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SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT
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Teaching the Sermon: Lyric, Narrative, and T. S. Eliot
… The Waste Land that is aptly named "The Fire Sermon." The hybrid nature of this famous poem makes it open to a variety of readings, and these readings are often conflicting. Thus, the work, in spite of being a seminal text in literature, can be difficult to teach due to the complexity of the …
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An Exemplary and Reproducible Sermon Preparation Method Utilizing Logos Bible Software
… others in using Bible software for efficient sermon preparation by surveying various techniques at each stage of the sermon development process. Using a historical-grammatical-literary hermeneutic, the research will demonstrate using the Logos Bible Software platform to exegete two biblical …
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The ecological Christ: Discerning an ecological consciousness in the Sermon on the Mount
<p>Ecology is the science that studies the function of communities of life within ecosystems. These systems are bound by an affirmation of relationship. Such relationships are very complex and every part of them is dependent on every other part if they are to maintain the integrity of nature that …
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Death in the Royal Family: Victorian Funeral Sermon Techniques in Tennyson's National Poetry
… Victoria — is illuminated when read as a funeral sermon. By drawing out the funeral sermon techniques Tennyson incorporates, we see that he assumes a role as religious mediator to counsel and comfort Victoria in her grief. Tennyson's funeral sermon message alters quite distinctively from Albert's …
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Moving from Orthodoxy to Orthopraxy: Sermon Application in the Doctrinal Preaching of John Piper
This dissertation examines sermon application in the doctrinal preaching of John Piper. The work argues that Piper’s use of application is characterized by multifaceted purpose and the qualities of consistency, creativity, clarity, recurrence, cumulative and/or climactic effect, and …
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Weighing Sermon Substance: Evaluating a Sermon's Degree of Expository Merit, Doctrinal Essence, and Christ-Centeredness
… and demonstrates a method for evaluating a sermon's degree of three aspects: expository merit, doctrinal essence, and Christ-centeredness. The work argues that the gravity of expository, doctrinal, and Christ-centered preaching calls for a substantive and well-balanced method that weighs a …
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Application for the Sake of Transformation: A Study of Thomas Manton’s Categorical Approach to Sermon Application
… that Thomas Manton’s categorical approach to sermon application, being thoroughly influenced by William Perkins and the Westminster Directory for Public Worship, maintained a teleological aim of transformation through an informed mind as conceptualized in the Augustinian tradition. Chapter 1 …
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Conquering the Dragon: A Sermon Series From Revelation 12–16 for Living Hope Church in Georgetown, Ontario
The Book of Revelation has an urgent message to churches facing persecution or temptation to compromise. Biblical theology is critical to understanding and applying the message of Revelation. Chapter 1 outlines the basis of this project and gives an overview of the texts covered. Chapter 2 examines …
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Invention in the Lyman Beecher Lectures on Preaching: The Lecturers' Advice on Gathering and Selecting Sermon Material
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T22:51:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5900485.pdf: 9566736 bytes, checksum: eefa425baec76e90e6ffee7750f228f4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1958
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Ideology and righteousness in Matt 5.20: a study in identity politics from the Sermon on the Mount
… on the description of the function of the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew‘s Gospel. Not only does the Sermon on the Mount (SM) depict an ethical, eschatological and identity formation function, as it is popularly conceived by scholars, but it is also reflective of reconstruction, …
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Love and Holiness in Reciprocal Entailment: Love as the Implementation of Holiness in Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount
… with the theological implications of Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount given the contemporaneous and dominant cultural concept of purity as primarily a matter of externals, it is demonstrated that holiness and love exist in reciprocal entailment. The concept of polymorphism is applied to holiness: …
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The Cohesive Rhetoric of Jesus: The Role of Matthew 6:19–7:11 in the Sermon on the Mount
For centuries, the Sermon on the Mount has received particular attention as a discrete unit of Christ’s teaching, yet disagreement reigns among its interpreters. A central concern among the Sermon’s interpreters is the question of structure. While general agreement exists concerning the overall …
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A methodology for the expository narrative preaching as applied to the Old Testament narrative : from text to sermon presentation
… preaching as a genre-sensitive biblical sermonic methodology in the interpretation and the communication of the biblical narrative texts. The author uses the term “expository narrative preaching” to distinguish from the general use of the “narrative preaching” that excludes propositions …
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Preaching and Technology: A Study of Attitudes and Practices
… to determine the effects of this adoption on the sermon as a genre and preaching as a rhetorical practice. It contends that understanding genre expectations, which are steeped in the traditions and values of a community, is key to understanding how and why digital technologies are used in …
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Translation of Homilia in divites by Basil of Caesarea with Annotation and Dating
… an English translation of Basil of Caesarea's sermon Homilia in divites based on Yves Courtonne's Greek text. I have included details of Basil's scriptural content in the notes. The searches to identify the scriptural content were done using LXX and GNT as databases and employing the search …
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The relationship between theology and ethics in the Letter to the Ephesians.
… is a document that can be designated as "sermon". As a "sermon" it is a combination of epideictic and deliberative rhetorical genres that does not address a specific issue or controversy. It speaks to a Christian audience that is not expected to make critical decisions based on …
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Rhetoric, religion and politics in the St. Paul's Cross sermons, 1603-1625
This thesis investigates the sermons delivered at Paul's Cross, the outdoor pulpit at St. Paul's Cathedral, during the reign of James I. It examines the preachers' use of rhetoric to influence the religious and political attitudes of contemporaries by comparing theories of preaching, found in …
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Discourse for Preaching: The Homiletical Significance of Selected Greek Conjunctions in the Epistle to the Hebrews
… shaping preaching segments, guiding sermon outline development, and clarifying authorial propositions. These findings prove that the substance and structure of the biblical text can directly shape the sermon, enhancing expository preaching. Chapter 1 introduces the study, presenting …
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