![]() Principal practical recommendations deriving from this centre on creating supportive networks of reflective preaching practitioners, enhancing the provision of mentor-mentee relationships, and educating congregations for their role in shaping preachers.Label Preaching with sacred fire : an anthology of African American sermons, 1750 to the present, edited by Martha Simmons and Frank A. In my conclusion I develop a theologically nuanced version of Lave and Wenger’s concept which I term a community of agreed sermonic enterprise. I conduct in Chapter 6 quantitative analysis of questionnaires returned by Church of Scotland ministers, in Chapter 7 qualitative analysis of the published testimony of fifteen experienced preachers, and in Chapter 8 qualitative analysis of interviews with twelve young Methodist preachers. After a fifth chapter on methodologies, these concepts are tested in three field studies that use a range of sociological research methods. Further, I ask to what extent the development of the preacher, as in many other professions with agreed standards of competency, does and should take place within communities of practice where legitimate peripheral participation (as developed in the work of Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger) marks the developing preacher’s sense of his or her own learning trajectory. In Chapters 3 and 4 social learning theories that I examine include imitation, the effect of role models, and the influence of the mentor or the coach. I examine in Chapter 2 adult learning principles and cognitively-oriented concepts, such as learning styles and the theory of multiple intelligences. ![]() In my Introduction I consider a definition of preaching for the purpose of the research and some historical approaches to developing preachers. I suggest that concepts of communities of practice and legitimate peripheral participation, along with recognition of role models and mentors, have a vital part to play in the life-long project that is learning to preach. In this thesis I investigate social learning theory and conduct empirical research in order to understand formative influences in the development of Christian preachers. It was, therefore, the method of preaching that enhanced the Word as the center of worship. This method of preaching existed prior to Perkins’s codification in The Art of Prophesying and shared mutual appreciation by Anglicans.Likewise, we can conclude that the hotter degree to which the Puritans sought to further their reformation attitudes and priorities lead them to champion the plain method of preaching. Yet, the plain sermon method was not distinctively Puritan. It was the preferred method that fit their view of preaching as a means of grace to sinners. ![]() In sum, the Puritan use of the plain sermon was the result of hermeneutically and theologically informed presuppositions. Finally, an analysis of the plain sermon, more technically called the doctrine-use scheme, will be presented. This paper aims to analyze the influences, development, and method of Puritan preaching known as the “plain sermon.” This will be accomplished by rooting the Puritan plain sermon within its historical context and by considering the philosophical, theological, hermeneutical, historical, and practical influences. ![]()
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