Anglican Communion - General & Miscellaneous, Sermons, Anglican Communion - Church of England, Preaching, Sermons - Christianity
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Overview
Professor Davis studies five important biblical preachers within the Anglican tradition to illustrate the unique kind of disciplined imagination and poetic discourse that are hallmarks of this tradition. Following an introduction to the cultural changes and contexts within which these five preachers lived and worked, Davis provides selected and unabridged sermon texts, lightly annotated. She concludes the book by drawing the connection between contemporary homiletics and biblical studies, thereby offering a solution to the so-called crisis in much of today's preaching, that is, its impoverished understanding of the meaning and uses of scripture.Davis has chosen five biblical preachers within the Anglican tradition and addresses the so-called crisis in contemporary preaching--its impoverished understanding of the meaning and uses of scripture. This will be of special interest to seminarians and clergy in the Anglican tradition.
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Davis (Yale Divinity School) studies five biblical preachers within the Anglican tradition to illustrate the disciplined imagination and poetic discourse that are hallmarks of the tradition. She provides selected texts of sermons (delivered from the 16th century to the 19th), draws the connection between contemporary homiletics and biblical studies, and offers a solution to what she views as preaching's impoverished understanding today of the meaning and uses of Scripture. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
January 31, 1995
Publisher
Continuum International Publishing Group - Trinity
Pages
304
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781563381218