Brief History of Preaching

Question 1

What are the three partners of preaching?

Answer 1

Rhetoric, theology, and language

Question 2

What are Augustine’s three purposes of the sermon as proposed in On Christian Doctrine?

Answer 2

To teach, To Delight, and To Persuade

Question 3

Why was there an increase in textbooks on preaching in the Medieval Period?

Answer 3

The establishment of religious orders.

Question 4

What were the two predominate religious orders in the Medieval period?

Answer 4

Franciscans and Dominicans

Question 5

Which order was knows as the “Order of Preachers?”

Answer 5

Dominicans

Question 6

What are the three names of the Dominican style of single verse preaching?

Answer 6

university sermon, scholastic sermon, and thematic sermon

Question 7

What did Schleiermacher do for the focus of the sermon?

Answer 7

Moved it to the listener, and focused on subjective experiences of God.

Question 8

What 19th century homiletician moved away from logical deductions and enlightenment rationalism, and focused on theology as the dominant partner with preaching?

Answer 8

John Henry Newman

Question 9

What 19th century homiletician led preaching into enlightenment reasoning and Aristotlian rhetoric?

Answer 9

John Broadus

Question 10

Who wrote “A Treatus on the Preparation and Deliver of Sermons?”

Answer 10

John Broadus

Question 11

Why was 1928 an important year in homiletics?

Answer 11

Harry Emerson Fosdick wrote, “what’s the matter with preaching” and Karl Barth wrote, “The Word of God and the Word of Man.”

Question 12

What dimension of preaching did Harry Emerson Fosdick focus on?

Answer 12

The peoples problems.

Question 13

Describe Barth’s view of preaching?

Answer 13

Preaching and theology are first cousins. Their task is to receive and transmit the Word of God. Barth emphasized scripture and began the biblical theology movement. “Preaching is the word of God when it interprets and preaches the Word of God as revealed through Scripture.”

Question 14

What is the “Shanon/Weaver Model” of communication?

Answer 14

One begins with the source then transmits the message via a channel to a reciever.

Question 15

What are the three steps of the communication process according to Em Griffin in “The Mind Changers?”

Answer 15

1. Melt - Break down resistance.
2. Mold - Offer a new perspective or way of life.
3. Make Hard - inoculate the listener against forces that might change the mind.

Question 16

What did H. Grady Davis offer in his work “Design for Preaching?”

Answer 16

The work was devoted to the form of the sermons. Sermon around a narrative plot. The sermon is like a living organism. Structure grows from within.

Question 17

What book did David Randolph write?

Answer 17

The Renewal of Preaching.

Question 18

What did David Randolph offer to the field of homiletics?

Answer 18

He appropriated the perspective of the New Hermeneutcs to North American homiletics. Language is analogous with reality. He coined the term “The New Homiletic.”

Question 19

What is the focus of “The New Homiletic?”

Answer 19

Not what they say but what they do.

Question 20

What book by Fred Craddock changed homiletics?

Answer 20

As One Without Authority

Question 21

What did Fred Craddock bring to homiletics?

Answer 21

1. Forced a transition in the way preachers percieve their function.
2. Proposed Inductive Preaching.
3. Contended that the meaning of a sermon rested in the listener not the preacher.
4. The purpose was to tell stories and relay experiences that listeners could easily identify with, thus enabling them to draw their own conclusions at the end of the sermon.