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A history of preaching
- Author
- Edwards, O. C. (Otis Carl), 1928-
- Title
- A history of preaching / O.C. Edwards, Jr.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Nashville, TN : Abingdon Press, c2004.
- Description
- xxviii, 879 p. ; 24 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
- [Description]
- System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: Windows and Macintosh.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
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- 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.
- Subject headings
- Preaching--History.
- ISBN
- 0687038642 (alk. paper) 9780687038640 (alk. paper)