It is knowing how to read texts in such a way that they will be allowed to function according to their original power and intent. The real work of imagination is not inserting clever stories or esthetically-pleasing images into the argument of the sermon. Piper’s aim is to plead for the supremacy of God in preaching (p. For Lischer, the act of preaching is an exercise of the preacher's imagination. In this hardcover edition, long-time author and teacher John Piper draws from the preaching ministry of Jonathan Edwards to encourage pastors and leaders to. As he elaborates on this theme, he explores the centrality of the Resurrection in both theology and preaching, the relation of the law and the gospel, and how preaching calls upon theology to recover its oral-aural foundation. Lischer points to the historically negative results of preaching's exclusion from theology, and then shows the benefits derived from the proper interaction of the two disciplines. It is, he writes,"a theological preface whose aim is to show how theology informs preaching and how preaching, as a kerygmatic, oral, practical activity, informs theology and brings it to its final form of expression." Dr. Richard Lischer's book is a stirring affirmation of preaching's importance as a major enterprise in its own right. Who will cry out above every crisis, Your God reigns John Piper pleads for preachers to make the supremacy of God the bracing air of their sermons.
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