of God. Here revelation is used not in the sense of content, although content is certainly there, but in the sense of mode. If preaching is in any way a continuation into the present of God’s revelation, then what we are doing and how we are doing it should be harmonious with our understanding of the mode of revelation. At the risk of sounding presumptuous, it can be said that we are learning our method of communicating from God. In other words, from the transaction we call revelation we understand