aving surveyed the various influences affecting Morgan as a person and a preacher, and having noted specific ministerial experiences, the broader idealogical context of his preaching and his own theological positions, I will now consider the third element of the preaching situation: the message, Morgan's preached sermons. A chapter will be given to his method of preparation and hermeneutics; another to surveying his themes; a third to his homiletical strategies; and a final chapter will be given to evaluation.
he main depository of Morgan's sermons is The Westminster Pulpit, a ten volume collection of sermons from his ministry at Westminster which his associate, Arthur Marsh, is largely responsible for publishing. There are two hundred and sixty sermons in this collection capturing a wide cross-section of themes and texts upon which Morgan preached. Special attention has been paid to these sermons. Yet all of his published works are actually sermons because his preaching ministry fed his writing ministry. As William Barbour, President of the Fleming H. Revell publishing company has said, "He preached his books" (Katt, p. 142). The sermon manuscripts were always edited and polished for publication and wider distribution but the sermons remain essentially intact. The present chapter deals with his method of preparing both for the task of preaching in general and For specific sermons. Morgan had certain convictions about the preparation of the preacher as a person, about specific methods of sermon preparation and about hermeneutics. He considered all three integral to prepared preaching.
aving surveyed the various influences affecting Morgan as a person and a preacher, and having noted specific ministerial experiences, the broader idealogical context of his preaching and his own theological positions, I will now consider the third element of the preaching situation: the message, Morgan's preached sermons. A chapter will be given to his method of preparation and hermeneutics; another to surveying his themes; a third to his homiletical strategies; and a final chapter will be given to evaluation.
he main depository of Morgan's sermons is The Westminster Pulpit, a ten volume collection of sermons from his ministry at Westminster which his associate, Arthur Marsh, is largely responsible for publishing. There are two hundred and sixty sermons in this collection capturing a wide cross-section of themes and texts upon which Morgan preached. Special attention has been paid to these sermons. Yet all of his published works are actually sermons because his preaching ministry fed his writing ministry. As William Barbour, President of the Fleming H. Revell publishing company has said, "He preached his books" (Katt, p. 142). The sermon manuscripts were always edited and polished for publication and wider distribution but the sermons remain essentially intact. The present chapter deals with his method of preparing both for the task of preaching in general and For specific sermons. Morgan had certain convictions about the preparation of the preacher as a person, about specific methods of sermon preparation and about hermeneutics. He considered all three integral to prepared preaching.