The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church, Volume 6: The Modern Age

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2007 - Religion - 1019 pages
This sixth volume of Hughes Oliphant Old's monumental, acclaimed study of preaching throughout history, The Modern Age, tells the story of preaching and worship from the French Revolution to the fall of the Berlin Wall (1789 1989). During this period preaching continued to support the historic Christian faith while the church undertook to resist secularization, come to grips with biblical criticism, and initiate bold overseas missions.

Opening with the revived Catholic Order of Preachers, continental Protestants such as Abraham Kuyper, and the self-consciously modern preaching of Friedrich Schleiermacher, Old moves on to consider Victorian figures such as John Henry Newman and Charles Haddon Spurgeon. He carefully lays out the tensions between Old and New School Calvinism as well as the beginnings of black preaching and the great American tradition of Charles Finney, Dwight L. Moody, Harry Emerson Fosdick, and many more. In the twentieth century Old's focus falls on the crises of the two world wars, especially the courageous ministries of German, Dutch, and Hungarian preachers during the Third Reich.

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Contents

chapter i
1
HenriDominique Lacordaire 180261
8
Adolphe Monod 180256
18
Geremia Bonomelli 18311914
33
Abraham Kuyper 18371920
45
Agostino da Montefeltro 18391921
61
chapter ii
67
Friedrich Schleiermacher 17681834
74
Reuben Archer Torrey 18561928
516
Ernest Fremont Tittle 18851949
551
Ralph Washington Sockman 18891970
557
Norman Vincent Peale 18981993
572
ConclusionWhy Did the Power
579
George Leile ca 17501800
585
John Jasper 18121901
597
chapter viii
605

Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher 17961868
99
Ludwig Hofacker 17981828
114
Wilhelm Löhe 180272
121
Johann Tobias Beck 180478
135
Edward Dorr Griffin 17701837
163
Asahel Nettleton 17831844
178
Nathaniel Taylor 17861858
192
Adoniram Judson 17881850
202
Albert Barnes 17981870
205
chapter iv
217
Archibald Alexander 17721851
228
The Heritage of New Amsterdam
243
Henry Augustus Boardman 180880
281
Moses Drury Hoge 181889
311
Benjamin Morgan Palmer 18181902
321
John Livingston Nevius 182993
338
Conclusion
344
Thomas Arnold 17951842
350
Frederick W Robertson 181653
366
Charles Kingsley 181975
381
Alexander Maclaren 18261910
393
Robert William Dale 182995
399
Joseph Parker 18301902
411
Charles Finney 17921875
448
Horace Bushnell 180276
465
Henry Ward Beecher 181387
471
Phillips Brooks 183593
487
Sam Porter Jones 18471906
509
Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther 181187
611
Wilhelm Sihler 180185
622
Christian Schrenk 181982
628
Robert Morrison 17821834
636
Thomas Guthrie 180373
642
Alexander Duff 180678
675
Alexander Whyte 18361921
688
George Matheson 18421906
695
George Adam Smith 18561942
706
chapter x
715
Richard Fuller 180476
726
B H Carroll 18431914
737
chapter xi
759
Karl Barth 18861968
773
Martin Niemöller 18921984
786
Dietrich Bonhoeffer 190645
801
The Kerygmatic Presence of Christ
823
Helmut Thielicke 190886
836
Klaas Schilder 18901952
856
Lázsló Ravasz 18821975
864
chapter xii
873
William Temple 18811944
888
Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy 18831929
900
William Sangster 19001960
927
David Martyn LloydJones 18991981
935
Bibliography
953
Index
985
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Hughes Oliphant Old (1933-2016) was John H. Leith Professor of Reformed Theology and Dean of the Institute for Reformed Worship, Erskine Theological Seminary, Columbia, South Carolina.

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