Publications

These are some of my academic Journal publications which relate to the practice of preaching. You will see a performative and rhetorical interest.

“Preaching and the Missionary Intention of the Church”, College of Preachers Journal, January 2004.

“Help! There’s a Young Person in My Congregation: Cross Generational Preaching”, College of Preachers Journal, July 2005.

“Open-Air Preaching: Performing Beyond the Walls”, in Worship and Liturgy in Context: Studies and Case Studies in Contemporary Christian Practice, ed. by Duncan B. Forrester and Doug Gay (London: SCM 2009), 246-258

“George MacLeod’s Open-Air Preaching: Performance and Counter-Performance”, Theology in Scotland, Spring 2011, XVIII (3), 21-33, https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/10023/5649/Blythe_2011_TiS_George.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

“A Theology of Preaching”, College of Preachers Magazine, October 2013.

“Collaborative Preaching and Community Theatre’ Journal of European Baptist Studies“, 14 (3), May 2014, 5-21, https://www.ibts.eu/assets/files/publications/collaborative-preaching-as-community-theatre-by-stuart-blythe.pdf

“James Haldane’s Open-Air Preaching, 1797-1805”, Baptist Quarterly, 46 (1) January 2015, 27–43, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1179/0005576X14Z.0000000003

“Open-Air Preaching as Radical Street Performance”, Journal of European Baptist Studies, 16 (1) September 2015, 5-26, https://archive.org/details/jebs-16-1-2015/page/46/mode/2up

“I Want to Preach Like a Woman: Catherine Booth as Antagonistic Subject”, Baptistic Theologies 9:1 (2017), 15-32, https://www.academia.edu/36438146/I_want_to_preach_like_a_woman_Catherine_Booth_as_antagonistic_subject

“OPEN-AIR PREACHING: A LONG AND DIVERSE TRADITION”, Perichoresis, Volume 16. Issue 1 (2018), 61–80, https://sciendo.com/downloadpdf/journals/perc/16/1/article-p61.pdf

“The Place of Preaching in the Church’s Mission: Luke 4:16-30”, Journal of the Evangelical Homiletics Society, 19:2, (2019), 46-67,  https://journal.ehomiletics.org/article/the-place-of-preaching-in-the-churchs-mission-luke-416-30/

“Teaching Preaching as Practical Theology”, Journal of European Baptist Studies, 21:1 (2021), https://jebs.eu/ojs/index.php/jebs/article/view/697

“George Calling: A Rhetorical Analysis of Four Broadcast Sermons Preached by the Rev. George F. MacLeod from Govan in 1934”, Religions 13:5 (2022), https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/13/5/420/htm

“God’s Rhetoric: Preaching and Covid-19 in the Atlantic Provinces, Canada”, Journal of Baptist Theology in Context 5 (2022),  https://www.jbtc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/JBTC-Issue-5.1.pdf

“Preaching as a Rhetorical Act: Practices and Possibilities with Reference to the Rev. Dr. John Gladstone (1921–2005)”, McMaster Journal of Theology and Ministry,(2021–2022) 3–36, http://mcmasterdivinity.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/23.MJTM_.3-36-Blythe.pdf

“The Metaphors We Preach By: Preaching as Graffiti”, JEBS 22:2 (2022), 91-112.