Text message : the centrality of scripture in preaching /

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 histor...

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Other Authors / Creators:Stackhouse, Ian, editor.
Crisp, Oliver, editor.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Cambridge : Lutterworth Press, 2014.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Thomas Long
  • Introduction / Ian Stackhouse
  • Part one: BIBLICAL AND THEOLOGICAL
  • Hebrews as a Model for Expository Pastoral Preaching / Philip Greenslade
  • Christ the Sermon: The Importance of the Text in Bonhoeffer's Lectures on Preaching / Ian Stackhouse
  • Prophetic Preaching from Old Testament Narrative Texts / Steven D. Mathewson
  • Preaching The Darkest Psalm (Psalm 88) / David M. Howard, Jr.
  • Gender Sensitive Preaching: Reading as a Woman / Emma Ineson
  • Part two: HISTORICAL
  • Jonathan Edwards on Preaching / Oliver D. Crisp
  • The Bible for The Masses: The Popular Preaching of C.H. Spurgeon / Peter Morden
  • Homiletics, and Biblical Fidelity: An Ecclesial Approach to Orthodox Preaching / Andrew Walker
  • Part three: TEXTUAL
  • Living with the Text / Ian Stackhouse
  • Defamiliarization: Purging our Preaching of Platitudes / Karen Case-Green
  • Preaching without Notes / Robert May
  • Genre Sensitive Preaching / David Ridder
  • From Text to Message: The Text Living in the Preacher / John Woods
  • CODA
  • Every Sermon Fights a Battle / David Hansen.