Required Textbooks: Michael Pasquarello III, Sacred Rhetoric: Preaching as a Theological and Pastoral Practice of the Church, Richard Lischer, ed., The Company of Preachers; Irenaeus, The Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching; Augustine of Hippo, Instruction To Beginners; Simon Tugwell, ed., The First Dominicans; Jaroslav Pelikan, Divine Rhetoric; Deitrich Bonhoeffer, Worldly Preaching. In addition, students are encouraged to consult, Hugh Oliphant Old, The Reading and Preaching of Scripture in the Worship of the Christian Church Vols. I - VI. The Biblical, Patristic, Medieval, Reformation, Pietist, and Modern Periods.https://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/1189/thumbnail.jp