A Legacy of Preaching, Volume One: Apostles to the Revivalists
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Overview
A Legacy of Preaching, Volume One—Apostles to the Revivalists explores the history and development of preaching through a biographical and theological examination of its most important preachers. Instead of teaching the history of preaching from the perspective of movements and eras, each contributor tells the story of a particular preacher in history, allowing the preachers from the past to come alive and instruct us through their lives, theologies, and methods of preaching.
Top Highlights
“Paul teaches modern preachers several concepts. First, their sermons should at all points appeal to the authority of Scripture.” (Page 42)
“According to C. Richard Wells, these failures were not a hindrance to his development into the leading apostolic spokesman, but just the opposite. They were what necessitated his own repentance and restoration, which was required for the development of his preaching, since ‘the most authentic preaching will always be mediated through the most genuinely transformative life experience.’” (Page 48)
“However, according to both his own testimony in those letters and the portrayal of him in the book of Acts, his primary vocation was not one of writing, but preaching.” (Page 33)
“A final key principle of Augustine’s hermeneutics was that Scripture should be interpreted in a christocentric manner” (Page 149)
“The first is that for Peter, preaching was not a matter of human effort, but a divinely inspired activity” (Page 60)