Lectures on Preaching: Delivered Before the Divinity School of Yale College in January and February, 1877 (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Phillips Brooks

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330422767 ISBN 13 : 9781330422762

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

How to make a sermon that speaks with life and clarity In these lectures, Phillips Brooks shows how a preacher can shape a topic with purpose, balance, and genuine conviction. The result is a sermon that feels both true to the speaker and relevant to listeners.

This edition lays out practical guidance on choosing a sermon’s topic, preparing with care, and letting the preacher’s own life and personality shine through. It argues that a strong sermon blends sacred truth with personal experience, avoids superficial cramming, and grows from long, thoughtful study rather than quick, spontaneous effort. It also discusses how to treat the Bible as a connected whole, not a pile of isolated verses, to support a living, coherent message.

• How to decide what to preach about by weighing need, order, and personal interest.


• Why steady study and accumulation of truth make sermons stronger than week‑to‑week reading.


• How to keep the preacher’s life central to the message, so the word comes through the person.


• Guidance on handling Scripture with respect for unity and life, without losing one’s own voice.

Ideal for students of preaching, pastors, and anyone studying effective, thoughtful sermon craft.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Lectures on Preaching: Delivered Before the Divinity School of Yale College in January and February, 1877

Let me say one word more in introduction. He who is called upon to give these lectures cannot but remember that they are given every year, and that he has had very able and faithful predecessors. There are certainly, therefore, some things which he may venture to omit without being supposed to be either ignorant or careless of them. There are certain first principles, of primary importance, which he may take for granted in all that he says. They are so funda mental, that they must be always present, and their power must pervade every treatment of the work which is built upon them. But they need not be de liberately stated anew each year. It would make these courses of lectures very monotonous; and one may venture to assume that there are some elemen tary principles upon whose truth all students of the ology are agreed, and whose importance they all feel.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330422767
• ISBN 13: 9781330422762
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 308
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