A treatise on the preparation and delivery of sermons / by John A. Broadus.
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TextPublication details: New York : A. C. Armstrong and Son, 1898.Description: xxi, 562 p. ; 20 cmSubject(s): DDC classification: - 251
- BV4211 .B67 1898
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Bibliography: p. 543-553.
Part I. Materials of preaching --
I. The text-selection --
1. Meaning of the term --
2. Advantages of having a text --
3. Rules for the selection of texts --
II. The text-interpretation --
1. Obligation to interpret carefully and strictly --
2. Chief sources of error in the interpretation of a text --
3. Examples of texts often misapplied --
4. Suggestions for the study of texts --
III. Subjects-classified --
1. Doctrinal subjects --
2. Subjects of morality --
3. Historical subjects --
4. Experimental subjects --
IV. Sermons for particular occasion and classes --
1. Funeral sermons --
2. Academic and anniversary sermons --
3. Revival sermons --
4. Sermons to children --
5. Sermons for other special classes --
V. General materials of preaching --
1. Invention and its aids --
2. Accumulation of materials --
3. Originality --
4. Plagiarism and borrowing --
5. Freshness in preaching-helps --
6. Sensational preaching-cautions --
VI. Special materials-explanation --
1. Explanation in general --
2. Explanation of texts --
3. Explanation of subjects --
VII. Special materials-argument --
1. Importance of argument in preaching --
2. Questions preliminary to argument --
3. Principal varieties of argument --
4. Certain forms of argument --
5. Refutation --
6. Order of arguments --
7. General suggestions as to argument --
VIII. Special materials-illustration --
1. Various uses of illustration --
2. Sources of illustration --
3. Cautions as to the employment of illustrations --
IX. Special materials-application --
Part II. Arrangement of a sermon --
I. Importance of arrangement --
II. The several parts of a sermon --
1. The introduction --
2. The discussion --
3. The conclusion --
III. Different species of sermons --
1. Subject-sermons --
2. Text-sermons --
3. Expository sermons --
Part III. Style --
I. General observation on style --
1. Nature and importance of style --
2. Means of improving style --
II. Qualities of style-perspicuity --
III. Energy of style --
IV. Elegance of style --
V. Imagination in preaching --
1. Uses of imagination to the orator --
2. Means of cultivating the imagination --
Part IV. Delivery of sermons --
I. The three methods of preparation and delivery --
1. Description and history of the three methods --
2. Reading --
3. Recitation --
4. Extemporaneous or free speaking --
5. General and special preparation for free delivery in preaching --
II. On delivery, as regards voice --
1. General remarks on delivery --
2. The voice-its distinct powers --
3. General improvement of the voice --
4. Management of the voice when actually preaching --
III. On delivery, as regards action --
Part V. Conduct of public worship --
1. Reading scripture --
2. Hymns --
3. Public prayer --
4. Length of the services --
5. Public decorum --
6. Concluding remarks
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