Research Catalog

Title

A history of preaching / O.C. Edwards, Jr.

Author

Edwards, O. C. (Otis Carl), 1928-

Publication

Nashville, TN : Abingdon Press, c2004.

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Details

Description

xxviii, 879 p.; 24 cm. +

Summary

Accompanying CD-ROM contains the full text of volume one and two. Volume two contains primary source material on preaching drawn from the entire scope of the church's twenty centuries. Each chapter in volume two is geared to its companion chapter in volume one's narrative history.

Subjects

• History
• Preaching > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

System Details (note)

• System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

0687038642 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004015607

OCLC

55845535

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library