Reading for preaching : the preacher in conversation with storytellers, biographers, poets, and journalists /

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Author / Creator:Plantinga, Cornelius, 1946-
Imprint:Grand Rapids, Michigan ; Cambridge, U.K. : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2013.
Description:xiv, 133 pages ; 22 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13228015
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ISBN:9780802870773
0802870775
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary:In Reading for Preaching Cornelius Plantinga makes a striking claim: preachers who read widely will most likely become better preachers. Plantinga -- himself a master preacher -- shows how a wide reading program can benefit preachers. First, he says, good reading generates delight, and the preacher who enters the world of delight goes with God. Good reading can also help tune the preacher's ear for language -- his or her primary tool. General reading can enlarge the preacher's sympathies for people and situations that she or he had previously known nothing about. And, above all, the preacher who reads widely has the chance to become wise.