Select Bibliography

(For quotation references see the notes following each chapter; full details of books quoted are given only here.)

Alexander, James W., Thoughts on Preaching (1864; Banner of Truth reprint, 1975).

Allmen, Jean-Jacques von, Preaching and Congregation (French original 1955; Lutterworth, 1962).

Bavinck, J. H., An Introduction to the Science of Missions (Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., 1960).

Baxter, Richard, The Reformed Pastor (1656; Epworth second edition revised by John T. Wilkinson, 1950).

Beecher, Henry Ward, Lectures on Preaching: Personal Elements in Preaching, the 1872 Yale Lectures (Nelson, 1872).

Bernard, Richard, The Faithfull Shepheard (London 1607).

Black, James, The Mystery of Preaching, the 1923 Warrack and Sprunt Lectures (James Clarke, 1924; revised edition, Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1977).

Blackwood, Andrew W., The Preparation of Sermons (Abingdon, 1948 ; Church Book Room Press, 1951).

Brilioth, Bishop Yngve, Landmarks in the History of Preaching, the 1949 Donellan Lectures in Dublin (S.P.C.K., 1950).

Broadus, John A., On the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons (1870; new and revised edition by J. B. Weatherspoon, Harper, 1944).

Brooks, Phillips, Lectures on Preaching, the 1877 Yale Lectures (Dutton, 1877; Allenson, 1895; Baker, 1969).

Brunner, Emil, The Word and the World (S.C.M., 1931).

Buttrick, George A., Jesus Came Preaching, Christian Preaching in the New Age, the 1931 Yale Lectures (Scribner, 1931).

Bull, Paul B., Lectures on Preaching and Sermon Construction (S.P.C.K., 1922).

Coggan, F. Donald, Stewards of Grace (Hodder & Stoughton, 1958).

Crum, Milton, Manual on Preaching, a new process of sermon development (Judson, 1977).

Dale, R. W., Nine Lectures on Preaching, the 1876 Yale Lectures (Hodder & Stoughton, 1877; Barnes, 1878; Doran, New York, 1900).

Dargan, Edwin Charles, A History of Preaching, Vol. 1 A.D. 70—1572 (Hodder & Stoughton and G. H. Doran, 1905), Vol. II A.D. 1572—1900 (Hodder & Stoughton and G. H. Doran 1912).

Davies, Horton, Varieties of English Preaching 1900—1960 (S.C.M. and Prentice-Hall, 1963).

Davis, H. Grady, Design for Preaching (Fortress, 1958).

Fant, Clyde E., Bonhoeffer: Worldly Preaching (Nelson, 1975. Includes Bonhoeffer’s Finkenwalde Lectures on Homiletics 1935—39).

Ferris, Theodore Parker, Go Tell the People, the 1950 George Craig Stewart Lectures on Preaching (Scribner, 1951).

Ford, D. W. Cleverley, An Expository Preacher’s Notebook (Hodder & Stoughton, 1960).

Forsyth, P. T., Positive Preaching and the Modern Mind (Independent Press, 1907).

Gillett, David, How Do Congregations Learn? (Grove Booklet on Ministry and Worship No. 67, 1979).

Hall, Thor, The Future Shape of Preaching (Fortress, 1971).

Herbert, George, A Priest to the Temple or The Country Parson, his Character and Rule of Holy Life (written 1632, published 1652; ed. H. C. Beeching, Blackwell, 1898).

Home, Charles Silvester, The Romance of Preaching, the 1914 Yale Lectures (James Clarke and Revell, 1914).

Huxtable, John, The Preacher’s Integrity and other lectures (Epworth, 1966).

Jowett, J. H., The Preacher: his life and work, the 1912 Yale Lectures (G. H. Doran, New York, 1912).

Keir, Thomas H., The Word in Worship (O.U.P., 1962).

Lloyd-Jones, D. Martyn, Preaching and Preachers (Hodder & Stoughton, 1971; Zondervan, 1972).

Mahaffy, Sir John Pentland, The Decay of Modern Preaching (Macmillan, 1882).

Martin, Al, What’s Wrong with Preaching Today? (Banner of Truth, 1968).

Mather, Cotton, Student and Preacher, or Directions for a Candidate of the Ministry (1726; Hindmarsh, London, 1789).

McGregor, W. M., The Making of a Preacher, the 1942-3 Warrack Lectures (S.C.M., 1945).

McWilliam, Stuart W., Called to Preach (St. Andrew Press, 1969).

Miller, Donald G., Fire in Thy Mouth (Abingdon, 1954).

Mitchell, Henry H., Black Preaching (1970; second edition Harper & Row, 1979).

Morgan, G. Campbell, Preaching (1937; Baker Book House reprint 1974).

Morris, Colin, The Word and the Words (Epworth, 1975).

Neill, S. C., On the Ministry (S.C.M., 1952).

Perkins, William, The Art of Prophecying or ‘A Treatise concerning the sacred and onely true manner and methode of preaching’, being Vol. II (1631) of The Workes of that Famous and Worthy Minister of Christ in the Universitie of Cambridge, Mr. William Perkins (John Legatt and John Haviland, London, 3 Vols. 1631-5).

Perry, Lloyd M., Biblical Preaching for Today’s World (Moody Press, 1973).

Phelps, Austin, Men and Books or Lectures Introductory for the Theory of Preaching (Dickinson, 1882).

Pitt-Watson, Ian, A Kind of Folly, Toward a Practical Theology of Preaching, the 1972—5 Warrack Lectures, (St. Andrew Press, 1976; Westminster, 1978).

Poulton, John, A Today Sort of Evangelism (Lutterworth, 1972).

Quayle, William A., The Pastor-Preacher (1910; Baker 1979).

Rahner, Karl, (ed.). The Renewal of Preaching— theory and practice, Vol. 33 of Concilium, (Paulist Press, New York, 1968).

Ramsey, Michael, The Christian Priest Today (Mowbray, 1972).

Read, David H. C., The Communication of the Gospel, the 1951 Warrack Lectures (S.C.M., 1952).

Reid, Clyde, The Empty Pulpit, a Study in Preaching as Communication (Harper & Row, 1967).

Robinson, Haddon W., Biblical Preaching, the development and delivery of expository messages (Baker, 1980).

Sangster, W. E., The Craft of Sermon Illustration (1946; incorporated in The Craft of the Sermon, Epworth, 1954).

Simpson, Matthew, Lectures on Preaching (Phillips & Hunt, New York, 1879).

Smyth, Charles, The Art of Preaching, a Practical Survey of Preaching in the Church of England 747-1939 (S.P.C.K., 1940).

Spurgeon, C. H., An All-Round Ministry, a collection of addresses to ministers and students, 1900 (Banner of Truth, 1960).

Stalker, James, The Preacher and his Models, the 1891 Yale Lectures (Hodder & Stoughton, 1891).

Stewart, James S., A Faith to Proclaim, the 1953 Yale Lectures (Scribner’s, 1953). Heralds of God, the 1946 Warrack Lectures (Hodder & Stoughton, 1946).

Sweazey, George E., Preaching the Good News (Prentice-Hall, 1976).

Terwilliger, Robert E., Receiving the Word of God (Morehouse-Barlow, 1960).

Tizard, Leslie J., Preaching - The Art of Communication (George Allen & Unwin, 1958).

Turnbull, Ralph G., A Minister’s Obstacles (1946; Baker Book House edition, 1972).

Vinet, A., Homiletics or The Theory of Preaching (English translation from French, T. and T. Clark, 1853).

Volbeda, Samuel, The Pastoral Genius of Preaching (Zondervan, 1960).

Wand, William, Letters on Preaching (Hodder & Stoughton, 1974).

Ward, Ronald A., Royal Sacrament, The Preacher and his Message (Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1958).

Welsh, Clement, Preaching in a New Key, studies in the psychology of thinking and listening (Pilgrim Press, 1974).

White, R. E. O., A Guide to Preaching, a practical primer of homiletics (Pickering & Inglis, 1973).

Wilkins, John, Bishop of Chester, Ecclesiastes or ‘A discourse concerning the gift of Preaching, as it falls under the Rules of Art, showing the most proper Rules and Directions, for Method, Invention, Books, Expression whereby a Minister may be furnished with such abilities as may make him a Workman that need not to be ashamed’ 1646, third edition, 1651.

Williams, Howard, My Word, Christian Preaching Today (S.C.M., 1973).

Wingren, Gustaf, The Living Word (1949, English translation S.C.M., 1960).

Berlo, David K., The Process of Communication, an introduction to theory and practice (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1960).

Broadcasting, Society and the Church, report of the Broadcasting Commission of the General Synod of the Church of England (Church Information Office, 1973).

Children and Television, a national survey among 7-17 year olds (1978) commissioned by Pye Limited, Cambridge.

Evans, Christopher, The Mighty Micro, the Impact of the Microchip Revolution (1979, Hodder & Stoughton Coronet edition, 1980).

Freire, Paulo, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Penguin, 1972). The Future of Broadcasting, the Annan Report (H.M.S.O., London 1977).

Gowers, Sir Ernest, The Complete Plain Words (incorporating both Plain Words and The ABC of Plain Words, H.M.S.O., London, 1954).

Hirsch, E. D., Validity in Interpretation (Yale University Press, 1967).

Lewis, C. S., Studies in Words (Cambridge University Press, 1960).

McGinniss, Joe, The Selling of the President 1968 (Trident Press, 1969; Pocket Books 1970).

McLuhan, Marshall, The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (Routledge, 1962).

Miller, Jonathan, McLuhan in the ‘Fontana Modern Masters’ series (Collins, 1971).

Muggeridge, Malcolm, Christ and the Media, the 1976 London Lectures in Contemporary Christianity (Hodder & Stoughton, 1977; Eerdmans, 1978).

Packard, Vance, The Hidden Persuaders, an introduction to the techniques of mass-persuasion through the unconscious (David McKay, 1957, Penguin 1960).

Reid, Gavin, The Gagging of God, the failure of the church to communicate in the television age (Hodder & Stoughton, 1969).

Screen Violence and Film Censorship, Home Office Research Study No. 40, (H.M.S.O., London, 1977).

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, One Word of Truth, the 1970 Nobel Speech on Literature (Bodley Head, 1972; Farrer, Strausz & Giroux, 1970).

Thiselton, Anthony, Two Horizons (Paternoster, 1980; Eerdmans, 1980).

The Willowbank Report on Gospel and Culture, Lausanne Occasional Paper No. 2 (1978), also published in Explaining the Gospel in Today’s World (Scripture Union 1979).

Winn, Marie, The Plug-In Drug, television, children and the family (Viking Press, New York, 1977).

Bainton, Roland H., Erasmus of Christendom (1969; Collins, 1970).

Barbour, G. F., The Life of Alexander Whyte (Hodder & Stoughton, 1923).

Beavan, Peter, Klemperisms (Cock Robin Press, 1974).

Bosanquet, Mary, The Life and Death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Hodder & Stoughton, 1968).

Cadier, Jean, The Man God Mastered, a brief biography of John Calvin, translated by O. R. Johnston (Inter-Varsity Fellowship, 1960).

Carlyle, Thomas, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1841; third edition, London, 1846).

Carus, William (ed.), Memoirs of the Rev. Charles Simeon, (Hatchard, 1847).

Chorley, E. Clowes, Men and Movements in the American Episcopal Church, the Hale Lectures (Scribner, New York, 1946).

Colquhoun, Frank, Haringay Story (Hodder & Stoughton, 1955).

Day, Richard Elsworth, The Shadow of the Broad Brim, the life-story of Charles Haddon Spurgeon (Judson Press, 1934).

Dillistone, F. W., Charles Raven (Hodder & Stoughton, 1975).

Dwight, S. E., The Life of President Edwards (Carvill, New York, 1830), being Vol. 1 of The Works of President Edwards in 10 Vols.

Gammie, Alexander, Preachers I Have Heard (Pickering & Inglis, 1945).

Haller, William, The Rise of Puritanism (Columbia University Press, New York, 1938).

Harford, J. B., and MacDonald, F. C., Bishop Handley Moule (Hodder & Stoughton, 1922).

Haslam, W., From Death into Life (Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1880).

Hennell, Michael, John Venn and the Clapham Sect (Lutterworth, 1958).

Henson, H. Hensley, Robertson of Brighton 1816-1853 (Smith, Elder, 1916).

Hopkins, Hugh Evan, Charles Simeon of Cambridge (Hodder & Stoughton, 1977).

Inge, W. R., Diary of a Dean, St. Paul’s 1911-34 (Hutchinson, 1949).

Jones, Edgar De Witt, American Preachers of Today, intimate appraisals of thirty-two leaders (Bobbs-Merrill, 1933).

Keefe, Carolyn, (ed.), C. S. Lewis, Speaker and Teacher, a symposium (Zondervan, 1971, Hodder & Stoughton, 1974).

King, Coretta Scott, My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr. (Hodder & Stoughton, 1970; Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1969).

Moorman, J. R. H., A History of the Church of England (A. & C. Black, 1953).

Morgan, Irvonwy, The Godly Preachers of the Elizabethan Church (Epworth, 1965).

Muggeridge, Malcolm, Chronicles of Wasted Time: Part 1 The Green Stick (Collins, 1972).

Nicoll, W. Robertson, Princes of the Church (Hodder & Stoughton, 1921).

Paget, Elma K., Henry Luke Paget, Portrait and Frame (Longman, 1939).

Pollock, John C., George Whitefield and the Great Awakening (Hodder & Stoughton, 1973).

Rupp, Ernest Gordon, Luther’s Progress to the Diet of Worms 1521 (S.C.M., 1951).

Ryle, J. C., The Christian Leaders of the Last Century or England a Hundred Years Ago (Thynne, 1868. New edition).

Sangster, Paul, Doctor Sangster (Epworth, 1962).

Simpson, J. G., Preachers and Teachers (Edward Arnold, 1910).

Smyth, Charles, Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York (Hodder & Stoughton, 1959).

Warren, M. A. C., Crowded Canvas (Hodder & Stoughton, 1974).

Wesley, John, Journal, abridged by Nehemiah Curnock (Epworth, 1949).

White, Paul, Alias Jungle Doctor, An Autobiography (Paternoster, 1977).

Whitley, Elizabeth, Plain Mr. Knox (Scottish Reformation Society, 1960).

Wiersbe, Warren, Walking with the Giant, a minister’s guide to good reading and great preaching (Baker 1976).

Williams, W., Personal Reminscences of Charles Haddon Spurgeon (Religious Tract Society, 1895).

Woodforde, James, The Diary of a Country Parson 1758-1802. Edited by John Beresford in 5 Vols. (O.U.P. 1926-31).

Abbott, Walter M. (ed.), The Documents of Vatican II (Geoffrey Chapman,1967).

Barth, Karl, The Word of God and the Word of Man, a collection of addresses first published in German in 1928. (Hodder & Stoughton, 1935; Peter Smith, 1958).

Baxter, Richard, Poetical Fragments (1681; Gregg International Publishers, 1971).

Berger, Peter L., Facing up to Modernity (Basic Books, New York, 1977).

Blamires, Harry, The Christian Mind (S.P.C.K., 1963).

Bounds, E. M., Power through Prayer (Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1912).

Calvin, John, Institutes of the Christian Religion, first published 1536; completed 1959. (translated by F. L. Battler, in The Library of Christian Classics, Vols. 20 and 21, S.C.M. and Westminster, 1960).

Chrysostom: Works of St. Chrysostom. In Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. X (Eerdmans, 1975).

Coggan, Donald, Convictions (Hodder & Stoughton, 1975; paperback 1978).

The Didache. In Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VII (1886. Eerdmans 1975).

Eliot, George, Scenes of Clerical Life (1858; Penguin 1973).

Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History (S.P.C.K., 1928).

Golding, William, Free Fall (Faber, 1959; Harcourt Brace, 1962).

Fant, Clyde E., and Pinson, William M., (eds.), Twenty Centuries of Great Preaching, 13 Vols. (Word Books, 1971).

Glover T. R., The Jesus of History (S.C.M. 1917; Hodder & Stoughton, 1965).

Green, E. M. B., The Truth of God Incarnate (Hodder & Stoughton, 1977).

Grubb, Kenneth G., A Layman Looks at the Church (Hodder & Stoughton, 1964).

Henson, Hensley H., Church and Parson in England (Hodder & Stoughton, 1927).

Hernandez, José, The Gaucho (Part 1 1872, Part 2 1879. English translation by Walter Owen 1935; bilingual edition Editorial Pampa 1967).

Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses, Book IV, Ch. 26 (circa A.D. 200). In Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 1 (1886; Eerdmans, 1962).

Justin Martyr, The First Apology, (circa. A.D. 150). In Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 1 (1886; Eerdmans, 1962).

Knox, Ronald, Essays in Satire (Sheed & Ward, 1928; new edition 1954).

Latimer: Select Sermons and Letters of Dr. Hugh Latimer (R.T.S. und.)

Leacock, Stephen, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (McLelland & Stewart, 1948).

Lehmann, Helmut T. (ed.), Luther’s Works (Fortress Press, 1965).

Lewis, W. H. (ed.), Letters of C. S. Lewis (Geoffrey Bles, 1966).

Luther’s Table-Talk, 1566 (Captain Henry Bell, 1886).

Luther’s Works (Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, 1956).

Manning, Bernard L., A Layman in the Ministry (Independent Press, 1942).

Maugham, Somerset, The Moon and Sixpence (Penguin, 1919).

Melville, Herman, Moby Dick or The Whale (1851; Penguin, 1972).

Parker, J. H. (ed.), A Library of Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church (O.U.P., 1843).

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Ramsey, Arthur Michael, and Suenens, Leon-Joseph, The Future of the Christian Church (S.C.M., 1971).

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Simeon, Charles, Horae Homileticae, or Discourses (in the form of skeletons) upon the whole Scriptures, in 11 Vols., 1819- 20. Also An Appendix to the Horae Homileticae in 6 Vols., 1828. (Richard Watts, 1819-28).

Spurgeon, C. H., Twelve Sermons on the Holy Spirit (Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1937; Baker, 1973).

Stewart, James S., A Man in Christ (Hodder & Stoughton, 1935; revised edition 1972; Baker, 1975).

Tertullian, The Apology (circa A.D. 200). In Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 3 (1885; Eerdmans, 1973).

Toffler, Alvin, Future Shock (Bodley Head, 1970; Random, 1970).

Trollope, Anthony, Barchester Towers (1857; J. M. Dent, Everyman’s Library, 1906).

Trueblood, Elton, The Humour of Christ (Harper & Row, 1964; Darton, Longman & Todd, 1965).

Twain, Mark, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876; Pan Books 1965).

Walsh, Chad, Campus Gods on Trial (Macmillan 1962).

Welsby, Paul A. (ed.), Sermons and Society, an Anglican Anthology (Penguin, 1970).

Wesley, John, Sermons on Several Occasions, published in 4 Vols. 1746-60 (Epworth, 1944).