Saddlebags, City Streets and Cyberspace:
A History of Preaching in the Churches of Christ

by Michael Casey
Abilene: Abilene Christian University Press, 1995
ISBN 0-89112-017-3

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CONTENTS

Introduction (ix)
1. Pentecost: The Stone Tradition and Its Transformation (13)
2. Come, Let Us Reason Together: The Rational Tradition (25)
3. Professionals and Plowboys: The Rise of Institutionalization (37)
4. Skinning the Sects: The Debate Tradition (47)
5. Grace in the Face of Fire: The Irenic Tradition (57)
6. We Have Arrived: The Legacy of the Hardeman Tabernacle Sermons (75)
7. The Kingdoms of This World: The Rise of the Political Pulpit (91)
Photographs (103)
8. The "Soft" Gospel: The Impact of Speech Training (111)
9. Seeking Enlightenment: The Scholarly Tradition of Preaching (125)
10. Say Amen Brother! The African American Tradition (137)
11. Exodus:The Rise of the Evangelical Tradition (157)
12. Got a Story? The Electronic Gospel (177)
13. What's Next? Into the Next Millennium (191)
List of Preachers (205)
Index to Photographs (209)

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