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The Drama of Preaching: Participating with God in the History of Redemption
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Preaching is dramatic. Through it, we hear the voice of the living God as he speaks to us both through the reading and the preaching of the word of God. But where do the hearers of sermons fit into the drama? This book suggests ways in which the drama metaphor may help to address age old questions about the centrality of the gospel and the place of the hearer in preaching. As God in Christ is the central character in the biblical drama of redemption, he also calls hearers to understand their role in creatively, yet faithfully living according to the biblical script. Thus, no sermon is complete until God's redemptive work is powerfully proclaimed, and his people are instructed in how they too are participating in the Missio Dei. In this work, Hebrews 11 is employed as a means of showing how God not only reveals his redemptive work to his people, but also through them. As postmodernism sets the stage of contemporary preaching, The Drama of Preaching interacts with some of the particular challenges preachers face in engaging postmodern listeners, that they might not only be hearers, but doers of the preached word.
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Eric B. Watkins
Eric Watkins is the pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church in St. Augustine, Florida, and an adjunct in homiletics at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary in Jacksonville, Florida. He has a PhD from the Theological University in Kampen, the Netherlands. His particular interests are preaching and church planting in a postmodern context. He and his wife, Heather, have three children. His pastimes are surfing, beach volleyball, and playing guitar.
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