Our Sufficiency Is of God: Essays on Preaching in Honor of Gardner C. Taylor

by Timothy George (editor), James Earl Massey (Editor), Robert Smith Jr. (Editor)

CD contains "the Beeson Divinity School Inaugural William E. Conger, Jr. Lectures on Biblical Preaching, by Gardner C. Taylor" --from cover, p. [2].

342 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 2010

About the author

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Timothy George is Dean at Beeson Divinity School, Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. He is also editor, together with his wife Denise, of the Library of Baptist Classics series. He previously was an associate professor of church history and historical theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky.

Reviews

[Lukas Stock · Rating 2 out of 5]

Fine. Some enjoyable and helpful essays, mostly blah though. Just makes me wish I had just read a volume of Taylor’s sermons instead. Would be a much better use of time.

[Zack Clemmons · Rating 2 out of 5]

A helpful biographical intro, a handful of decent essays. Much better to just read/hear Taylor's sermons.

[Ryan Linkous · Rating 3 out of 5]

After reading this book, I'm mainly interested to read/listen to some Gardner C. Taylor sermons. Had I done so prior to reading this book, I probably would have appreciated it more. Most of the chapters examine one aspect of preaching (creativity, singularity, etc.). Some of the contributions were repetitive, others were enlightening. I thought some of the chapters on prophetic preaching were very helpful including:
David G. Buttrick, "When Preachers Preach, Does God Speak?"
Richard Lischer, "Anointed with Fire: The Structure of Prophecy in the Sermons of Martin Luther King, Jr."
Martha Simmons and Brad R. Baxton, "What Happened to Sacred Eloquence (Celebrating the Ministry of Gardner C. Taylor)"
Robert Smith, Jr., "Preaching as a Contemplative Theological Task."