The Jewish Roots Of The Christian Sermon

Source: The Complete Library of Christian Worship, Robert E. Webber, General Editor

The sermon has its unique roots in Jewish tradition and was carried on and explored in the Christian tradition, as this entry demonstrates.

The Beginnings of Preaching

The First Sermon. It can be said that the sermon and spoken word is at the very source and origin of the Jewish experience. Even God began his intervention in the universe with the spoken word. When God said: "Let there be light," it can be said that we have the first sermon with instant results.

To be sure, historians of the...

 

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