The New Psychology And The Preacher

Author : Charles S. Gardner
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330276860
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (768 download)

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Download or read book Psychology and Preaching written by Charles S. Gardner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Psychology and Preaching The field of educational psychology has been very thoroughly worked over, though the last word has by no means been said. The help which teachers have derived from it is very great, and no one now is considered equipped for that noble profession who has not mastered its principles. But so far as my knowledge extends there have been few serious efforts to apply modern psychology to preaching. Indeed, the statement might be made even more nearly absolute without doing violence to facts. There have been homiletical works almost without number, applying the formal rules of logic and rhetoric to sermon-making, and books on elocution are even more numerous. But the works discussing the preparation and delivery of sermons rarely, if ever, approach the subject from the standpoint of modern functional psychology. The psychological conceptions underlying most of these treatises belong to a stage of psychological thought long since past. But there seems to be just as much reason for applying the principles of modern psychology to preaching as for applying them to teaching. And the works on educational psychology will not suffice for this purpose, although they are often suggestive and helpful to the preacher. In some respects educational and homiletical psychology coincide, but they are by no means coextensive; and when they cover the same ground there are of necessity important differences of emphasis. In this book some aspects of the psychology of religion are discussed, because they lie within the scope of the authors plan; but the book is not a treatise on the psychology of religion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.