The Trouble with "Truth through Personality"

The Trouble with
Author: Charles W. Fuller
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2010-04-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 149827255X

In an era when the cult of personality has overtaken the task of preaching, Charles W. Fuller offers an engaging query into the necessary boundaries between the person of the preacher and the message preached. By thoroughly evaluating Phillips Brooks's classic "truth through personality" definition of preaching, Fuller brings to light a substantial error that remains in contemporary homiletics: namely, the tenuous correlation between Christ's incarnation and Christian preaching. Ultimately, Fuller asserts a sound evangelical framework for preaching on revelational, ontological, rhetorical, and teleological grounds. Preachers who desire to construct pulpit practice upon a robust evangelical foundation will benefit from Fuller's contribution.

The Trouble with "Truth through Personality"

The Trouble with
Author: Charles W. Fuller
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2010-04-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1608994031

In an era when the cult of personality has overtaken the task of preaching, Charles W. Fuller offers an engaging query into the necessary boundaries between the person of the preacher and the message preached. By thoroughly evaluating Phillips Brooks's classic "truth through personality" de?nition of preaching, Fuller brings to light a substantial error that remains in contemporary homiletics: namely, the tenuous correlation between Christ's incarnation and Christian preaching. Ultimately, Fuller asserts a sound evangelical framework for preaching on revelational, ontological, rhetorical, and teleological grounds. Preachers who desire to construct pulpit practice upon a robust evangelical foundation will bene?t from Fuller's contribution.

He is Not Silent

He is Not Silent
Author: R. Albert Mohler, Jr.
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2008-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1575674025

"Contemporary preaching suffers from a loss of confidence in the power of the Word, from an infatuation with technology, from an embarrassment before the biblical text, from an evacuation of biblical content, from a focus on felt needs, from an absence of gospel." Preaching, the practice of publicly expositing the Bible, has fallen on hard times. How did this happen? After all, as John A. Broadus famously remarked, “Preaching is characteristic of Christianity." In this powerful book, He Is Not Silent: Preaching in a Postmodern World, R. Albert Mohler Jr. shows us how. In a style both commanding and encouraging, Mohler lays the groundwork for preaching, fans the flame on the glory of preaching, and calls out with an urgent need for preaching. This message is desperately needed yet not often heard. Whether you're concerned or enthused by the state of the church today, join Mohler as he examines preaching and why the church can't survive without it.

Brahmin Prophet

Brahmin Prophet
Author: Gillis J. Harp
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780847699612

The Reverend Phillips Brooks was undeniably one of the most popular preachers of Gilded Age America and the author of the beloved Christmas carol, 'O Little Town of Bethlehem.' However, very few critical studies of his life and work exist. In this insightful book, Gillis J. Harp places Brooks's religious thought in its proper historical, cultural, and ecclesiastical contexts while clarifying the sources of Brooks's inspiration. The result is a fuller, richer portrait of this luminous figure and of this transitional era in American protestantism.

On the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons

On the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons
Author: John A. Broadus
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1979-09-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 006061112X

Fully revised edition of the classic guide to the art of homiletics incorporates recent helpful developments in the field.