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Ever since the Reformation put new emphasis upon the authority of Scripture, the pulpit has been the pride of Protestantism. Nowhere has this pride been more evident than in the U.S., where sermon-centered churches-notably the Baptists and Methodists-flourished with the conquest of the frontier, and such preachers as Henry Ward Beecher and Dwight Lyman Moody became as famous as Presidents, and perhaps as influential...
...good preacher?" Good or bad, today's minister is sure to be a different preacher from the ones his father heard. Like the U.S. itself, the sermon is in permanent revolution. The florid. Bible-based oratory of the 19th century-has largely disappeared from the pulpit-and so has most of the exhortatory preaching based on the "social gospel" that urged man to make God his partner in correcting economic and social evil. Even the familiar "life situation" sermon, with its emphasis upon individual moral uplift, is giving ground to a new and timely emphasis in Protestant oratory : theological...
...Chicago in a recent issue of the Lutheran magazine Ecclesia Plantanda: "One of the most disturbing elements in the church today is the deterioration in the art of preaching." But Dr. Kyle Haselden, who reads as many as 50 sermons a week as editor of the nondenominational magazine The Pulpit, defends his contemporaries. Says he: "The level of preaching in Protestant churches is higher than in the past." Squirming in the Pews. The standout preachers of the past, says the Rev. Walfred Erickson, of suburban Seattle's Clyde Hill Baptist Church, "had the ability to produce a temporary emotional...
Schwarz became a skilled anti-Communist orator, speaking from the pulpit (long a lay preacher, he describes himself as "a narrow-minded, Bible-believing Baptist") or on the public platform. He recalls one triumphant debate in his younger days with a Communist leader in a Sydney park: "I mentioned Dialectical Materialism, whereupon the Communist leader challenged me. 'What is Dialectical Materialism?' he asked. I replied, 'Dialectical Materialism is the philosophy of Karl Marx that he formulated by taking the dialectic of Hegel, marrying it to the materialism of Feuerbach, abstracting from it the concept of progress...
...meaning of God's presence in a world such as this?" With this rediscovery of man's larger problems, Dr. Freehof argues, "personal guidance can no longer remain the overwhelming concern of the minister. Public influence again becomes his duty. As that is increasingly realized, the pulpit as an instrument of public influence will be revalued once more...