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The lost Yale lectures on preaching by John A. Broadus

Because John A. Broadus’ Lyman Beecher Lectures on Preaching were not published, students have treated his textbook on homiletics as the substance of his Yale lectures. In this essay, press reports of the lectures are compared to the 1870 and 1898 editions of A TREATISE ON THE PREPARATION AND DELIVERY OF SERMONS to determine whether the lectures are incorporated in Broadus’ textbook.

Law in the New Testament: The Parable of the Prodigal Son

Luke xv. 11–32, an elaborate, circumstantial, in fact the longest, parable, calls now for the endeavours of a symposium. This paper cannot do more than open the legal aspects, which have already been handled by Professor David Daube and Professor Jean Dauvillier, and the symbolic aspects, which have been ignored. A complete investigation of the symbolism is not to be looked for until the midrashic links between the parable and its associated passages in Deuteronomy have been expounded by an expert in the technique of delivery of sermons amongst the Jews. Our parable's place in a lectionary cycle has been identified, and the implications of this also must be brought out: in part these will overlap with the work just alluded to, and in part they will reveal the early church's view of the parable's implicit significance. This work, however, will relate to the stage at which the parable became a written document, and to its worth for those who first used it in liturgy. This paper is concerned with Jesus’ own meaning, so far as we can rediscover it from the shape and content of the parable in the light of contemporary attitudes. Though this means covering ground already covered often, and much current exegesis will be confirmed, there is more by way of subtle statement and even more subtle contention in the parable than could have been realized before. Close studies of the vocabulary from Wetstein to J. Jeremias do not help us much at this stage of refinement; but it is interesting to note that in Jeremias's view, well substantiated as to the greater part of the parable, traces of the semitic origin of the document before us are visible throughout.

Sermon Delivery at its Best

Sermon Delivery at its Best

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Book Review: On the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons

Book Review: On the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons

Book Review: The Creative Delivery of Sermons

Book Review: The Creative Delivery of Sermons

Book Review: I. Educational and Practical: The Preparation and Delivery of Sermons

Book Review: I. Educational and Practical: The Preparation and Delivery of Sermons

The Preparation and Delivery of Sermons. Carl S. Patton

<i>The Preparation and Delivery of Sermons</i>. Carl S. Patton

Preaching and Evangelism

Preaching is the act or practice of delivering public discourses or addresses on moral and religious subjects, the delivery of sermons. Evangelism is the telling of the good news or the promulgation of the gospel. By definition, preaching may include evangelism; it does include much more. Why are these two words linked together in a subject for discussion ? Do we not know that the promulgation of the gospel is a religious enterprise ? Do we not know that one of the greatest of the moral and religious subjects man has been discussing for nineteen hundred years is evangelism? We may find argument for linking preaching and evangelism in the Scriptures; in the life and example of each of three New Testament workers, Christ, Paul, and Peter; in the charter of the church. Let us take up these three sources seriatim. In the Scriptures.-After making a fundamental statement Paul raised a

Recent Books on Preaching and Preachers

The books that have been written on the preparation and delivery of sermons are usually more helpful to ministers of some experience than to the students in divinity schools for whose instruction they were first of all intended. The man who is already a preacher, and who is also open-minded and willing to learn, sifts out from the detail of the numerous divisions and subdivisions of such books much that is suggestive and stimulating; his own experience interprets the precepts and warnings that are given, confirms their wisdom, and brings home their application. To the average student, on the other hand, the elaborate analysis easily becomes confusing; the sermon is made to appear a thing highly technical, if not artificial, and, in spite of any protest to the contrary which the book may contain, an end in itself instead of the means to an end. Learning to preach is like learning to do anything else. The rules for the beginner must be few and simple, and refinement and enrichment of method must come as part of the preacher's general growth, and with the gain in confidence and freedom which should naturally result from the continued practice of his calling. Many students would find it easier to begin to preach, and many preachers would be more effective, if they could understand from the first that the rules which govern the method of the sermon differ in no way from those of any other form of persuasive public speech.

A Treatise on the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons. John A. Broadus , Edwin Charles Dargan

Previous articleNext article FreeRecent Theological LiteratureA Treatise on the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons. John A. Broadus , Edwin Charles Dargan Galusha AndersonGalusha Anderson Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 2, Number 4Oct., 1898 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/476995 Views: 55 Journal History This article was published in The American Journal of Theology (1897-1920), which is continued by The Journal of Religion (1921-present). PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.