Kindling Desire for God: Preaching as Spiritual Direction

The discipline of preaching has undergone several evolutionary momentsin the past century, focusing on its purpose as being variouslypersuasion, explanation, and, most recently, communication. Ofparticular and lingering influence has been Harry Emerson Fosdick's"preaching as counseling" model, which urged therapeutic,individualistic methods upon the pastor. In the search for a model ofpreaching that is apt for our postmodern moment, Kay Northcuttrespectfully eschews these earlier models and...