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Preaching

by: Craddock, Fred B.

Preaching

by: Craddock, Fred B.

ISBN 13:
9780687659944
ISBN 10:
0687659949
Edition: 25th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 05/01/2010
Publisher: Ingram Book Co

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Summary

This groundbreaking volume has guided generations of students and pastors through the daunting challenge of learning to preach. Fred Craddock weaves history, theology, and hermeneutics into a practical, comprehensive, and contemporary text on how to prepare and deliver the sermon.

Foreword to the 25th Anniversary Edition	p. 6
Preface	p. 10
Preaching: An Overview
Introduction	p. 13
Purpose and Format	p. 13
Basic Assumptions About Learning to Preach	p. 16
Fundamental Convictions About Preaching	p. 22
The Sermon in Context	p. 31
The Historical Context	p. 33
The Pastoral Context	p. 37
The Liturgical Context	p. 41
The Theological Context	p. 47
A Theology of Preaching	p. 51
Proceeding from Silence	p. 52
Heard in a Whisper	p. 55
Shouted from the Housetop	p. 60
Preaching: Having Something to Say
The Life of Study	p. 69
The Importance of the Life of Study	p. 69
Hindrances to the Life of Study	p. 71
Suggestions for a Life of Study	p. 75
Interpretation: The Listeners	p. 84
The Listeners as Audience	p. 86
The Listeners as Congregation	p. 90
Interpretation: The Text	p. 99
Selection of the Text	p. 101
First Reading of the Text	p. 105
Establishing the Text	p. 107
Detemining the Parameters of the Text	p. 110
Setting the Text in Its Several Contexts	p. 112
Being Aware of One's Point of Contact with the Text	p. 117
Putting the Text in One's Own Words	p. 121
Interpretation: Between Text and Listener	p. 125
The Task of the Preacher as Interpreter of Scripture	p. 127
Methods Available to the Preacher as Interpreter	p. 136
Preaching: Shaping the Message into a Sermon
Qualities to Be Sought in the Sermon	p. 153
Unity	p. 155
Memory	p. 157
Recognition	p. 159
Identification	p. 162
Anticipation	p. 165
Intimacy	p. 168
The Formation of the Sermon	p. 170
The Many Functions of Form	p. 170
The Selection of a Form	p. 176
Creating a Form	p. 182
Putting the Form on Paper	p. 189
Enriching the Form	p. 194
The Language of Preaching	p. 196
Description	p. 200
Illustration	p. 203
Delivering the Sermon	p. 210
Pre-delivery Considerations	p. 211
The Delivery Itself	p. 214
Suggested Resources for the Preacher	p. 223
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