The Art of Eloquence: The Sacred Rhetoric of Gardner C. Taylor

by Joseph Evans

During his lifetime, Rev. Dr. Gardner C. Taylor was hailed by TIME magazine as the dean of America's black preachers. Newsweek honored him as one of the 12 greatest preachers in the English-speaking world. A civil rights leader, a Presidential Medal of Honor recipient, and a longtime pastor, Taylor was called “the poet laureate of American Protestantism.”In this critical volume, scholar and pastor Joseph Evans analyzes the art of Taylor's preaching according to the five classical canons of rhetoric, celebrating in particular his excellence in narrative eloquence, which was the heart of his persuasive proclamation. Through a close reading of Taylor's sermons and careful scholarship in the discipline of rhetoric, Evans provides homileticians and rhetoricians alike with an incisive and accessible understanding of the oratorical brilliance of the man whose eloquence transcended theological boundaries and sociopolitical and cultural constructs.

Genres: Communication

231 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 1, 2020

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[Rob O'Lynn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was asked by the publisher to review this book for an endorsement. The endorsement has not yet been approved for publication. However, I can say that I thoroughly enjoyed this discussion of rhetoric through the master preaching of Gardner C. Taylor.