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The preacher’s spiritual life. Preparing and delivering a sermon.
Preaching is called to help people turn to God and grow in the life of the spirit. This collection brings together books on the minister’s calling and inner life, understanding Scripture, and speaking to the hearer. Historical English originals are accompanied by new Russian translations prepared for Life for God.
Calling, prayer, the substance of a sermon, choosing a biblical text, and speaking to an audience. The complete first series of thirteen lectures, with the author’s introduction and the account of the Pastors’ College.
First Series (1875). Complete text: Introduction and Apology, the Pastors’ College statement, and all 13 lectures.
The preacher as a man of God, a man of the Word, a Christian, and an apostle. Nine Yale lectures and an ordination charge.
Complete English text of the 1919 historical edition (first published in 1891) with a new Russian translation: preface, nine lectures, appendix and 67 authorial notes.
A systematic guide to interpreting a text, explanation and illustration, sermon arrangement, style, and delivery.
Complete text of the new, twenty-third edition: New York, A. C. Armstrong and Son, 1898; edited by Edwin Charles Dargan. First published in 1870. The English original and new Russian translation include both prefaces, the introduction, all five parts, the bibliography, 609 historical notes and the 378-entry index. Three separately labelled modern editorial notes explain corrections of biblical references.
The preacher’s personality, the idea of the sermon, the congregation, and the value of the human soul.
Phillips Brooks. Lectures on Preaching. Complete bilingual edition: the 1877 English original and a new Russian translation. Delivered before the Divinity School of Yale College in January and February, 1877.
An extensive course on preaching and pastoral ministry, available in the Library of Congress collection.
Complete text of Charles Scribner & Co., New York, 1867: preface, 12 chapters on Homiletics, 6 chapters on Pastoral Theology, and 85 authorial notes. English original and a new unabridged Russian translation.