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In this first volume, Dargan begins his account of preaching over the centuries with the need for such a work. Starting with the first three centuries, Dargan moves systematically through the sixteenth century in volume one. He concentrates on the influence of preaching on culture and vice-versa, in relation to social change, doctrine, literature, politics, science, and education. Dargan also...

counterpart, in respect of moral and religious content and aim, to the Græco-Roman oratory. Of distinctively political, judicial, or declamatory speaking the Israelites probably had little or none, but their prophets were an order of orators charged with divine messages and devoted to the moral and spiritual culture of the people. We must beware of thinking exclusively of the predictive element in the work of Israel’s prophets.1 “It was by no means the main business of the prophets to predict the
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