A Legacy of Preaching, Volume One--Apostles to the Revivalists explores the history and development of preaching through a biographical and theological examination of its most important preachers. Instead of teaching the history of preaching from the perspective of movements and eras, each contributor tells the story of a particular preacher in history, allowing the preachers from the past to come alive and instruct us through their lives, theologies, and methods of preaching.

Each chapter introduces readers to a key figure in the history of preaching, followed by an analysis of the theological views that shaped their preaching, their methodology of sermon preparation and delivery, and an appraisal of the significant contributions they have made to the history of preaching. This diverse collection of familiar and lesser-known individuals provides a detailed and fascinating look at what it has meant to communicate the gospel over the past two thousand years. By looking at how the gospel has been communicated over time and across different cultures, pastors, scholars, and homiletics students can enrich their own understanding and practice of preaching for application today. 

Volume One covers the period from the apostles to the revivalists and profiles thirty preachers including:



Paul by Eric Rowe
Peter by David R. Beck
Melito of Sardis by Paul A. Hartog
Origen of Alexandria by Stephen O. Presley
Ephrem the Syrian by Jonathan J. Armstrong
Basil of Caesarea by Jonathan Morgan
John Chrysostom by Paul A. Hartog
Augustine of Hippo by Edward L. Smither
Gregory the Great by W. Brian Shelton
Bernard of Clairvaux by Elizabeth Hoare
Francis of Assisi by Timothy D. Holder
Saint Bonaventure by G. R. Evans
Meister Eckhart by Daniel Farca?
Johannes Tauler by Byard Bennett
John Huss by Mark A. Howell
Girolamo Savonarola by W. Brian Shelton
Martin Luther by Robert Kolb
Ulrich Zwingli by Kevin L. King
Balthasar Hubmaier by Corneliu C. Simu?
William Tyndale by Scott A. Wenig
John Calvin by Anthony N. S. Lane
William Perkins by Dwayne Milioni
Richard Baxter by Simon Vibert
John Owen by Henry M. Knapp
John Bunyan by Larry Steven McDonald
Matthew Henry by William C. Watson and W. Ross Hastings
François Fénelon by Martin I. Klauber
Jonathan Edwards by Gerald R. McDermott
John Wesley by Michael Pasquarello III
George Whitefield by Bill Curtis and Timothy McKnight

Volume Two, available separately, covers the period from the Enlightenment to the present day and profiles thirty-one preachers including Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Karl Barth, John Stott, Martin Luther King Jr., Billy Graham, and more.

Foreword by: Timothy George