A History of Preaching, Vol. 2

by Edwin Charles Dargan

Publisher:

Hodder and Stoughton

, 1912

Overview

This long-awaited second volume was published five years after the first one was completed in 1907, due to Dargan accepting a pastorate at First Baptist Church in Georgia. Picking up where he left off in the first volume, Dargan begins with the end of the sixteenth century. He narrows his focus in this volume to specific countries and various styles of preaching. Still attentive to the influence on preaching from art, literature, politics, and education, Dargan presents valuable historical content and context for preaching right up until the end of the nineteenth century.

Contents

• Chapter 1: Preaching in Europe at the End of the Sixteenth Century
• Chapter 2: Preaching in Southern Europe During the Seventeenth Century
• Chapter 3: Seventeenth Century Preaching in Germany and Northern Europe
• Chapter 4: The Classic Age of the French Pulpit
• Chapter 5: The Classic Age of the British Pulpit
• Chapter 6: General View of the Eighteenth Century, Catholic Preaching in Southern Europe
• Chapter 7: German Preaching in the Eighteenth Century
• Chapter 8: French Preaching in the Eighteenth Century
• Chapter 9: Dutch and Scandinavian Preaching in the Eighteenth Century
• Chapter 10: British Preaching in the Eighteenth Century
• Chapter 11: Preaching in the Nineteenth Century, The Pulpit of Southern Europe
• Chapter 12: The German Pulpit of the Nineteenth Century
• Chapter 13: The Dutch and Scandinavian Pulpit of the Nineteenth Century
• Chapter 14: The French Pulpit of the Nineteenth Century
• Chapter 15: The British Pulpit of the Nineteenth Century
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index

Top Highlights

“eighteenth century was Franz Hunolt (d. about 1740 or” (Page 211)

“The rebuke of evil is virile and sometimes rude, and the struggles of the time called forth a sharpness of polemic not always consonant with Christian love. The easy morals of some elements of society were also reflected in a few of the clergy of the epoch, though sternly reproved in others.” (Page 138)

“We must now retrace our steps from the beginning of the century, taking up in similar manner the notable series of dissenting preachers, who were the contemporaries, the rivals, and in many cases the equals of their brethren of the Established Church.” (Page 168)

“third great culmination—the powerful Catholic preaching of the thirteenth century” (Page 8)

“more attention was given both to analytic and synthetic form.” (Page 12)

Product Details

• Title: A History of Preaching, Vol. 2
• Author: Edwin Charles Dargan
• Series: A History of Preaching
• Publisher: George H. Doran Company
• Publication Date: 1912
• Pages: 604

About Edwin Charles Dargan

Edwin Charles Dargan (1852–1930) served as a pastor at numerous churches and taught homiletics for 15 years at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of Commentary on the Epistle to the Colossians and A History of Preaching.