Reading for Preaching: The Preacher in Conversation with Storytellers, Biographers, Poets and Journalists - Softcover

Plantinga, Cornelius

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802870775 ISBN 13: 9780802870773

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2013

Synopsis

Encourages preachers to purposefully pursue a wide program of good reading In Reading for Preaching Cornelius Plantinga makes a striking claim: preachers who read widely will most likely become better preachers. Plantinga -- himself a master preacher -- shows how a wide reading program can benefit preachers. First, he says, good reading generates delight, and the preacher who enters the world of delight goes with God. Good reading can also help tune the preacher's ear for language -- his or her primary tool. General reading can enlarge the preacher's sympathies for people and situations that she or he had previously known nothing about. And, above all, the preacher who reads widely has the chance to become wise. This beautifully written book will benefit not just preachers but anyone interested in the wisdom to be derived from reading. Works that Plantinga interacts with in the book include The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini Enrique's Journey, by Sonia Nazario Silence, by Shusaku Endo "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" by Leo Tolstoy "Narcissus Leaves the Pool" by Joseph Epstein Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo . . . and many more!

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About the Author

Cornelius Plantinga Jr is President Emeritus of Calvin Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan. His previous books include Beyond Doubt, Not the Way It's Supposed to Be, and Engaging God's World, and his many articles and essays have appeared in such periodicals as Books & Culture, Christianity Today, and The Christian Century.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802870775
• ISBN 13: 9780802870773
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 147