Pulpit Pressures and the Ontology of Preaching

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Vol. 72 No. 3 (2013)

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Jan 14, 2014
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Jeffrey Raymond Pugh
Melbourne School of Theology (until 2013)

Abstract

This article reintroduces the voices of the Reformers Luther and Calvin along with Karl Barth in an engagement with the typical unstated assumptions that have seen the relegation of the expository sermon as secondary in importance to concerns to appease the mindsets of the contemporary evangelical worship audience. The argument shows that these writers from a distinct era have much to contribute to the current cultural condition of the sermon due to the similarity of issues in their age which had a similar tendency as ours to underplay the ontological realities that are occurring when God's word is preached freshly into new contexts.

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Pugh, Jeffrey Raymond. “Pulpit Pressures and the Ontology of Preaching”. Reformed Theological Review 72, no. 3 (January 14, 2014). Accessed April 25, 2024. https://rtrjournal.org/index.php/RTR/article/view/49.

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Author Biography

Jeffrey Raymond Pugh, Melbourne School of Theology (until 2013)

Pastor of 14 years with various Baptist Unions of Australia for 14 years and practical theologian in various seminaries until 2013 most recently as Dean of Postgraduate Studies Melbourne School of Theology, now advising in postgraduate structures through SE Asia and locally. Jeff's PhD was in the theology of congregational change from Flinders University South Australia

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