Philip Arthur Bence PhD Thesis - Research@StAndrews:FullText

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focuses on them and their relationship with the other two
participants in preaching: God and their congregations.
The lecturer's focus on student contact with God has
at least two components: the student's own existential
relationship with God and the more academic awareness of
previous divine—human interaction.
We begin with the second of these, which involves
the student's growing knowledge of the written sources of
preaching, as well as the persons and events which
generated them. The broader theological curriculum, with
its attention to Old Testament, New Testament, systematic
theology, and church history, greatly assists the
preaching lecturer here. It always remains his task,
however, to encourage the student's integration of these
related disciplines with the task of preaching."
Several colleges employ a method consistent with the
goal of bringing all theological studies into the realm
of preaching. On a regular basis, the entire staff and
student body gather for a two to three hour session. The
group dedicates the first hour to a joint worship
experience, led either by a staff member or student.
Particularly in the case of student preachers, the
presence of the wider faculty in this service offers a
vivid reminder that preaching reflects the entire
theological education. A subsequent evaluative
discussion reviews the entire process of preparing for
and leading worship, particularly preaching.
But preachers draw content not only from written