Book Reviews

Ronald E. Sleeth, God's Word and Our Words: Basic Homiletics (Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1986), 136 pp., $7.95, pb.The late Ronald E. Sleeth spent his lifetime preaching and teaching preachers. A long and distin...

Summer affords, at least in hope and in theory, a time for the relaxed reading of materials which would otherwise remain unread. Most preachers collect a stack of volumes during the year reserved for that mythi...

Edward F. Marquart, Quest For Better Preaching: Resources for Renewal in the Pulpit (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1985), 239pp., $10.95 pb.Most major books on preaching are directed to several classe...

Pheme Perkins. Resurrection: New Testament Witness and Contemporary Reflection. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1984. $19.95 (hb).Herman Hendrickx. The Resurrection Narratives: Studies in the Synoptic Gospe...

Craddock, Fred B. Preaching (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1985), 224pp, $16.95.Fred Craddock, Professor of Preaching and New Testament at Candler School of Theology and Graduate Division of Religion, Emory Un...

Stott, John R. W. Between Two Worlds: The Art of Preaching in the Twentieth Century (Grand Rapids: Eerdmanns, 1982), 351 pp., $13.95."Preaching is indispensable to Christianity." With this commanding sentence J...

Killinger, John. Fundamentals of Preaching (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985), 213 pp., $9.95.With this book John Killinger has produced one of those few volumes which exceeds the promises of its back cover. ...