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"'Barth, Prayer and Preaching. p. 66.
Barth, Church Dogmatics IV.3.. Translated by
G.W. Bromiley. (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1962), p. 784.
Barth offered a more optimistic description of the
Christian's freedom in a lecture entitled "The Gift of
Freedom." Even there. however, he wrote, "The sovereign God
alone saved man from the alienation and depravity of which
he was and still is guilty. He delivered him from the
imprisonment and slavery which was and still is his human
lot" (underlining mine). From "The Gift of Freedom,"
translated by Thomas Wieser. The Humanity of God. p. 81.
(Cf. p. 78,79,83.)
V. COMMUNICATION--ADAPTABILITY (p. 120-27)
'Lloyd-Jones, "The Saviour of the World," in
Evangelistic Sermons. (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust,
1983), p. 15.
2 Cf. "In the Acts and in the Epistles, we are told
once and for all what the Christian Church is, what she is
like, and how she is to do her work. We must always make
certain that our methods conform to the teaching of the New
Testament." Lloyd-Jones, The Presentation of the Gospel.
(London: InterVarsity Fellowship, 1949), p. 4.
.3Barth, Prayer and Preaching. Translated by B.E.
Hooke. (London: SCM, 1964), P. 99. (Cf. "The
presupposition of the sermon, on the contrary, is just that
the subjectivity of the preacher bows down under the
objective word of the prophets and apostles and under the
Word of God to which they bear witness." Credo. Translated
by J. Strathearn McNab. (London: Hodder and Stoughton,
1936), p. 198,99.)
"The words of the preacher must be relevant to the
immediate preoocupations of his hearers. If this were
understood, preachers would be on their guard against
continuing to discourse on topics which have long ceased to
be important" Barth, Prayer and Preaching. p. 97.
The movement (in preachin g ] does not consist so
much in going towards men as in coming from Christ to meet
them. Preaching therefore proceeds downwards; it should
never attempt to reach up to a summit." Ibid. p. 71. (Cf.
Evangelical Theology. Translated by Grover Foley.
(Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1963), p. 183.)
Earth, Prayer and Preaching. p. 107.
"Stewart, A Faith to Proclaim. (London: Hodder and
Stoughton, 1953).
°Stewart, Heralds of God. (London: Hodder and
Stoughton, 1946). Note particularly the chapters on "The
Preacher's World" and "The Preacher's Technique."
p. 11.
i °Bultmann, "New Testament and Mythology," in H.W.
Bartsch, ed., Kerygma and Myth. Volume I. Translated by
P.H. Fuller. (London: SPCK, 1953), p. 3,7,16,37, etc.
p. 3.
''Ibid. p. 5. (Cl. this Bultmann statement: