Practicing the Preaching Life
| Author | David B. Ward |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Abingdon Press |
| Publication Date | 3/2019 |
| Binding | Book - Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781501854941 |
| Retail Price | $31.99 |
| Discount Price | $21.49 (33% discount) |
Practicing the Preaching Life unites Christian practices, contextual virtues, and the best of homiletical pedagogy to pave the way to a beautiful preaching life. Preaching is best learned as a formative Christian practice embedded within a web of other Christian practices that form a way of life from which great sermons emerge. Therefore, preaching requires not only a way of speaking well, but also a way of living well. This embedded nature of preaching requires the enrollment of Christian practices in the formation of the preacher and the pursuit of contextual virtues for preaching that avoid cultural relativism on the one hand and cultural imperialism on the other. These requirements lead to a new vision for the preaching classroom, the rhythms of the preaching life, and the definition of what it means to be a good preacher.