Reading for Preaching: The Preacher in Conversation with Storytellers, Biographers, Poets and Journalists
Language: English
Published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. (edition ), 2013
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- Title
- Reading for Preaching: The Preacher in Conversation with Storytellers, Biographers, Poets and Journalists
- Author
- Plantinga, Cornelius
- Publisher
- Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. (edition )
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0802870775
- ISBN 13
- 9780802870773
Plantinga -- himself a master preacher -- shows how a wide reading program can benefit preachers. First, he says, good reading generates delight, and the preacher who enters the world of delight goes with God. Good reading can also help tune the preacher’s ear for language -- his or her primary tool. General reading can enlarge the preacher’s sympathies for people and situations that she or he had previously known nothing about. And, above all, the preacher who reads widely has the chance to become wise.
This beautifully written book will benefit not just preachers but anyone interested in the wisdom to be derived from reading.
Works that Plantinga interacts with in the book include
- The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
- Enrique's Journey, by Sonia Nazario
- Silence, by Shusaku Endo
- "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" by Leo Tolstoy
- "Narcissus Leaves the Pool" by Joseph Epstein
- Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo
. . . and many more!
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About the Author
Cornelius Plantinga is president emeritus of Calvin Theological Seminary and has also served as a senior research fellow at the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship. His many publications include Beyond Doubt, Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be, Engaging God’s World, Reading for Preaching, and Morning and Evening Prayers.
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