Miguel Gonzalez-Feliciano’s review of Preaching Jesus: The New Directions for Homiletics in Hans Frei's Postliberal Theology > Likes and Comments

Thanks for the review. Could you share one way your thinking was exposed and changed?

Absolutely! Often when I was approaching narrative in terms of preaching I would be more plot centered, which Campbell argues can lead to a narrative that isn't centered primarily on "the unsubstitutable character of Jesus of Nazareth." Campbell, in the vein of Frei, argues for an approach that is centered on the character rather than plot.

Campbell also offered some interesting views using Lindbeck's cultural-linguistic model for building up the church in a view I hadn't considered often in preaching.

So my thoughts which were exposed and changed related to how unintentionally, I was focusing on narrative plot which sometimes reduced Jesus to being just another character in the plot of the Bible. If I'm getting Campbell right, and I might not be, this can lead to a form of narrative preaching where any good moral character could stand in the place of Jesus, and thus remove the centrality of Christ.

While studying narrative preaching, I had n't heard the contrast between character and plot put in this way before.