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Survey question 9--Preaching must be true to:
The congregation 66.7% 17.6% 38.5%
Theological
construct 83.3% 17.6% 46.2%
The world 0.0% 10.5% 3.8%
Survey question 12--Hermeneutical principles:
Say what text says 16.7% 58.8% 44.8%
Context 0.0% 29.4% 20.7%
Survey question 14--Work required of students:
Classroom sermons 66.7% 57.9% 79.3%
Examinations 66.7% 10.6% 27.6%
Seminars 0.0% 31.6% 3.4%
Other exercises 0.0% 10.6% 6.9%
Survey question 13.b.--Date of publication of
recommended books:
1972 1977 1972
A common factor that appears often on table 59 is
the relation between preaching and Scripture. Responses
to several Bible—related questions indicate that
'related' colleges give most attention to the text of
Scri pture. Questions documenting this most strongly?
Seven: Inter pretation: twelve: Text and Context: and
eight: God as source. Two other data lines indirectly
support this conclusion (question nine: Congregation and
Theological construct. That preaching, according to most
'related' college lecturers, need not be true to these
standards gives greater pre—eminence to this group's
general consensus that preaching should be true to
Scripture--see table 49.) Another line, where the
difference between 'related' and independent college
statistics is negligible, shows the importance of
Scripture for 'related' college lecturers (question 7
{content}. see table 48).
The university emphasis on theology (question eight,