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but particularly at this step, the preacher seeks to
encounter God for himself, choosing to believe and obey
the word that comes to him.)'
4. Proclaim the Word with author1ty,"1.19 in
anticipation of hearer decision."
As he preaches in this manner, the sermon, preacher,
and hearer alike all participate in "eschatological
event."" As Christ returns in each preaching moment,
he once again creates "a new human1ty."1
III. KARL BARTH
It is simply a truism that there is nothing
more important, more urgent, more helpful, more
redemptive, and more salutary, there is
nothing, from the viewpoint of heaven or earth,
more relevant to the real situation than the
speaking and the hearing of the Word of God in
the originative and regulative power of its
truth, in its all-eradicating and
all-reconciling earnestness, in the light that
it casts not only upon time and time's
confusions but also beyond, toward the
brightness of eternity, revealing time and
eternity, through each other and in each
other--the Word, the Logos, of the Living
God. '--(Barth)
Ranking with Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, and Calvin
as one of Christianity's greatest theologians is the
twentieth century figure, Karl Barth. "2- Relevant to a
study of preaching is the fact that it was the dilemma of
weekly sermon preparation that drove Barth to his study
of Paul's Epistle to the Romans and ultimately to his
theology of the Word. 's Although he left the pastorate
for a theological chair (subsequently teaching at