What's the Shape of Narrative Preaching? is a compilation of contemporary homiletical essays honoring Eugene Lowry. Contributors include Ron Allen, Fred Craddock, David Buttrick, Tom Long, Frank Thomas and others. Readers will discover numerous insights, examining various forms of narrative preaching, although most voices are from mainline churches. For seminary students as much as seasoned ministers, this volume studies the storyline style of the Bible and takes present readers through the past and into the future of the potential impact narrative preaching could have on congregations.