The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church

by Old, Hughes Oliphant

• ISBN13: 9780802843579
• ISBN10: 0802843573
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-02-01
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

Hughes Oliphant Old surveys the history of preaching in the Greek schools of Alexandria and Antioch, in the Syriac church, and throughout the Christian Empire, concluding with the preaching of Leo the Great, Peter Chrysologos, and Gregory.l

Author Biography

Hughes Oliphant Old is a widely respected pastor and author and is a member of the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, New Jersey

Table of Contents

The Flourishing of Greek Preaching in the Christian Empire--the School of Alexandria	p. 1
Cyril of Jerusalem	p. 3
Catechetical Sermons	p. 5
Preaching as Mystagogy	p. 18
The Cappadocian Fathers	p. 32
Basil of Caesarea	p. 33
Gregory of Nazianzus	p. 61
Gregory of Nyssa	p. 82
The Festal Calendar of the Cappadocians	p. 95
The Ministry of the Word as Worship	p. 105
Cyril of Alexandria	p. 108
Cyril as Interpreter of Scripture	p. 110
Cyril as Preacher	p. 111
Cyril's Sermons on Luke as Doctrinal Preaching	p. 114
Cyril's Sermons on Luke as the Preaching of the Christian Life	p. 120
Hesychius of Jerusalem	p. 125
Regular Expository Preaching in the Church of Jerusalem	p. 128
The Sermons on Job	p. 129
The Jerusalem Lectionary in the Fifth Century	p. 135
The Journals of Etheria	p. 136
Scripture Readings for Feast Days	p. 143
The Festal Preaching of Hesychius	p. 160
The Flourishing of Greek Preaching in the Christian Empire--the School of Antioch	p. 167
John Chrysostom	p. 171
Sermons on Genesis--the Graciousness of God's Word	p. 174
Sermons on the Statues	p. 189
Catechetical Sermons	p. 196
Sermons on Colossians and Chrysostom's Social Hermeneutic	p. 202
The Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom	p. 218
Theodore of Mopsuestia	p. 223
Catechetical Sermons	p. 224
Antiochene Theology of Worship	p. 228
Theodoret of Cyrus	p. 234
Learned Preaching	p. 235
Sermons on Providence and the Antiochene Theology of Evangelism	p. 237
The Syriac Church	p. 247
Ephrem of Nisibis	p. 249
Ephrem as Biblical Scholar	p. 251
The Hymns on Paradise	p. 253
Ephrem's Doctrine of Scripture	p. 255
Homiletical Poetry	p. 264
Narsai	p. 268
Philoxenus of Mabbug	p. 274
The Syriac Lectionaries	p. 277
The Lectionary of Mosul	p. 278
The Lectionary of Athanasius V	p. 292
The Latin Fathers	p. 297
Ambrose	p. 300
Sermons on Luke	p. 301
The Sermon against Auxentius	p. 315
Preaching as Mystagogy	p. 317
Jerome	p. 325
Maximus of Turin	p. 340
Augustine	p. 344
Eloquia Dei	p. 344
Expository Preaching	p. 345
Festal Sermons	p. 368
Introducing the Faith	p. 382
On the Art of Christian Teaching: Exegesis, Hermeneutic, and Rhetoric	p. 386
Theologia Verbi Dei	p. 397
The Eternal Gospel in a Dying Culture	p. 399
Leo the Great	p. 401
Leo's Festal Cycle	p. 402
The Predominance of a Penitential Approach to Worship	p. 411
Peter Chrysologus	p. 416
Gregory the Great	p. 425
Sermons on the Roman Lectionary	p. 428
Sermons on Ezekiel	p. 437
Theology of the Word	p. 440
The Word as Worship	p. 454
Bibliography	p. 459
Index	p. 473
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