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The major shift in the study and practice of preaching in the 1970s and 1980s, labeled the New Homiletic, turned toward the hearer. The purpose of preaching focused less on persuasion and more on transformation, less on asserting religious truths and more on offering an experience of the Gospel. Instead of viewing language as referential, its creative, evocative nature began to be emphasized....
In the later medieval period, the Franciscans and Dominicans developed a new form of preaching, usually referred to as the university sermon. One fifteenth-century preaching manuscript uses the metaphor of a tree to describe this new form.2 From a very short trunk extends three major limbs, each of which bears three smaller branches. The approach is to take a central theme and break it into three points, each of which is then divided into three subsections. The university sermon
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