Theology for Preaching - Authority, Truth, and Knowledge of God in a Postmodern Ethos

The heart of the postmodern mind-set is an awareness of the relativity of all human thought and action. In Theology for Preaching, three authors collaborate about the implications for proclamation when the culture behaves as if all human thought and practices are relative. Tips for sermon composition and theme are proposed. Sample sermons are supplied to demonstrate awareness of the cultural shifts that make preaching a worthwhile challenge in a postmodern ethos.

About the author

The editor of this work, 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).

Product details

• Authors: Ronald J. Allen, Barbara S. Blaisdell, Scott Black Johnston
• Publisher: Abingdon Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.04.1997
• EAN: 9780687017171
• ISBN: 978-0-687-01717-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 344 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity