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A history of preaching /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Edwards, O. C. (Otis Carl), 1928-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Nashville, TN : Abingdon Press, [2004]
Subjects:
Preaching > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Homiletical origins. The earliest Christian preaching
  • The homily takes shape
  • Eloquence in Cappadocia
  • Homiletics and catechetics: Chrysostom and others
  • Augustine: the sign reader
  • Pt. 2. The Middle Ages. The trek to the Middle Ages
  • The early Medieval period
  • The Renaissance of the eleventh and twelfth centuries
  • The explosion of preaching in the thireteenth and fourteenth centuries
  • A homiletic miscellany
  • Pt. 3. From the Renaissance and Reformation to the Enlightenment. Erasmus and the humanists
  • The Reformation preaching of Luther and Melanchthon
  • Calvin and the Reform tradition
  • The preaching of Catholic Reform
  • Upheaval in Britain
  • Pt. 4. The modern era: from the Restoration to World War I. The dawn of modernity (A): the Restoration and the Age of Reason
  • The dawn of modernity (B): the recovery of feeling
  • American reveille
  • The second call
  • "The fruits of fervor" (A): among African Americans
  • "The fruits of fervor" (B): "Your daughters shall prophesy"
  • The preaching of Romanticism in Britain
  • Transatlantic Romanticism
  • The triumph of Romanticism
  • Pt. 5. The century of change. Pastoral counseling through preaching
  • The resurgence of orthodoxy
  • Preaching as an element of worship
  • A homiletical epiphany: the emergence of African American preaching in majority consciousness
  • Mainstream prophecy
  • A great company of women
  • Evangelism in an electronic age
  • A crisis in communication.