Philip Arthur Bence PhD Thesis - Research@StAndrews:FullText

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sought within the hearers 21.2%°
(Again, because some lecturers included, in their
definitions, multiple verbs that fell into different
categories, the figures total over one hundred percent.)
Secondly, I looked, within the preaching
definitions, for nouns which described a lecturer's view
of preaching content: the message to be communicated,
proclaimed, etc. These nouns fell into the following
categories:
Table 4
Biblical content 42.3%
A theological construct 40.4%
God's Word 38.4%
God - some member of the
Trinity 32.7%
Two supplementary questions filled in further data
on course (preaching) content. The first of these (no.
9) was worded as follows: "In order to preach
faithfully, the preacher must be true to
II
The lecturers' completions of that sentence indicate
key standards by which they evaluate preaching content.
One must assume that a lecturer would teach his students
to evaluate their sermons by standards similar to his
own.
The responses to this question are categorized as
follows: