The End Of Words: The Language Of Reconciliation In A Culture Of Violence (The Lyman Beecher Lectures In Preaching) - Hardcover

Lischer, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802829325 ISBN 13: 9780802829320

Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co, 2005

Synopsis

After the horrors and violence of the twentieth century, words can seem futile. In this reflection on the place of preaching today, Richard Lischer recognizes that our mass-communication culture is exhausted by words. Facing up to language's disappointments and dead ends, he opens a path to its true end.
With chapters on vocation, interpretation, narration, and reconciliation, The End of Words shows how faithful reading of Scripture rather than flashy performance paves the way for effective preaching. Lischer challenges conventional storytelling with a deeper and more biblical view of narrative preaching. The ultimate purpose of preaching, he argues, is to speak God's peace, the message of reconciliation.
While Lischer's End of Words will surely be invaluable to pastors and preachers, his honest, readable style will appeal to anyone concerned with speaking Christianly.

About this title

About the Author:

Richard Lischer is James T. and Alice Mead Cleland Professor of Preaching at Duke Divinity School.

Review:

"Richard Lischer is a master of words who has been mastered by the Word. With eloquent verbal precision and self-evident love for the homiletical vocation, with cruciform Lutheran theology and gentle Midwestern wit, he recalls us to the chief ends of preaching." - William H. Willimon

About this edition

• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0802829325
• ISBN 13: 9780802829320
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 179