Preaching for today - Hardcover

Clyde E. Fant

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060623314 ISBN 13: 9780060623319

Publisher: Harper & Row, 1975

Synopsis

Christian / * Preaching as theologically significant ------- 3.) Toward Inca national preaching: * Homiletical heresy / * The two poles / * Midpoint: communication ------- 4.) We are men like yourselves: * Humanity: preventing despair / * Humanity: permitting testimony / * Humanity and personality ------- 5.) Credibility and charisma: * Expertness / * Trustworthiness / * Charisma: not the coin-in-the-fish's mouth of preaching ------- 6.) Impact, communion and shock: * Communion / * Impact / * Shock ------- 7.) The word becomes flesh: * The message: substance / * The message: shape ------- 8.) Out of the Gutenberg galaxy: * The oral manuscript / * The sermon brief ------- 9.) From the study to the pulpit: * It's Monday: or, not again! / * How do I find something to preach about? / * How do I get from a text to a sermon? From an idea to a text? / * And the sermon was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep / * Is an outline necessary, evil, or a necessary evil? / * What about introductions, conclusions, titles? / * Of time and the river / * How do I do it? / * How far ahead should I plan? and how? ------- 10.) Some said it thundered: upper garble and lower garble: * Upper garble / * Lower garble ------- 11.) They listened the more willingly: * Subjectivity and objectivity in delivery / * Contact point.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper & Row
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0060623314
• ISBN 13: 9780060623319
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 196