A New Hearing: Living Options in Homiletic Method

Preaching is in crisis. Why? Because the traditional, conceptual approach no longer works, says Richard L. Eslinger. It fails to capture the interest of listeners and is not sufficiently Scripture-based. The time has come to listen to new voices, new methods. And that is what A New Hearing provides. Eslinger offers as "living options" the work of five preeminent—though quite different—preachers who represent the "cutting edge" of preaching in the 1980s: Charles Rice and the storytelling met...