Dawn DeVries

Dawn DeVries is John Newton Thomas Professor of Systematic Theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. She was a delegate for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to the eighth assembly of the World Council of Churches. She is the editor of the New Westminster Dictionary of Christian Theology.

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Dawn DeVries

While the effects of historical criticism on theology in the modern period have been well documented, their implications for modern preaching have been largely ignored. Dawn DeVries examines the content of and reasoning behind the preaching on the Synoptic Gospels by John Calvin and Friedrich Schleiermacher in order to ascertain their responses to the historical Jesus. By doing so, DeVries demonstrates that the shifting of emphasis in modern preaching from the miraculous aspects of ...
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Publication Date: 01/01/1996