Sacred Rhetoric: Preaching as a Theological and Pastoral Practice of the Church - Softcover

Pasquarello III, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1620323346 ISBN 13: 9781620323342

Publisher: Wipf and Stock, 2012

Synopsis

Modern approaches to preaching today are largely fixated on "how-to's"-how to make preaching more relevant, more interesting, more entertaining. Michael Pasquarello suggests that this fixation may stem from a preaching imagination more beholden to technical, scientific reason than theological wisdom. Rather than devising new techniques or strategies for effective speaking, Pasquarello offers something more salutary-portraits of ten exemplary preachers from the Christian tradition. Included in Pasquarello's gallery are Augustine of Hippo, Gregory the Great, Benedict, Bernard of Clairvaux, Bonaventure, Thomas Aquinas, Erasmus, Hugh Latimer, Martin Luther, and John Calvin. These excellent preachers conceived of Christian speech as a unique theological practice learned through prayerful attention to the Bible and aimed at communion with God. Sacred Rhetoric invites readers to join an extended conversation with the past in order to become faithful preachers of the gospel in a post-Christian society. Preachers, seminarians, and students of Christian history will find much to learn from Pasquarello's fresh perspective and passion for the past.

About this title

About the Author

Michael Pasquarello III (PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) is Granger E. and Anna A. Fisher Professor of Preaching at Asbury Theological Seminary. He is the author of Christian Preaching: A Trinitarian Theology of Proclamation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1620323346
• ISBN 13: 9781620323342
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152