Philip Arthur Bence PhD Thesis - Research@StAndrews:FullText

which mi ght be called the 'liberal evangelicals'.
Admittedly, the seven preacher/theologians fall into at
least two quite different categories. Generally speaking,
there are the 'founders' of new schools of thought, for
exam p le, Barth, Bultmann, Tillich (these bein g known more
for original theology than for preaching), and others who
served as exemplary preachers in other already existing
patterns of thinking, for example, Lloyd—Jones, Stewart, and
Fosdick. (Rahner does not fall easily into either group.)
If the focus of this study were the theologies
themselves, it might be ill—advised to com p are the writings
of men from these two different categories. In this study,
however, which concentrates on the theologies' effects on
the teaching of preachin g , the differin g de grees of
originality in thou ght between the 'theologians' and
'preachers' are not overly si gnificant. In each case. the
preacher/theologian represents a school of thought which
potentially influences the teaching of preaching. For the
purposes at hand, it matters little whether the
preacher/theologian developed, or merely followed in, the
system he represents. The significance of the systems and
the relative contemporaneity of the men who represent them
are more critical than their comparative originality of
thought.
Certainly, other fi gures could have been included in
this select group, but were omitted for various reasons.
H.H. Farmer and William Sangster wrote much appreciated
volumes on homiletics, but neither represent a distinctive