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Subtitle: the centrality of scripture in preaching
By: edited by Ian Stackhouse and Oliver Crisp
Publisher: The Lutterworth Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780718893514
Subjects: Religion; Preaching
Description: This collection of essays on preaching by an international group of scholars and pastors shares more than a common subject matter. Running like a river through these chapters is the vision of preaching as a faithful craft; that is, as a skilled and complex practice possessing standards of excellence, embedded in a rich tradition, and performed out of deep theological conviction.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-238).
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Thomas Long; title: Introduction  -- Ian Stackhouse; title: Part one: BIBLICAL AND THEOLOGICAL: Hebrews as a Model for Expository Pastoral Preaching  -- Philip Greenslade; title: Christ the Sermon: The Importance of the Text in Bonhoeffer's Lectures on Preaching  -- Ian Stackhouse; title: Prophetic Preaching from Old Testament Narrative Texts  -- Steven D. Mathewson; title: Preaching The Darkest Psalm (Psalm 88)  -- David M. Howard, Jr.; title: Gender Sensitive Preaching: Reading as a Woman  -- Emma Ineson; title: Part two: HISTORICAL: Jonathan Edwards on Preaching  -- Oliver D. Crisp; title: The Bible for The Masses: The Popular Preaching of C.H. Spurgeon  -- Peter Morden; title: Homiletics, and Biblical Fidelity: An Ecclesial Approach to Orthodox Preaching  -- Andrew Walker; title: Part three: TEXTUAL: Living with the Text  -- Ian Stackhouse; title: Defamiliarization: Purging our Preaching of Platitudes  -- Karen Case-Green; title: Preaching without Notes  -- Robert May; title: Genre Sensitive Preaching  -- David Ridder; title: From Text to Message: The Text Living in the Preacher  -- John Woods; title: CODA: Every Sermon Fights a Battle -- David Hansen.