Griffin Swihart’s Reviews > As One Without Authority: Revised and with New Sermons > Status Update

“Everyone lives inductively, not deductively…the minister says “all men are mortal,” and meets drowsy agreement; he announces that “Mr. Brown’s son is dying” and the church becomes the church.”

“When he begins to ask himself why the Gospel should always be impaled upon the frame of Aristotelian logic, when his muscles twitch and his nerves tingle to mount the pulpit not with three points but with the Gospel as narrative or parable or poem or myth or song in spite of the heavy recollection of his training in homiletics, then perhaps the preacher stands at the threshold of new pulpit power” (p45)