Pray Like Jesus Leader Guide - Couverture souple

Underwood, Don

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1501831070 ISBN 13 : 9781501831072

Editeur : Abingdon Press, 2017

Synopsis

A History of Preaching brings together narrative history and primary sources to provide the most comprehensive guide available to the story of the church's ministry of proclamation. Bringing together an impressive array of familiar and lesser-known figures, Edwards paints a detailed, compelling picture of what it has meant to preach the gospel. Pastors, scholars, and students of homiletics will find here many opportunities to enrich their understanding and practice of preaching. Volume 1 contains Edwards's magisterial retelling of the story of Christian preaching's development from its Hellenistic and Jewish roots in the New Testament, through the late-twentieth century's discontent with outdated forms and emphasis on new modes of preaching such as narrative. Along the way the author introduces us to the complexities and contributions of preachers, both with whom we are already acquainted, and to whom we will be introduced here for the first time. Origen, Chrysostom, Augustine, Bernard, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, Wesley, Edwards, Rauschenbusch, Barth; all of their distinctive contributions receive careful attention. Yet lesser-known figures and developments also appear, from the ninth-century reform of preaching championed by Hrabanus Maurus, to the reference books developed in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries by the mendicant orders to assist their members' preaching, to Howell Harris and Daniel Rowlands, preachers of the eighteenth-century Welsh revival, to Helen Kenyon, speaking as a layperson at the 1950 Yale Beecher lectures about the view of preaching from the pe

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À propos de l'auteur

Don Underwood served 37 years as Senior Minister of Christ United in Plano, Texas, and is now serving as Pastor Emeritus-Director of Donor Relations. He received his Bachelor's Degree from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, and his Master of Theology from the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Texas. Rev. Underwood and his wife Bobby have two children, Adam and Joshua. Don enjoys quarter horses, hunting. and is an instrument-rated private pilot.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Abingdon Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1501831070
• ISBN 13: 9781501831072
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 64
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• Personne responsable: non disponible