his two volume hardcover set was first published in 1905, and was written as a tribute to Dargan's homiletics professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, John Albert Broadus. Dargan later became a colleague and then the successor to Broadus in the chair of Homiletics at SBTS in Louisville, KY. The inspiration for these volumes came from the yearly "delightful lectures on the History of Preaching" from Broadus. "Under his inspiring teaching my interest as a student was awakened in the subject, and when years afterward it fell to me first to share his labors of instruction and then to succeed them, I became more and more deeply interested in the historical part of the course in homiletics."

Volume 1 Contents

PERIOD I - AD 70 - 430
Chap. 1 - Preaching during the First Three Centuries
Chap. 2 - The Culmination of Ancient Preaching in the Fourth Century

PERIOD II - 430 - 1095
Chap. 3 - The Decline of Preaching in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries
Chap. 4 - The Low Estate of Preaching in the Seventh and Eight Centuries
Chap. 5 - Voices in the Night, or Preaching during the Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Centuries

PERIOD III - 1095 - 1361
Chap. 6 - Heralds of the Dawn of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
Chap. 7 - The Culmination of the Mediaeval Preaching in the Thirteenth Century
Chap. 8 - Decline and Mysticism in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

PERIOD IV - 1361 - 1572
Chap. 9 - The Renaissance, and Preaching in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
Chap. 10 - Preachers of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
Chap. 11 - The Reformation, and Preaching in the Sixteenth Century
Chap. 12 - Preachers of the Reformation in Germany and German Switzerland
Chap. 13 - Preachers of the Reformation in France and other European Countries
Chap. 14 - Preachers of the Reformation in England and Scotland
Chap. 15 - Roman Catholic Preaching and Preachers in the Sixteenth Century
Chap. 16 - Preaching at the Threshold of the Modern World

Volume 1 Contents

PART I THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Chap. 1 - Preaching In Europe at the End of the Sixteenth Century
Chap. 2 - Preaching in Southern Europe During the Seventeenth Century
Chap. 3 - Seventeenth Century Preaching in Germany and Northern Europe
Chap. 4 - The Classic Age of the French Pulpit
Chap. 5 - The Classic Age of the British Pulpit

PART II THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Chap. 6 - General View of the Eighteenth Century. Catholic Preaching in Southern Europe
Chap. 7 - German Preaching in the Eighteenth Century
Chap. 8 - French Preaching in the Eighteenth Century
Chap. 9 - Dutch and Scandinavian Preaching in the Eighteenth Century
Chap. 10 - British Preaching in the Eighteenth Century

PART III THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Chap. 11 - Preaching in the Nineteenth Century. The Pulpit of Southern Europe
Chap. 12 - The German Pulpit of the Nineteenth Century
Chap. 13 - The Dutch and Scandinavian Pulpits of the Nineteenth Century
Chap. 14 - The French Pulpit of the Nineteenth Century
Chap. 15 - The British Pulpit of the Nineteenth Century
1) The First Third of the Century, 1801-1833
2) The Middle Period of the Century, 1833-1868
3) The Closing Years of the Century, 1868-1900