Homiletics: Preaching in the Scottish and Dutch Reformed Line
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The theory and craft of preaching as the Reformed churches of Scotland and the Netherlands practiced it: Perkins's Art of Prophesying, the Westminster Directory on the preaching of the Word, the Free Church pulpit and Dutch catechetical preaching. Students prepare and deliver sermons under their own session or consistory.
These lists, taken from the school's verified research, are studied on your own at your own pace. The school's own classes, written as full teaching, open one at a time.
How to begin
- Enroll with a free account so the school keeps your place.
- Open the first class, lecture or reading and follow the order of the syllabus.
- Mark each lecture, reading and assignment complete when you finish it.
- Choose a weekly study goal to see when you will finish.
Syllabus
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Lectures Listen to the lectures in order. Those marked supplementary are optional.
- Catechetical Preaching (Christ the Center) Alan D. Strange and Cornelis Venema 69 min (mp3 duration read with ffprobe from the episode page's audio file) Open source Doctrinal Mid-America Reformed Seminary (professors) American subscribers (1788 text). None of their items in this stream touches WCF 20.4, 23 or 31. No comparison heading needed in this stream; keep the standing note on the page.
- Calvin as a Servant of the Word of God (Christ the Center, with Glen J. Clary) Glen J. Clary 50 min (mp3 duration read with ffprobe from the episode page's audio file) Open source Doctrinal Orthodox Presbyterian Church (pastor, Immanuel OPC, West Collingswood NJ, per the episode page) American subscribers (1788 text). None of their items in this stream touches WCF 20.4, 23 or 31. No comparison heading needed in this stream; keep the standing note on the page.
- The Drama of Preaching (Christ the Center) Eric Watkins 62 min (mp3 duration read with ffprobe from the episode page's audio file) Open source Supplementary Covenant OPC, St. Augustine, Florida (per the episode page at the time of recording) American subscribers (1788 text). None of their items in this stream touches WCF 20.4, 23 or 31. No comparison heading needed in this stream; keep the standing note on the page.
- A Life in the Preaching Ministry (Christ the Center, with Eric Alexander) Eric Alexander 78 min (mp3 duration read with ffprobe from the episode page's audio file) Open source Supplementary Church of Scotland (minister ordained for over fifty years, per the episode page) Church of Scotland minister; that church holds the Confession only under the 1910/1921 Declaratory Articles and is not a subscribing body in the school's sense. Supplementary only, labelled as pastoral testimony; never doctrinal.
Total: 4.3 hours