A history of preaching / O.C. Edwards, Jr.

Pt. 1. Homiletical origins. The earliest Christian preaching
The homily takes shape
Eloquence in Cappadocia
Homiletics and catechetics: Chrysostom and others
Augustine: the sign reader
Pt. 2. The Middle Ages. The trek to the Middle Ages
The early Medieval period
The Renaissance of the eleventh and twelfth centuries
The explosion of preaching in the thireteenth and fourteenth centuries
A homiletic miscellany
Pt. 3. From the Renaissance and Reformation to the Enlightenment. Erasmus and the humanists
The Reformation preaching of Luther and Melanchthon
Calvin and the Reform tradition
The preaching of Catholic Reform
Upheaval in Britain
Pt. 4. The modern era: from the Restoration to World War I. The dawn of modernity (A): the Restoration and the Age of Reason
The dawn of modernity (B): the recovery of feeling
American reveille
The second call
"The fruits of fervor" (A): among African Americans
"The fruits of fervor" (B): "Your daughters shall prophesy"
The preaching of Romanticism in Britain
Transatlantic Romanticism
The triumph of Romanticism
Pt. 5. The century of change. Pastoral counseling through preaching
The resurgence of orthodoxy
Preaching as an element of worship
A homiletical epiphany: the emergence of African American preaching in majority consciousness
Mainstream prophecy
A great company of women
Evangelism in an electronic age
A crisis in communication.