A

HISTORY OF PREACHING

FROM THE APOSTOLIC FATHERS TO

THE GREAT REFORMERS

A. D. 70-1572

BY

EDWIN CHARLES DARGAN, D.D., LL.D.

PROFESSOR OF HOMILETICS IN THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL
SEMINARY, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY

Επειδὴ γὰρ ἐν τῇ σοφίᾳ τοῦ θεοῦ οὐκ ἔγνω
ὁ κόσμος διὰ τῆς σοφίας τὸν θεόν, εὐδόκησεν

ὁ θεὸς διὰ τῆς μωρίας τοῦ κηρύγματος σῶσαι
τοὺς πιστεύοντας.—I Cor. I: 21.

NEW YORK

A. C. ARMSTRONG & SON

3 AND 5 WEST 18TH STREET, NEAR 5TH AVENUE

1905

Divinity school.

COPYRIGHT, 1905, BY

A. C. ARMSTRONG & SON

Published January. 1905

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Press of J. J. Little & Co.
Astor Place, New York

TO THE

CHERISHED AND REVERED

MEMORY OF

JOHN ALBERT BROADUS

A PUPIL'S

GRATEFUL OFFERING

CHAPTER II. THE CULMINATION OF ANCIENT PREACHING

IN THE FOURTH CENTURY

PERIOD II. 430-1095.

CHAPTER III. THE DECLINE OF PREACHING IN THE FIFTH

AND SIXTH CENTURIES

CHAPTER IV. THE LOW ESTATE OF PREACHING IN THE

SEVENTH AND EIGHTH CENTURIES.

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105

129

CHAPTER V. VOICES IN THE NIGHT, OR PREACHING DURING

THE NINTH, TENTH AND ELEVENTH CENTURIES

154

PERIOD III. 1095-1361.

CHAPTER VI. HERALDS OF THE DAWN IN THE ELEVENTH

AND TWELFTH CENTURIES

CHAPTER VII. THE CULMINATION OF MEDIEVAL PREACH-

ING IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY

CHAPTER VIII. DECLINE AND MYSTICISM IN THE THIR-

TEENTH AND FOURTEENTH CENTURIES

PERIOD IV. 1361-1572.

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218

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CHAPTER IX. THE RENAISSANCE, AND PREACHING IN THE

FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES

CHAPTER X. PREACHERS OF THE FOURTEENTH AND FIF-

TEENTH CENTURIES

CHAPTER XI. THE REFORMATION, AND PREACHING IN THE

SIXTEENTH CENTURY