Positive Preaching and Modern Mind
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
“The Christian preacher is not the successor of the Greek orator, but of the Hebrew prophet. The orator comes with but an inspiration, the prophet comes with a revelation.” Positive Preaching and Modern Mind is a series of lectures Forsyth delivered to students about to enter into the ministry. Three things are discussed in their various aspects in the nine lectures: the preacher, the gospel, and the age. For over one hundred years these lectures • on preaching have remained popular. Lectures include: • The Preacher and His Charter • The Authority of the Preacher • The Preacher and His Church, or, Preaching as Worship • The Preacher and the Age • The Preacher and Religious Reality • Preaching Positive and Liberal • Preaching Positive and Modern • The Preacher and Modern Ethic • The Moral Poignancy of the Cross • Epilogue
Top Highlights
“The Christian preacher is not the successor of the Greek orator, but of the Hebrew prophet. The orator comes with but an inspiration, the prophet comes with a revelation.” (Page 3)
“With preaching Christianity stands or falls because it is the declaration of a Gospel. Nay more—far more—it is the Gospel prolonging and declaring itself.” (Page 5)
“Where your object is to secure your audience, rather than your Gospel, preaching is sure to suffer.” (Page 4)
“I will venture to say that with its preaching Christianity stands or falls.” (Page 3)
“What I say will not hold good if the chief gift to the world is the Church and its sacraments, instead of the work and its word. Wherever you have the ritual sacraments to the front the preacher is to the rear, if he is there at all.” (Page 6)