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Page 69
[Footnote 43: See the "Call to Theology," _Har. Theo. Rev._, vol. I,
no. 1, pp. 1 ff.]
It is to be remembered that we are not saying that the theologian
makes the saint. I do not believe that. Devils can believe and
tremble; Abelard was no saint. But we are contending that the
great saint is extremely likely to be a theologian. Protestantism,
Methodism, Tractarianism, were chiefly religious movements, interested
in the kind of questions and moved by the sorts of motives which
we have been talking about. They all began within the precincts
of universities. Moreover, the Lord Jesus, consummate mystic,
incomparable artist, was such partly because He was a great theologian
as well. His dealings with scribe and Pharisee furnish some of
the world's best examples of acute and courageous dialectics. His
theological method differed markedly from the academicians of His
day. Nevertheless it was noted that He spoke with an extraordinary
authority. "He gave," as Dr. Peabody also points out, "new scope
and significance to the thought of God, to the nature of man, to the
destiny of the soul, to the meaning of the world. He would have been
reckoned among the world's great theologians if other endowments had
not given Him a higher title."[44]
[Footnote 44: "Call to Theology," _Har. Theo. Rev._, vol. I, no. 1, p.
8.]
It is a higher title to have been the supreme mystic, the perfect
seer. All I have been trying to say is that it is to these sorts
of excellencies that the preacher aspires. But the life of Jesus
supremely sanctions the conviction that preaching upon high and
abstract and even speculative themes and a rigorous intellectual
discipline are chief accompaniments, appropriate and indispensable
aids, to religious insight and to the cultivating of worshipful
feeling. So we close our discussions with the supreme name upon
our lips, leaving the most fragrant memory, the clearest picture,
remembering Him who struck the highest note. It is to His life and
teaching that we humbly turn to find the final sanction for the
distinctively religious values. Who else, indeed, has the words of
Eternal Life?
* * * * *
LYMAN BEECHER LECTURESHIP ON PREACHING
YALE UNIVERSITY
1871-72 Beecher, H.W., Yale Lectures on Preaching, first series.
New York, 1872.
1872-73 Beecher, H.W., Yale Lectures on Preaching, second series.
New York, 1873.
1873-74 Beecher, H.W., Yale Lectures on Preaching, third series.
New York, 1874.
1874-75 Hall, John, God's Word through Preaching. New York, 1875.
1875-76 Taylor, William M., The Ministry of the Word. New York,
1876.
1876-77 Brooks, P., Lectures on Preaching. New York, 1877.
1877-78 Dale, R.W., Nine Lectures on Preaching. New York, 1878.
1878-79 Simpson, M., Lectures on Preaching. New York, 1879.
1879-80 Crosby, H., The Christian Preacher. New York, 1880.
1880-81 Duryea, J.T., and others (not published).
1881-82 Robinson, E.G., Lectures on Preaching. New York, 1883.
1882-83 (No lectures.)
1883-84 Burton, N.J., Yale Lectures on Preaching, and other
writings. New York, 1888.*
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