Book Reviews

Quentin J. Schultze, Televangelism and American Culture: The Business of Popular Religion (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1991), 265 pp., cloth, $16.99.Television is the central metaphor of American culture at... Continue Reading...

Since Gutenberg first applied moveable type to ink and paper, preachers have been among the most avid bibliophiles. For most preachers, the only limits to the number of books we buy are budget and available spa... Continue Reading...

Raymond Bailey, Jesus The Preacher (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1990), 128 pp., cloth.Preaching, as an art and craft, is better observed than defined. Though all good preachers give careful and intentional atten... Continue Reading...

James Patterson and Peter Kim, The Day America Told the Truth: What People Really Believe About Everything That Really Matters (New York: Prentice Hall, 1991), 270 pp., $19.95, cloth.Americans have insatiable a... Continue Reading...

Laurence A. Wagley, Preaching with the Small Congregation (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1989), 140 pp., paper.Does the size of the congregation shape the preaching event? Laurence Wagley thinks that it does, and ... Continue Reading...

John Piper, The Supremacy of God in Preaching (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1990), 110 pp.The current renaissance of interest in preaching -- a trend which appears to continue into the 1990's -- has produced... Continue Reading...

In a year when a variety of stimulating and thoughtful works on preaching hit the shelves, Thomas G. Long's latest work, The Witness of Preaching (Westminster/John Knox Press), rises to the top as the outstandi... Continue Reading...

Religious and church-related publishers release literally hundreds of new titles each year intended for professional ministers. This feast of information can quickly become an imposing threat to the preacher, a... Continue Reading...

Richard Allen Bodey, Inside the Sermon: Thirteen Preachers Discuss Their Methods of Preparing Messages (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1990), 214 pp., paper.Though preaching is a public activity, sermon prepar... Continue Reading...

Walter Brueggemann, Finally comes the Poet: Daring Speech for Proclamation (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Press, 1989), 162 pp., $8.95, paper.James Forbes, The Holy Spirit and Preaching (Nashville: Abingdon Pr... Continue Reading...