Homiletics, and Pastoral Theology. E-book. Formato PDF - 9780243692897

Importance of a Natural Rhetoric which may be found in his Literary Essays, pp. 79 — 147. As a further illustration of this theory, and also of the principles laid down concerning the funda mental properties of style in the third chapter of his Homiletics, the writer now publishes in the Appendix to this edition a chapter which he has translated from another work of Theremin, upon Demosthenes the greatest Grecian orator, and Massillon the greatest French preacher. He would call attention to this latter work of There min, entitled, Demosthenes und Massillon, as containing the best analysis he has yet seen of the characteristics of the Demosthenean eloquence. Lord Brougham s Dissertation on the Eloquence of the Ancients, with his accompanying trans lations and explanations of some of the orations of Demosthenes is discriminating, and evinces a strong sympathy with this dense, vehement, and overwhelming style of oratory. But the analysis of it by the German theologian and preacher is more profound and comprehensive than that of the English statesman and orator. The reader will find it an uncommonly instructive and stim ulating work in the department of rhetoric and eloquence.