. The problem is not that there are fewer preachers that at any other time in the life of the church - though many deno…
This is the only available survey of twentieth-century English preaching. It analyzes fourteen eminent preachers, concentrating on their religious thought and style of preaching. Eight different pr…
"Things are preached not in that they are taught, but in that they are published." There could be no better epigraph than this observation of Richard Hooker for the wide - ranging anthology within …