The reading and preaching of the scriptures in the worship of the Christian church / Hughes Oliphant Old.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

V. 1: The biblical period -- The roots of the Christian ministry of the Word in the worship of Israel -- The preaching of Christ and the apostles -- The second and third centuries -- V. 2: The patristic age -- The flourishing of Greek preaching in the Christian empire--the school of Alexandria -- The Jerusalem lectionary in the fifth century -- The flourishing of Greek preaching in the Christian empire--the school of Antioch -- The Syriac church -- The Latin fathers -- The eternal Gospel in a dying culture -- V. 3: The medieval church -- Byzantine preaching -- The mission to the barbarians -- The shaping of the Roman lectionary -- The Benedictines -- The Cistercians -- The schools -- Franciscan preaching -- The Dominicans -- The German mystics -- The Czech Reform -- The preaching of nominalist pietism -- Preaching in Italy at the birth of the Renaissance -- V. 4: The age of the Reformation -- The Reformation -- The counter-Reformation -- The Puritans -- Anglican preaching -- The flowering of Protestant orthodoxy in Germany -- The flowering of Protestant orthodoxy in France -- The flowering of Protestant orthodoxy in the Netherlands -- The age of Louis XIV -- V. 5: Moderatism, pietism, and awakening -- Moderatism -- The awakenings of eighteenth-century pietism -- New England -- Preaching in the Austro-Hungarian Empire -- Franciscan preaching in Spanish California -- Romanian orthodoxy under the Turks -- The Russian Orthodox Church -- Scotland -- Evangelical Anglicanism -- V. 6: The modern age -- Religious revival in a secularized Europe -- German preaching in the wake of the Enlightenment -- The Evangelical Calvinism of New England -- The old school -- The Victorians -- The Great American School -- The beginning of black preaching -- German preaching in the Mississippi Valley -- Scotland in the nineteenth century -- Southern Baptist preaching -- Europe in crisis -- The war years in Britain, 1914-1960 -- V. 7: Our own time -- The end of the mainline -- Billy Graham (1918-) -- A "new breed" of Presbyterians -- Protestant preaching in black Africa -- Liberation theology in Latin America -- Vatican II and American Catholic preaching -- The Romanian revolution and the preaching of Joan Alexandru -- Black preaching -- The Charismatics -- A new age in Britain -- The megachurch -- The young churches of East Asia.