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Preaching the Manifold Grace of God is a two-volume work describing theologies of preaching from the historical and contemporary periods. Volume 1 focuses on historical theological families: Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, Anabaptist, Anglican/Episcopal, Wesleyan, Baptist, African American, Stone-Campbell, Friends, and Pentecostal. Volume 2 focuses on families that are evangelical, liberal, neo-orthodox, postliberal, existential, radical orthodox, deconstructionist, Black liberation, womanist, Latinx liberation, Mujerista, Asian American, Asian American feminist, LGBTQAI, Indigenous, postcolonial, and process. In each case, the author describes the circumstances in which the theological family emerged and describes the purposes and characteristics of preaching from that perspective.
About the author
Ronald J. Allen was Professor of Preaching, and Gospels and Letters at Christian Theological Seminary for thirty-seven years. He is the author or editor of forty books, including
The Sermon without End, coauthored with O. Wesley Allen Jr. (2015). He is also a coeditor of the three-volume
Preaching God's Transforming Justice (2012)
and the editor of the widely used sermon collection
Patterns of Preaching (1998).