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Highlights
- Buttrick presents a complete homiletic that focuses on how sermons form in consciousness and how the language of preaching functions in the communal consciousness of a congregation.
- Preaching Book of the Year 1988 1st Winner
- Author(s): David Buttrick
- 512 Pages
- Religion + Beliefs, Christian Ministry
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Book Synopsis
Buttrick presents a complete homiletic that focuses on how sermons form in consciousness and how the language of preaching functions in the communal consciousness of a congregation. His "phenomenological" approach marks a sharp departure from older homiletics.
From the Back Cover
Homiletics is an odd discipline. You cannot talk of sermon design without some glimmer of what sermons are made of, and you cannot comprehend the internal parts of a sermon without a grasp of sermon design--a 'Homiletic Circle' of sorts.Review Quotes
"Everything about this book suggests that it is a most serious, most ambitious, most scholarly approach. Even the bibliographies make good reading. It's too good a book to limit only to people who preach." --Martin E. Marty, Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of Modern Christianity at The University of Chicago
"Here is the major book on the theory and construction of sermons for the 20th century. Sweeping claim! This is the most thorough discussion of our time." --Donald K. McKim, former Academic Dean and Professor of Theology at Memphis Theological Seminary