Reading for Preaching: The Preacher in Conversation with Storytellers, Biographers, Poets, and Journalists

In Reading for Preaching Cornelius Plantinga makes a striking claim: preachers who read widely will most likely...
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Reading for Preaching: The Preacher in Conversation with Storytellers, Biographers, Poets, and Journalists by Plantinga, Cornelius

Reading for Preaching: The Preacher in Conversation with Storytellers, Biographers, Poets, and Journalists

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Reading for Preaching: The Preacher in Conversation with Storytellers, Biographers, Poets, and Journalists

BD$30.07
Author: Cornelius Plantinga
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

This beautifully written book will benefit not just preachers but anyone interested in the wisdom to be derived from reading.

Works that Plantinga interacts with in the book include
  • The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
  • Enrique's Journey, by Sonia Nazario
  • Silence, by Shusaku Endo
  • "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" by Leo Tolstoy
  • "Narcissus Leaves the Pool" by Joseph Epstein
  • Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo
. . . and many more!



Author: Cornelius Plantinga
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: 11/30/2013
Pages: 147
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.46h x 5.60w x 0.41d
ISBN: 9780802870773


Award: Book of the Year - Winner
Award: Christianity Today Book Award - Winner


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/26/2013
Christianity Today 10/01/2013 pg. 72
CBA Retailers 11/01/2013 pg. 44
Christianity Today 01/01/2014 pg. 64
Christian Century 02/19/2014 pg. 41

About the Author
Plantinga, Cornelius: - Cornelius Plantinga is president emeritus of Calvin Theological Seminary and senior research fellow at the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship. His previous books include Beyond Doubt, Not the Way It's Supposed to Be, and Engaging God's World, and his many articles and essays have appeared in such periodicals as Books & Culture, Christianity Today, and The Christian Century.

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