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Education in the arts and sciences
provides a useful preparation for the preaching
ministry 39.6%
Either a reply indicating that there is
little value in education in the arts and
sciences, or no reply at all Cat least hinting
at a negative answer) 58.5%
The arts and sciences contribute nothing
to education for preaching, and such education,
in fact, hinders the effectiveness of a
preacher 1.9%
II. 'Objective'/'Subjective' Lecturer Subgroup
Responses
Three other questions, mentioned in chapter one, do
not add directly to our knowledge of the teaching of
preaching in Great Britain. Contrasting responses to
these questions do, however, create several subgroupinas
of the lecturers who responded to the survey. Members of
a subgroup share a common trait which distinguishes them
from the other lecturers. By comparing the composite
responses of contrasting subgrou p s. this study offers an
understanding of the differences (and similarities) among
various types of lecturers, and, more broadly, types of
theological colleges.
Survey question seventeen enables one such
subgrouping. 12 It asked the lecturers to choose a
preacher—theologian with whose theology of preaching they
most identify. This question presented seven names, from
which they were to select one. The persons listed on the
survey were the same ones whose theologies of preaching
are presented in chapter two. Six of the lecturers did
not respond to this question. Forty—nine did name the