Allen provides a comprehensive introduction to the art of preaching, covering both hermeneutic concerns and homiletical structure.
Preface
ix
(2)
Introduction
xi
SECTION ONE: Thoughts and Issues for Beginning Preachers
1
(18)
1. Anxieties of Beginning Preachers
3
(6)
2. Why Preaching Is Important
9
(10)
SECTION TWO: Three Contexts for Preaching Today
19
(44)
3. The Church as a Context for Preaching
21
(23)
4. The Larger World as a Context for Preaching
44
(10)
5. The Life of the Preacher as a Context for Preaching
54
(9)
SECTION THREE: Preaching as Theological Interpretation
63
(34)
6. Preaching as Theological Interpretation through Conversation
65
(17)
7. Theological Criteria and Interpretative Relationships in the Preaching Conversation
82
(15)
SECTION FOUR: Establishing and Developing a Direction for the Sermon
97
(54)
8. Starting Points for Sermon Preparation
99
(20)
9. Developing the Direction of the Sermon
119
(32)
SECTION FIVE: Putting the Sermon Together
151
(70)
10. Engaging the Congregation in the Sermon
153
(24)
11. A Smorgasbord of Patterns of Movement for the Sermon
177
(29)
12. Stories, Images, and Experience in Preaching
206
(15)
SECTION SIX: From the Study to the Pulpit and Back
221
(36)
13. Embodying the Sermon
223
(15)
14. Learning from the Congregation, Colleagues, and Continuing Education
238
(6)
15. Miscellania
244
(13)
SECTION SEVEN: Case Studies of Sample Sermons
257
(40)
16. An Expository-Deductive Sermon
259
(9)
Ronald J. Allen
17. An Expository-Inductive Sermon
268
(11)
Mary Donovan Turner
18. A Topical-Deductive Sermon
279
(7)
Rene Rodgers Jensen
19. A Topical-Inductive Sermon
286
(11)
Reginald C. Holmes
Endnotes
297
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