For For preachers and those training to preach; brief and pointed, not a homiletics textbook.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
3 of 5worth your time
For the researcher
2 of 5useful
Difficulty
2 of 5moderate
A short lecture to preachers on why preaching has lost standing and what preaching Christ requires today.
How it proceeds
Philosophic2 of 5
Scriptural3 of 5
Experiential2 of 5
Sociological2 of 5
Historical1 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
The eighteenth Joseph Smith Memorial Lecture, published as a pamphlet by Overdale College, Birmingham, in 1979, while Newbigin was teaching at the Selly Oak Colleges. Addressed to preachers, it starts from the low prestige of preaching in modern society and takes up the reasons, beginning with the devaluation of words by the flood of mass communication, before turning to what preaching Christ involves today.
