Philip Arthur Bence PhD Thesis - Research@StAndrews:FullText

theological or ecclesiastical group. A case could be built
for other theologians who have contributed valuable insight,
perhaps more broadly than Farmer and Sangster, to this
century's theological writing. Their work, however, offers,
for the purposes of this study, a less distinctive model.
Persons in this category would include, for example, P.T.
Forsyth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Emil Brunner, and Helmut
Thielicke.
(Responses to a survey of British lecturers of
preaching give an after-the-fact approval to the selection
of the seven theologians. When asked what persons most
influenced their thinking on preaching, the lecturers
responded with a variety of names. Only eleven names
appeared on at least three of the fifty-five complete
surveys. Five {Barth, Bultmann, Tillich, Stewart, and
Lloyd-Jones) of these eleven are primary subjects of this
study. Of the remaining six models the lecturers mentioned
most frequently, three {Farmer, Sangster, and Forsyth) were
dismissed for reasons mentioned above. Of the other three,
Charles Spurgeon dates from the nineteenth century; John
Stott is a slightly more moderate Lloyd-Jones; and Austin
Farrer, while an Anglican scholar of note, likewise fails to
meet the set criteria.)
The second primary research focus was contemporary
teaching of preaching, both in terms of teaching content and
methods of teaching practice, at British educational
institutions. In order to discover the present situation in
homiletical education, I sent a survey to each university