Preaching to the contemporary mind
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| Glavni autor: | Abbey, Merrill R., 1905- (-) |
| Vrsta građe: | Knjiga |
| Jezik: | eng |
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New York,
Abingdon Press,
[1963]
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- Part One: The mind in today's world
- 1. Achieving a meeting of minds
- Communicating in Babel
- Making the hearer a partner
- Teaching the preacher to listen
- Understanding to moods of the age
- Meeting the moods at the cross
- 2. Authority and communication
- Basic elements part company
- Theological bond reconciles
- Double analysis opens the text
- 3. Dynamic encounter
- A meeting that awakens concern
- Christ's tension with culture
- Popular religion's accommodated Christ
- Errors in this idolatry
- 4. When we challenge an axiom
- Point of contact, or conflict?
- Power through defined need
- Scripture defies our axioms
- Mirrored in mass media
- Guidelines in controversy
- Part Two: The gospel in today's mind
- 5. Faith confronts the secular mind
- "In love with this present world"
- Assumptions cast long shadows
- Man as end is man defiled
- Scientism, an utopian faith
- Some preaching approaches
- 6. The gospel and the crisis in character
- Concern, forerunner of grace
- The "respectable" build the underworld
- Sources of the crisis
- Only the lonely hear
- Themes for the encounter
- 7. Who speaks for freedom?
- Chartered in the Spirit
- Assault on freedom
- When is the pulpit free?
- Toward a philosophy of freedom
- Freedom's theological dimension
- Proposed double analysis
- 8. Creative Christians confront crisis
- A day for apocalypse
- Home in a shattered world
- Crisis calls to creativity
- Preaching to the threatened
- Race at the bar of the gospel
- Leaning forward in hope.