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Puritan Board Post-Graduate
There is a very good article in this weeks reformation 21 online magazine "A Classical Analysis of Puritan Preaching" Article by Joseph Steele August 2010
Joseph Steele asks what exactly is Puritan preaching? How may it be properly distinguished from other forms of preaching? Why has its influence been so palatably felt by succeeding generations? In answering such questions Steele invoke a somewhat atypical method of inquiry. To the his knowledge, no such inquiry has hitherto been attempted.
You may read the article by going to the reformation 21 website:
reformation 21 :: the Online Magazine of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals
Steele introduces his article by saying: Reformed Christians are indebted to the Puritans for a variety of reasons, not the least of which for their contribution to preaching. In many ways, Puritan preaching was the very heartbeat of the Puritan movement. It would be no exaggeration to say that without Puritan preaching there would have been no Puritans. To quote Irvonwy Morgan, "Puritanism in the last resort must be assessed in terms of the pulpit."[1]
1 Quoted in Joseph A. Pipa's, "William Perkins and the Development of Puritan Preaching," (Doctoral Thesis Submitted to Westminster Theological Seminary, 1985), 216-217.
Joseph Steele asks what exactly is Puritan preaching? How may it be properly distinguished from other forms of preaching? Why has its influence been so palatably felt by succeeding generations? In answering such questions Steele invoke a somewhat atypical method of inquiry. To the his knowledge, no such inquiry has hitherto been attempted.
You may read the article by going to the reformation 21 website:
reformation 21 :: the Online Magazine of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals
Steele introduces his article by saying: Reformed Christians are indebted to the Puritans for a variety of reasons, not the least of which for their contribution to preaching. In many ways, Puritan preaching was the very heartbeat of the Puritan movement. It would be no exaggeration to say that without Puritan preaching there would have been no Puritans. To quote Irvonwy Morgan, "Puritanism in the last resort must be assessed in terms of the pulpit."[1]
1 Quoted in Joseph A. Pipa's, "William Perkins and the Development of Puritan Preaching," (Doctoral Thesis Submitted to Westminster Theological Seminary, 1985), 216-217.