A Legacy of Preaching, Volume One---Apostles to the Revivalists: The Life, Theology, and Method of History's Great Preachers

Timothy George

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A Legacy of Preaching, Volume One--Apostles to the Revivalists explores the history and development of preaching through a biographical and theological examination of its most important preachers. Instead of teaching the history of preaching from the perspective of movements and eras, each contributor tells the story of a particular preacher in history, allowing the preachers from the past to come alive and instruct us through their lives, theologies, and methods of preaching.

Each chapter introduces readers to a key figure in the history of preaching, followed by an analysis of the theological views that shaped their preaching, their methodology of sermon preparation and delivery, and an appraisal of the significant contributions they have made to the history of preaching. This diverse collection of familiar and lesser-known individuals provides a detailed and fascinating look at what it has meant to communicate the gospel over the past two thousand years. By looking at how the gospel has been communicated over time and across different cultures, pastors, scholars, and homiletics students can enrich their own understanding and practice of preaching for application today.

Volume One covers the period from the apostles to the revivalists and profiles thirty preachers including:

Paul by Eric Rowe

Peter by David R. Beck

Melito of Sardis by Paul A. Hartog

Origen of Alexandria by Stephen O. Presley

Ephrem the Syrian by Jonathan J. Armstrong

Basil of Caesarea by Jonathan Morgan

John Chrysostom by Paul A. Hartog

Augustine of Hippo by Edward L. Smither

Gregory the Great by W. Brian Shelton

Bernard of Clairvaux by Elizabeth Hoare

Francis of Assisi by Timothy D. Holder

Saint Bonaventure by G. R. Evans

Meister Eckhart by Daniel Farca?

Johannes Tauler by Byard Bennett

John Huss by Mark A. Howell

Girolamo Savonarola by W. Brian Shelton

Martin Luther by Robert Kolb

Ulrich Zwingli by Kevin L. King

Balthasar Hubmaier by Corneliu C. Simu?

William Tyndale by Scott A. Wenig

John Calvin by Anthony N. S. Lane

William Perkins by Dwayne Milioni

Richard Baxter by Simon Vibert

John Owen by Henry M. Knapp

John Bunyan by Larry Steven McDonald

Matthew Henry by William C. Watson and W. Ross Hastings

Fran�ois F�nelon by Martin I. Klauber

Jonathan Edwards by Gerald R. McDermott

John Wesley by Michael Pasquarello III

George Whitefield by Bill Curtis and Timothy McKnight

Volume Two, available separately, covers the period from the Enlightenment to the present day and profiles thirty-one preachers including Charles Haddon Spurgeon, D. L. Moody, Billy Sunday, Karl Barth, D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, John Stott, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Martin Luther King Jr., Billy Graham, and more.