Select Bibliography
1. Books on Ministry and Preaching
Alexander, James W. Thoughts on Preaching.1864; London: Banner of Truth, 1975.
Allmen, Jean-Jacques von, Preaching and Congregation. French original 1955; Cambridge: Lutterworth, 1962.
Bavinck, J. H. An Introduction to the Science of Missions. Nutley, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing, 1960.
Baxter, Richard. The Reformed Pastor. 1656; 2nd ed. rev. John T. Wilkinson, Norwich: Epworth, 1950.
Beecher, Henry Ward, Lectures on Preaching: Personal Elements in Preaching. The 1872 Yale Lectures. Edinburgh: Nelson, 1872.
Bernard, Richard. The Faithfull Shepheard. London 1607.
Black, James. The Mystery of Preaching. The 1923 Warrack and Sprunt Lectures. Cambridge: James Clarke, 1924; rev. ed., London: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1977.
Blackwood, Andrew W. The Preparation of Sermons. Nashville: Abingdon, 1948; London: Church Book Room Press, 1951.
Brilioth, Yngve. Landmarks in the History of Preaching. The 1949 Donellan Lectures in Dublin. London: SPCK, 1950.
Broadus, John A. On the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons. 1870; new and rev. ed. J. B. Weatherspoon, New York: Harper, 1944.
———. Lectures on the History of Preaching. 1876; New York: Armstrong, 1899.
Brooks, Phillips. Lectures on Preaching. The 1877 Yale Lectures. Dutton, 1877; Allenson, 1895; Grand Rapids: Baker, 1969.
———. Essays and Addresses: Religious, Literary and Social. Edited by John Cotton Brooks. London: Macmillan, 1894.
Brunner, Emil. The Word and the World. London: SCM, 1931.
Buttrick, George A. Jesus Came Preaching: Christian Preaching in the New Age. The 1931 Yale Lectures. New York: Scribner, 1931.
Bull, Paul B. Lectures on Preaching and Sermon Construction. London: SPCK, 1922.
Coggan, F. Donald. Stewards of Grace. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1958.
———. On Preaching. London: SPCK, 1978.
Crum, Milton. Manual on Preaching: A New Process of Sermon Development. Valley Forge, PA: Judson, 1977.
Dale, R. W. Nine Lectures on Preaching. The 1876 Yale Lectures. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1877; New York: Barnes, 1878; New York: Doran, 1900.
Dargan, Edwin Charles. A History of Preaching, Vol. 1 A.D. 70–1572. London: Hodder & Stoughton and G. H. Doran, 1905. Vol. II A.D. 1572–1900. London: Hodder & Stoughton and G. H. Doran 1912.
Davies, Horton. Varieties of English Preaching 1900–1960. London: SCM and Prentice-Hall, 1963.
Davis, H. Grady. Design for Preaching. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1958.
Fant, Clyde E. Bonhoeffer: Worldly Preaching. Includes Bonhoeffer’s Finkenwalde Lectures on Homiletics 1935–39. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1975.
Ferris, Theodore Parker. Go Tell the People. The 1950 George Craig Stewart Lectures on Preaching. New York: Scribner, 1951.
Ford, Douglas W. Cleverley. An Expository Preacher’s Notebook. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1960.
———. A Theological Preacher’s Notebook. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1962.
———. A Pastoral Preacher’s Notebook. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1965.
———. Preaching Today. London: Epworth and SPCK, 1969.
———. The Ministry of the Word. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1979.
Forsyth, P. T. Positive Preaching and the Modern Mind. New York: A. C. Armstrong and Sons, 1907.
Gillett, David, How Do Congregations Learn? Grove Booklet on Ministry and Worship No. 67, 1979.
Hall, Thor. The Future Shape of Preaching. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1971.
Herbert, George. A Priest to the Temple or The Country Parson, His Character and Rule of Holy Life. 1632, published 1652; edited by H. C. Beeching, London: Blackwell, 1898.
Horne, Charles Silvester. The Romance of Preaching. The 1914 Yale Lectures. Cambridge: James Clarke; Grand Rapids: Revell, 1914.
Huxtable, John. The Preacher’s Integrity and Other Lectures. Norwich: Epworth, 1966.
Jowett, J. H. The Preacher: His Life and Work. The 1912 Yale Lectures. New York: G. H. Doran, 1912.
Keir, Thomas H. The Word in Worship. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1962.
Lloyd-Jones, D. Martyn. Preaching and Preachers. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1971; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1972.
———. The Christian Warfare: An Exposition of Ephesians 6:10–13. London: Banner of Truth; Grand Rapids: Baker, 1976.
Luccock, Halford E. Communicating the Gospel. The Lyman Beecher Lectureship on Preaching at Yale Divinity School. New York: Harpers, 1954.
Mahaffy, Sir John Pentland. The Decay of Modern Preaching. London: Macmillan, 1882.
Martin, Al. What’s Wrong with Preaching Today? London: Banner of Truth, 1968.
Mather, Cotton. Student and Preacher, or Directions for a Candidate of the Ministry. 1726; London: Hindmarsh, 1789.
McGregor, W. M. The Making of a Preacher. The 1942–43 Warrack Lectures. London: SCM, 1945.
McWilliam, Stuart W. Called to Preach. Edinburgh: St. Andrew Press, 1969.
Miller, Donald G. Fire in Thy Mouth. Nashville: Abingdon, 1954.
Mitchell, Henry H. Black Preaching. 1970; 2nd ed., New York: Harper & Row, 1979.
———. The Recovery of Preaching. New York: Harper & Row, 1977; London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1979.
Morgan, G. Campbell. Preaching. 1937; Grand Rapids: Baker, 1974.
Morris, Colin. The Word and the Words. Norwich: Epworth, 1975.
Neill, Stephen C. On the Ministry. London: SCM, 1952.
Perkins, William. The Art of Prophecying or “A Treatise concerning the sacred and onely true manner and methode of preaching.” Vol. 2 (1631) of The Workes of that Famous and Worthy Minister of Christ in the Universitie of Cambridge, Mr. William Perkins. 3 vols. London: John Legatt and John Haviland, 1631–35.
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. New York: Scribner, 1882.
Pitt-Watson, Ian. A Kind of Folly: Toward a Practical Theology of Preaching. The 1972–75 Warrack Lectures. Edinburgh: St. Andrew Press, 1976; Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1978.
Poulton, John. A Today Sort of Evangelism. Cambridge: Lutterworth, 1972.
Quayle, William A. The Pastor-Preacher. 1910; Grand Rapids: Baker, 1979.
Rahner, Karl, ed. The Renewal of Preaching: Theory and Practice. Vol. 33 of Concilium. New York: Paulist Press, 1968.
Ramsey, Michael. The Christian Priest Today. London: Mowbray, 1972.
Read, David H. C. The Communication of the Gospel. The 1951 Warrack Lectures. London: SCM, 1952.
Reid, Clyde. The Empty Pulpit: A Study in Preaching as Communication. New York: Harper & Row, 1967.
Robinson, Haddon W. Biblical Preaching: The Development and Delivery of Expository Messages. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1980.
Sangster, William E. The Craft of the Sermon, Norwich: Epworth, 1954.
———. The Craft of Sermon Illustration. 1946; in The Craft of the Sermon, Norwich: Epworth, 1954.
———. The Craft of Sermon Construction. 1949; in The Craft of the Sermon, Norwich: Epworth, 1954.
———. The Approach to Preaching. Norwich: Epworth, 1951.
———. Power in Preaching. Norwich: Epworth, 1958.
Simpson, Matthew. Lectures on Preaching. New York: Phillips & Hunt, 1879.
Smyth, Charles. The Art of Preaching: A Practical Survey of Preaching in the Church of England 747–1939. London: SPCK, 1940.
Spurgeon, Charles Haddon. An All-Round Ministry: A Collection of Addresses to Ministers and Students. 1900; London: Banner of Truth, 1960.
———. Lectures to My Students. 3 vols. London: Passmore and Alabaster, 1st series 1881; 2nd series 1882; 3rd series 1894; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1980.
Stalker, James. The Preacher and His Models. The 1891 Yale Lectures. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1891.
Stewart, James S. Heralds of God. The 1946 Warrack Lectures. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1946.
———. A Faith to Proclaim. The 1953 Yale Lectures. New York: Scribner, 1953.
Sweazey, George E. Preaching the Good News. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1976.
Terwilliger, Robert E. Receiving the Word of God. New York: Morehouse-Barlow, 1960.
Tizard, Leslie J. Preaching: The Art of Communication. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1958.
Turnbull, Ralph G. A Minister’s Obstacles. 1946; Grand Rapids: Baker, 1972.
Vinet, A. Homiletics or The Theory of Preaching. English translation from French, New York: T&T Clark, 1853.
Volbeda, Samuel. The Pastoral Genius of Preaching. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1960.
Wand, William. Letters on Preaching. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1974.
Ward, Ronald A. Royal Sacrament: The Preacher and His Message. London: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1958.
Welsh, Clement. Preaching in a New Key: Studies in the Psychology of Thinking and Listening. Plymouth, MA: Pilgrim, 1974.
White, R. E. O. A Guide to Preaching: A Practical Primer of Homiletics. London: Pickering & Inglis; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans: 1973.
Wilkins, John, 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, 3rd ed., 1651.
Williams, Howard. My Word. Christian Preaching Today. London: SCM, 1973.
Wingren, Gustaf. The Living Word. 1949; English translation London: SCM, 1960.
2. Books on Communication and the Media
Berlo, David K. The Process of Communication: An Introduction to Theory and Practice. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1960.
Broadcasting, Society and the Church. Report of the Broadcasting Commission of the General Synod of the Church of England. London: Church Information Office, 1973.
Children and Television: A National Survey among 7–17 Year Olds. Commissioned by Pye Limited, Cambridge, 1978.
Evans, Christopher. The Mighty Micro: The Impact of the Microchip Revolution. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1980.
Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Translated by Myra Bergman Ramos. London: Penguin, 1972.
The Future of Broadcasting. The Annan Report. London: H.M.S.O., 1977.
Gowers, Sir Ernest. The Complete Plain Words, incorporating both Plain Words and The ABC of Plain Words. London: H.M.S.O., 1954.
Hirsch, E. D. Validity in Interpretation. Newhaven, CT: Yale University Press, 1967.
Lewis, C. S. Studies in Words. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1960.
McGinniss, Joe. The Selling of the President 1968. New York: Trident Press, 1969; New York: Pocket Books, 1970.
McLuhan, Marshall. The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962.
———. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. London: Routledge, 1964; Abacus, 1973.
———, with Quentin Fiore. The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects. London: Penguin, 1967.
Miller, Jonathan. McLuhan. The Fontana Modern Masters Series. London: Collins, 1971.
Muggeridge, Malcolm. Christ and the Media. The 1976 London Lectures in Contemporary Christianity. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1977; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1978.
Packard, Vance. The Hidden Persuaders: An Introduction to the Techniques of Mass-persuasion through the Unconscious. New York: David McKay, 1957; London: Penguin, 1960.
Reid, Gavin. The Gagging of God: The Failure of the Church to Communicate in the Television Age. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1969.
Screen Violence and Film Censorship. Home Office Research Study No. 40. London: H.M.S.O., 1977.
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander. One Word of Truth: The 1970 Nobel Speech on Literature. New York: Farrer, Strausz & Giroux, 1970; London: Bodley Head, 1972.
Thiselton, Anthony. Two Horizons. Exeter: Paternoster; Grand Rapids: 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. Milton Keynes: Scripture Union, 1979.
Winn, Marie. The Plug-In Drug: Television, Children, and the Family. New York: Viking, 1977.
3. Historical, Biographical, and Autobiographical
Bainton, Roland H. Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1951; New American Library, 1957.
———. Erasmus of Christendom. London: Collins, 1970.
Barbour, G. F. The Life of Alexander Whyte. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1923.
Beavan, Peter. Klemperisms: A Few of Dr. Klemperer’s Lighter Moments. Devon: Cock Robin Press, 1974.
Bosanquet, Mary. The Life and Death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1968.
Cadier, Jean. The Man God Mastered: A Brief Biography of John Calvin. Translated by O. R. Johnston. London: Inter-Varsity Fellowship; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1960.
Carlyle, Thomas. Heroes and Hero-Worship. 1841; 3rd ed., London, 1846.
Carus, William, ed. Memoirs of the Rev. Charles Simeon. London: Hatchard, 1847.
Chorley, E. Clowes. Men and Movements in the American Episcopal Church. The Hale Lectures. New York: Scribner, 1946.
Colquhoun, Frank. Haringay Story. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1955.
Day, Richard Elsworth. The Shadow of the Broad Brim: The Life-story of Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Valley Forge, PA: Judson, 1934.
Dillistone, F. W. Charles Raven. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1975.
Dwight, S. E. The Life of President Edwards. Vol. 1 of The Works of President Edwards in 10 vols. New York: Carvill, 1830.
Gammie, Alexander. Preachers I Have Heard. Glasgow: Pickering & Inglis, 1945.
Haller, William. The Rise of Puritanism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1938.
Harford, J. B., and F. C. MacDonald. Bishop Handley Moule. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1922.
Haslam, William. From Death into Life. London: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1880.
Hennell, Michael. John Venn and the Clapham Sect. Cambridge: Lutterworth, 1958.
Henson, H. Hensley. Robertson of Brighton 1816–1853. London: Smith, Elder, 1916.
———. Retrospect of an Unimportant Life. 3 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, vol. 1, 1942; vol. 2, 1943; vol. 3, 1950.
Hopkins, Hugh Evan. Charles Simeon of Cambridge. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1977.
Inge, W. R. Diary of a Dean: St. Paul’s 1911–34. London: Hutchinson, 1949.
Jones, Edgar De Witt. American Preachers of Today: Intimate Appraisals of Thirty-two Leaders. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1933.
Kamm, Josephine. Men Who Served Africa. London: George G. Harrap, 1957.
Keefe, Carolyn, ed. C. S. Lewis, Speaker and Teacher: A Symposium. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1971; London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1974.
King, Coretta Scott. My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1969; London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1970.
Moorman, J. R. H. A History of the Church of England. London: A. & C. Black, 1953.
Morgan, Irvonwy. The Godly Preachers of the Elizabethan Church. Norwich: Epworth, 1965.
Muggeridge, Malcolm. Chronicles of Wasted Time. Part 1 The Green Stick. London: Collins, 1972.
Nicoll, W. Robertson. Princes of the Church. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1921.
Paget, Elma K. Henry Luke Paget, Portrait and Frame. London: Longmans, Green, 1939.
Pollock, John C. George Whitefield and the Great Awakening. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1973.
———. Wilberforce. London: Constable, 1977; Belleville, MI: Lion, 1978.
———. Amazing Grace. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1981.
Rupp, Ernest Gordon. Luther’s Progress to the Diet of Worms 1521. London: SCM, 1951.
Ryle, J. C. The Christian Leaders of the Last Century or England a Hundred Years Ago. New ed., London: Thynne, 1868.
———. Light from Old Times. London: Thynne & Jarvis, 1924.
Sangster, Paul. Doctor Sangster. Norwich: Epworth, 1962.
Simpson, J. G. Preachers and Teachers. London: Edward Arnold, 1910.
Smyth, Charles. Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1959.
Warren, Max A. C. Crowded Canvas. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1974.
Wesley, John. Journal. Abridged by Nehemiah Curnock. Norwich: Epworth, 1949.
White, Paul. Alias Jungle Doctor: An Autobiography. Exeter: Paternoster, 1977.
Whitley, Elizabeth. Plain Mr. Knox. Edinburgh: Scottish Reformation Society, 1960.
Wiersbe, Warren. Walking with the Giant: A Minister’s Guide to Good Reading and Great Preaching. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1976.
Williams, W. Personal Reminiscences of Charles Haddon Spurgeon. London: Religious Tract Society, 1895.
Woodforde, James. The Diary of a Country Parson 1758–1802. Edited by John Beresford. 5 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1926–31.
Abbott, Walter M., ed. The Documents of Vatican II. London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1967.
Barth, Karl. The Word of God and the Word of Man: A Collection of Addresses First Published in German in 1928. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1935; Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1958.
Baxter, Richard, Poetical Fragments. 1681; Farnborough: Gregg International, 1971.
Berger, Peter L. Facing Up to Modernity. New York: Basic Books, 1977.
Blamires, Harry. The Christian Mind. London: SPCK, 1963.
Bounds, E. M. Power through Prayer. London: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1912.
Calvin, John. Institutes of the Christian Religion. 1536–59. Translated by F. L. Battles. The Library of Christian Classics, vols. 20 and 21. London: SCM; Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1960.
Chrysostom, John. Works of St. Chrysostom. In Schaff, Philip, ed. The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers. Vol. 10. 1892, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans 1975. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975.
Coggan, Donald. Convictions. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1975; paperback 1978.
———. The Didache. In Ante-Nicene Fathers. Vol. 7. 1886; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans 1975.
Eliot, George. Scenes of Clerical Life. 1858; London: Penguin, 1973.
Eusebius. Ecclesiastical History. London: SPCK, 1928.
Fant, Clyde E., and William M. Pinson, eds. Twenty Centuries of Great Preaching. 13 vols. Waco: Word, 1971.
Glover T. R. The Jesus of History. London: SCM 1917; London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1965.
Golding, William. Free Fall. London: Faber & Faber, 1959; New York: Harcourt Brace, 1962.
Green, E. M. B. The Truth of God Incarnate. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1977.
Grubb, Kenneth G. A Layman Looks at the Church. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1964.
Henson, Hensley H. Church and Parson in England. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1927.
Hernandez, Jose. The Gaucho Martin Fierro. Part 1, 1872; Part 2, 1879. English translation by Walter Owen 1935. Bilingual ed. New York: State University of New York Press, 1967.
Irenaeus. Adversus Haereses. Book IV, Ch. 26 (circa A.D. 200). In Ante-Nicene Fathers. Vol. 1, 1886; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1962.
Justin Martyr. The First Apology (circa. A.D. 150). In Ante-Nicene Fathers. Vol. 1, 1886; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1962.
Knox, Ronald. Essays in Satire. London: Sheed & Ward, 1928; new ed., 1954.
Latimer, Hugh. Select Sermons and Letters of Dr. Hugh Latimer (R.T.S. und.). In Works of Hugh Latimer. Vol. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; Parker Society, 1844.
Leacock, Stephen. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1948.
Lewis, W. H., ed. Letters of C. S. Lewis. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1966.
Luther’s Table-Talk. Translated by Captain Henry Bell, 1886.
Luther’s Works. 55 vols. St. Louis: Concordia; Minneapolis: Fortress, 1955–1986.
Manning, Bernard L. A Layman in the Ministry. London: Independent Press, 1942.
Maugham, Somerset. The Moon and Sixpence. New York: Penguin, 1919.
Melville, Herman. Moby Dick or The Whale. 1851; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.
Parker, J. H., ed. A Library of Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1843.
Portable Mark Twain, The. New York: Viking Press, 1958.
Ramsey, Arthur Michael, and Leon-Joseph Suenens. The Future of the Christian Church. London: SCM., 1971.
Schaff, Philip, ed. The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers. 1892, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans 1975.
Simeon, Charles. Horae Homileticae, or Discourses (in the form of skeletons) upon the Whole Scriptures. 21 vols., 1819–20. Also An Appendix to the Horae Homileticae. 6 vols., 1828. London: Richard Watts, 1819–28.
———. Let Wisdom Judge: University Addresses and Sermon Outlines. Edited by Arthur Pollard. London: Inter-Varsity Fellowship, 1959.
Spurgeon, Charles Haddon. Twelve Sermons on the Holy Spirit. London: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1937; Grand Rapids: Baker, 1973.
Stewart, James S. A Man in Christ. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1935; rev. ed. 1972; Grand Rapids: Baker, 1975.
Tertullian. The Apology (circa AD 200). In Ante-Nicene Fathers. Vol. 3, 1885; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1973.
Toffler, Alvin. Future Shock. London: Bodley Head; New York: Random House, 1970.
Trollope, Anthony. Barchester Towers. 1857; London: J. M. Dent, Everyman’s Library, 1906.
Trueblood, Elton. The Humour of Christ. New York: Harper & Row, 1964; London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1965.
Twain, Mark, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. 1876; London: Pan Books, 1965.
Walsh, Chad. Campus Gods on Trial. New York: Macmillan, 1962.
Welsby, Paul A., ed. Sermons and Society: An Anglican Anthology. London: Penguin, 1970.
Wesley, John. Sermons on Several Occasions. 4 vols. 1746–60. Norwich: Epworth, 1944.