The bibliography centers on Hughes Oliphant Old's seven-volume The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church. This comprehensive survey traces the history of Christian preaching from the biblical period through the modern era, giving sustained attention to how the Reformed tradition has understood the public reading, exposition, and proclamation of Scripture as the central act of Christian worship.
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29. THE READING AND PREACHING OF THE SCRIPTURES IN THE WORSHIP OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Old, Hughes Oliphant. “The Ministry of the Word.” In Worship Reformed According to Scripture, revised and expanded edition, Chapter 6, pp. 59–90. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox, 2002. See this first for an overview of the whole.
——— The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church. Vol. 1, The Biblical Period. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1998. x + 383 pp.
——— The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church. Vol. 2, The Patristic Age. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1998. viii + 481 pp.
——— The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church. Vol. 3, The Medieval Church. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1999. xviii + 646 pp.
——— The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church. Vol. 4, The Age of the Reformation. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2002. xiii + 556 pp.
——— The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church. Vol. 5, Moderatism, Pietism, and Awakening. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2004. xviii + 620 pp.
——— The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church. Vol. 6, The Modern Age, 1789–1989. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2007. xxii + 997 pp.
——— The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church. Vol. 7, Our Own Time. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2010. xx + 714 pp. Chapter 3, “A ‘New Breed’ of Presbyterians,” pp. 87–172, articulates well the kind of expository preaching the Foundation would like to promote.
Note: This may be too much to read for one week. We would suggest reading the overview and volumes 1, 2, and 4 in their entirety and volume 7, pp. 87–172, as main texts, supplementing that with selections from the other volumes.
rev. August 31, 2013
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