Text Message: The Centrality of Scripture in Preaching

ISBN 10: 1498261604 / ISBN 13: 9781498261609

Published by Wipf and Stock, 2014

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Title: Text Message: The Centrality of Scripture in...

Publisher: Wipf and Stock

Publication Date: 2014

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

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Synopsis:

Preaching has fallen on hard times with many questioning its relevance and even its validity as a New Testament practice. This symposium of specially commissioned essays draws together an international team of thirteen scholars and pastors to address the importance of textual preaching in the history and life of the early church, the historic church, and the contemporary church. Contributions include essays on Old Testament preaching, preaching in Hebrews, gender-sensitive preaching, preaching in the theology of Jonathan Edwards, Charles Spurgeon, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and in Eastern Orthodoxy. It also includes essays on a range of homiletical challenges that textual preaching raises for the contemporary preacher, including genre, preaching without notes, inhabiting the text, and preaching without platitudes. A final reflection by Dave Hansen on the state of textual preaching rounds out the collection. The preaching of the gospel stands at the heart of Christian praxis. These essays make a vital contribution to the recovery of the importance of preaching, focused on the text of Scripture. Written with an eye to the pastor and practitioner as well as those in the pews and in the classroom, this is a book that should appeal to a wide range of readers.

About the Authors:

Ian Stackhouse is the senior pastor of Millmead, Guildford Baptist Church in the UK. He teaches in seminaries both in the UK and abroad, and has authored several books, including Praying Psalms (Cascade, 2018) and Letters to a Young Pastor (Cascade, 2019).

Oliver D. Crisp is Professor of Systematic Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. He is the author or editor of fourteen books, including Revisioning Christology (2011) and Jonathan Edwards on God and Creation (2012).