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According to Robert Mounce, the preacher occupies a position of unrivaled significance in the life and destiny of his fellow human beings. As A.M. Hunter says in the forward, “the preached Gospel which the first heralds of Christ proclaimed to the great pagan world of their day … runs, like a golden thread, through the whole New Testament.” Mounce introduces his study with a survey of related...

is limited to the present, employ the once-for-all Self-disclosure of God in history? The answer lies in the distinctive nature of preaching. As the preacher proclaims the divine act of redemption, the barriers of time are somehow transcended and that supreme event of the past is once again taking place. God’s historic Self-disclosure has become a present actuality. John Knox has written: Preaching does more than recount and explain the ancient event. The Spirit makes the ancient event in a very
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