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The Web of Preaching: New Options In Homiletic Method
Preaching is not as simple as it may appear. The preacher today is confronted with a dizzying array of homiletic methods and approaches, each holding important insights into how to proclaim the Good News. While pastors wish to learn from these different ways of preaching, they often do not know where to begin (Who are the best representatives of a given approach? How do the different methods relate to one another? How has the preaching scene changed in recent years?). In The Web of Preaching , Richard Eslinger addresses these and other questions about contemporary approaches to preaching.
Surveying the most important current theories of preaching, he argues that no homiletic method can be understood on its own. The different schools of thought on preaching all intersect at such common points as Scripture, narrative, and the role of preaching in worship. A strength in one compensates for a weakness in another, and seen together they form one comprehensive "web of preaching."
This book is a follow-up to Eslinger's earlier A New Hearing , which has been a standard text in preaching courses since its publication in 1987.
Surveying the most important current theories of preaching, he argues that no homiletic method can be understood on its own. The different schools of thought on preaching all intersect at such common points as Scripture, narrative, and the role of preaching in worship. A strength in one compensates for a weakness in another, and seen together they form one comprehensive "web of preaching."
This book is a follow-up to Eslinger's earlier A New Hearing , which has been a standard text in preaching courses since its publication in 1987.
310 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 2002
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June 23, 2018
It set out to give an overview of preaching, but limited itself to the narrative style. There are so many other options to be included in this so called "web" of preaching.
The example sermons chosen are mostly mediocre and often don't exemplify the style he's speaking of nearly as well as they could.
The chapter on African American preaching was very good, shedding light on a topic most homiletics books ignore.
If you want an overview of narrative preaching, this will take you fairly deep into some of the options, but ultimately it was a book of theory presented in an often boring style that had no conclusion, nor any recommendation for how to utilize any of these types of narrative in combination or synthesis.
The example sermons chosen are mostly mediocre and often don't exemplify the style he's speaking of nearly as well as they could.
The chapter on African American preaching was very good, shedding light on a topic most homiletics books ignore.
If you want an overview of narrative preaching, this will take you fairly deep into some of the options, but ultimately it was a book of theory presented in an often boring style that had no conclusion, nor any recommendation for how to utilize any of these types of narrative in combination or synthesis.
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