Preaching and the Personal - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1610978269 ISBN 13: 9781610978262

Publisher: Pickwick Publications, 2013

Synopsis

Preaching is a personal event: a minister or speaker prepares his or her sermon and presents it to the congregation. Preaching, however, also includes the Bible as a central source; this source comes from and provides a basis for the believing community. The preaching event is also personal for the members of the congregation, who are not simply recipients of the preacher's words based on a biblical text. The congregation is involved personally in that each individual interprets the words and the text. What is said in the text, in the sermon, and the listener's response represent parts of each one's testimony. Testimony runs throughout preaching, the Bible, and the congregation. It is in this interchange of preacher, text, and listener that not just one testimony develops but many testimonies are present.

About this title

About the Author

J. Dwayne Howell is Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew in the School of Theology at Campbellsville University in Campbellsville, Kentucky, and pastor of the Rolling Fork Baptist Church in Gleanings, Kentucky. He serves as the chair of the Homiletics and Biblical Studies Section of the Society of Biblical Literature.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1610978269
• ISBN 13: 9781610978262
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 170
• Editor: Howell J. Dwayne