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to congregational factors." Statistics documenting
the views of Episcopal and Presbyterian lecturers
generally appear toward the opposite end of these
spectrums.
Other themes in the teaching of preaching break up
this pattern of agreement within the established/free
church pairs. Note the contrasting conjunction of
denominational groups on the question of the priority
lecturers give to providing, for their students, a
theological content for preaching.
Table 80
Bapt. Ep1s. Pres. Evan.
Question 8--Ranking of potential goals:
Theology 3.0 3.7 2.8 3.8
Question 10--Lecture content relating to:
Theological
content: 42.9% 12.0% 50.0% 23.1%
Question eiaht:theoloay was another data line that
appeared to exhibit distinct denominational influence.
Three of the four actual denominational responses were
separated from the theologically predicted responses by
at least three tenths.
7 Evangelical lecturers give a
lower priority to teaching a theological content than
predicted, while Baptist and Presbyterian lecturers give
a higher priority than theologically expected.
On two other theologically related questions,
Baptist lecturers join with Episcopal and Evangelical
lecturers on the lower end of the spectrum.