The New Interpreter's® Handbook of Preaching - Hardcover

Barton, Casey; Dianne Bergant; Conover, Robert E; Devries, Mark; Dutcher- Walls, Patricia; Eddinger, Terry; Hulst, Mary S; Immink, Gerrit; Malina, Bruce; Olson, Dennis T; Park, Eung Chun; Quicke, Michael; Reid, Barbara; Taylor, Barbara Brown; Tull, Patricia K.; Van Reken, Calvin P; Vanderwell, Howard; Wardlaw, Don M; Williams, Michael E

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0687055563 ISBN 13: 9780687055562

Publisher: Abingdon Press, 2008

Synopsis

The New Interpreter’s Handbook of Preaching is a major reference tool for preaching, with articles on every facet of Christian sermon preparation and delivery. This resource is both scholarly and practical. It focuses on the most distinctive feature and greatest strength of homiletics as a discipline: It is rooted in interdisciplinary scholarship and it develops theory geared to practice. Its theory arises out of the study of both excellent preaching past and present and actual sermon preparation and composition. When theory and practice critique each other, it is possible to produce guidelines that assist greater excellence and economy in preaching the gospel. Excellence in standards is an area in which homiletics needs to grow, and this project will be both a means to encourage and develop it. A guiding question throughout will be, Will it preach? The answers will be offered in the sense that “here is something that works well,” rather than “here is something to try.”

Preachers will turn to this resource with the expectation that they will find scholarly treatment of topics, brief bibliographies of relevant key books and articles, along with practical methodological suggestions for preachers to employ. The contributors are homileticians, preachers, and writers in various disciplines who are committed to the pulpit through practice.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul Scott Wilson is Professor of Homiletics at Emmanuel College of the University of Toronto. He is one of the most respected and recognized teachers of homiletics in North America. He is the author of a number of books, including The Practice of Preaching, Imagination of the Heart, God Sense: Reading the Bible for Preaching, and The Four Pages of the Sermon, all published by Abingdon Press. He is the General Editor of The New Interpreter's Handbook of Preaching.

About this edition

• Publisher: Abingdon Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0687055563
• ISBN 13: 9780687055562
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 506