Early Adventists’ Homiletical Principles and the Expository-vs-Thematic Sermons Discussion

• Autores: Marcos Blanco
• Localización: DavarLogos, ISSN 1666-7832, Vol. 16, Nº. 1, 2017, págs. 29-60
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The current controversy about what must be considered as authentic “Adventist preaching” evidences the persistence of the dispute between “expository versus topical preaching” in Adventists circles. In this context, it is important to ask what were the homiletical principles of early Adventists especially those related to the structure of the sermon— and what do these principles have to say about the current expository-versustopical-preaching controversy.The purpose of this article is to present and analyze the homiletical principles of early Adventists in order to identify Adventists homiletical principles and practices as either expository/ textual or topical/thematic oriented, and to draw some relevant conclusions for the current controversy about the proper method of preaching among Adventists. Since early Adventists wrote little about their homiletical principles, this study identifies these principles inductively through two methods. First, early Adventist homiletical principles are examined through their hermeneutics,because the homiletical methodology includes a previous stage of hermeneutics, in other words, people usually preach in the same way that they study their Bible. Second, the material result of early Adventists’ homiletical principles —their recorded sermons— are also analyzed in order to identify the operative homiletical principles.