Contents:Chapter One. The vagrant Word --
I. 'Hear the word of God' --
II. The responsibility of the hearer --
III. The word as personal --
IV. Historic parallels --
V. Contemporary occasions of difficulty --
VI. The contemporary bible --
VII. Theological and moral clarifications --
VIII. The preacher's prospectus --
Chapter Two. The liturgy --
I. A pattern of prayer and preaching --
II. The word in Scripture as integral --
III. The word in Scripture as pivotal --
IV. A theological framework --
V. The complete Biblical scope --
VI. The scope of the liturgy --
VII Liturgically conditioned preaching cumulative --
Chapter Three: The image --
I. The problem of language --
II. The image as the language of encounter --
The image as a language of accommodation --
IV. The place of imagination in preaching --
V. The maiming and recovery of the image --
VI. Elements of familiarity and surprise --
VII. Missionary and apologetic significance --
Chapter Four. The song --
I. Limitations of a verbal culture --
II. Response to revelation --
III. A solution by way of function --
IV. The structural pattern --
V. The art of selection --
VI. Sociological factors --
VII. The vexed question of objectivity --
VIII. Summing up --
Chapter Five. The mouth-piece --
I. The sermons as the occasion of encounter --
II. Elements of tension in the conception of church and preacher --
III. Biblical concreteness --
IV. Sacraments also are an action --
of God --
V. The note of Christian challenge --
VI. Multitudes in the valley of decision.
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