Time to push The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church into

MJ. Smith
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edited November 2024 in English Forum

http://www.logos.com/product/7445/the-reading-and-preaching-of-the-scriptures-in-the-worship-of-the-christian-church


Hughes Oliphant Old has given us a definitive, readable, enjoyable history of Christian preaching that is just begging to be in Logos It provides a great deal of information on hermeneutics and emphasizes Western Protestant traditions. It includes:

  • the roots of Christian ministry of the word in the worship of Israel
  • the preaching of Christ and the apostles
  • the second and third centuries
  • the flourishing of Greek preaching in the Christian empire - the school of Alexandria
  • the Jerusalem lectionary in the fifth century
  • the flourishing of Greek preaching in the Christian empire - the school of Antioch
  • the Syriac church
  • the Latin fathers
  • the eternal Gospel in a dying culture
  • Byzantine preaching
  • the mission to the barbarians
  • the shaping of the Roman lectionary
  • the Benedictines
  • the Cistercians
  • the schools
  • Franciscan preaching
  • the Dominicans
  • the German mystics
  • the Czech reform
  • the preaching of nominalist pietism
  • preaching in Italy at the birth of the Renaissance
  • the reformation
  • the counter-reformation
  • the Puritans
  • Anglican preaching
  • the flowering of Protestant orthodoxy in Germany
  • the flowering of Protestant orthodoxy in France
  • the flowering of Protestant orthodoxy in the Netherlands
  • the age of Louis XIV
  • moderatism
  • the awakenings of 18th century pietism
  • New England
  • Preaching in the Austro-Hungarian empire
  • Franciscan preaching in Spanish California
  • Romanian Orthodoxy under the Turks
  • the Russian Orthodox church
  • Scotland
  • evangelical Anglicanism
  • religious revival in a secularized Europe
  • German preaching in the wake of the Enlightenment
  • the evangelical Calvinism of New England
  • the old school
  • the Victorians
  • the great American school
  • the beginnings of Black preaching
  • German preaching in the Mississippi valley
  • Scotland in the 19th century
  • Southern Baptist preaching
  • Europe in crisis
  • the war years in Britain 1914-1960
  • the end of the Mainline
  • Billy Graham
  • a "new breed" of Presbyterian
  • Protestant preaching in Black Africa
  • liberation theology in Latin American
  • Vatican II and American Catholic preaching
  • the Romanian revolution and the preaching of Jean Alexandru
  • Black preaching
  • the charismatics
  • a new age in Britain
  • the megachurch
  • the young churches of East Asia

Most Christian traditions and geographic locations get some coverage. (Sorry, Scandinavia and Goa) Those who want minority, Orthodox or Puritan sources will all find something to meet their needs. Read sample pages on Logos or Amazon and place your preorder.

 

Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

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