I once said to a friend, “I’m reading the Psalms.” He replied, “I am living the Psalms.” My friend was a young preacher whose wife was divorcing him. He was going through deep waters and was finding comfort in the Psalms. David the main contributor to the Psalms wrote many of the Psalms out of great affliction, such as, when he was fleeing as a fugitive from jealous King Saul or dealing with the rebellion of his son Absalom.
Read moreNEW Review of Bryan Chapell's "Redemptive-Historical View" of Preaching
This post is a review of “Redemptive-Historic View” by Bryan Chapell in Scott M. Gibson’s and Matthew D. Kim’s Homiletics and Hermeneutics: Four Views on Preaching Today.
I agree with Byran Chapell when he warns that the redemptive-historical view of forcing Christ into every text has “been abused, in ways that are now obvious to us, by ancient allegorism that sought to make Jesus ‘magically’ appear in every Bible passage through exegetical acrobatics that stretched logic, imagination, and credulity.”[1] This is a candid admission.
Read moreNEW Review of Kenneth Langley's "Theocentric View" of Preaching
Kenneth Langley’s Theocentric View of Preaching is found in Scott M. Gibson’s and Matthew D. Kim’s Homiletics and Hermeneutics: Four Views on Preaching Today. I agree with Bryan Chapell, Abraham Kuruvilla, and Paul Scott Wilson, who note that Langley makes many good points in his view. For example, Bryan Chapell states “The sound principles of biblical interpretation in Ken Langley’s work make it rich reading. For example, he begins with a statement that I would hope all believers would endorse: ‘Preaching should be God centered because God is God centered and wants us to be God centered in everything we do’ (81). That healthy summary of 1 Corinthians 10:31 should elicit a loud ‘Amen.’”[1]
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