Philip Arthur Bence PhD Thesis - Research@StAndrews:FullText

theological department or theological college (within a
Protestant or Roman Catholic tradition) whose existence and
address were known to me or my advisor. We located
eighty—three such institutions. (A sample survey is
presented in appendix one.) Eight responded with the
information that their institutions do not prepare persons
for the parish ministry and, thus, do not offer instruction
in preaching. Twenty others did not return the survey.'.
I did receive responses from fifty—five lecturers. So; of
British colleges which (potentially) teach preaching, there
was a seventy—four percent response rate.
The five major stages of research, incorporating study
of the seven theological models and contemporary teaching of
preaching, (and subsequent chapters summarizing the
research) are as follows:
1. As stated above, this study's overall hypothesis is
as follows: the theology a preaching lecturer holds
determines his teaching of preaching. Admittedly, each
lecturer holds a theology whose precise combination of
components is unique to him. If the basic thesis is
accurate, then each unique theology distinctively affects
the teaching of preaching. Analyzing this relationship
lecturer by lecturer would be a difficult task. In order to
ascertain the reliability of the overall thesis in a means
which maintains reasonable accuracy and practicality, I
grouped the preaching lecturers into sets. The basis for
this division was theological. I placed each lecturer in