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c. The conclusion or peroration of a sermon
– Introduction
a) The terminology used for the conclusion
Austin Phelps, The Theory of Preaching, (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1882), p. 454.
b) The necessity for the conclusion
Robert L. Dabney, Sacred Rhetoric, (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1979), pp. 168-169.
c) The crucial importance of the conclusion
John W. Etter, The Preacher and His Sermon, (Dayton, OH: United Brethren Publishing House, 1888), pp. 365-367.
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1) The goals or functions of the conclusion
a) Riveting to the minds of your hearers the essential content of the sermon
b) Pressing home to the consciousness and consciences of the hearers the moral and emotional thrust of the sermon
Robert L. Dabney, Sacred Rhetoric, (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1979), p. 178.
Robert L. Dabney, Sacred Rhetoric, (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1979), pp. 234-235.
c) Appealing to the consciences and wills of the hearers to obey the volitional demands of the sermon
Robert L. Dabney, Sacred Rhetoric, (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1979), p. 174.
Summary
B. M. Palmer, The Life and Letters of James Henley Thornwell, (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1974), pp. 547-549.
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2) The means to attain these goals
a) By recapitulation
1- With brevity
2- With restriction to the foregoing materials
3- With perspicuity
4- With climactic order
Robert L. Dabney, Sacred Rhetoric, (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1979), pp. 169-170.
b) By the use of inference
c) By specific delineations of the demands of the truth considered
d) By direct appeals to the conscience and will
It sounds like unit 4, lecture 9 is the same as unit 4, lecture 10.
Lecture 10 is not following the written outline about the conclusion of a sermon.
Thank you for this.