A Vision for Preaching: Understanding the Heart of Pastoral Ministry

by Abraham Kuruvilla

Publisher:

Baker Academic

, 2015

Overview

Teacher of preachers Abraham Kuruvilla develops an integrated biblical and theological vision for preaching that addresses the essentials of this most important activity in the church. Kuruvilla draws on influential voices from church history, teases out scriptural connections, and sifts through biblical theology to reclaim what has been lost through the centuries. Beyond a rearticulation of past wisdom, Kuruvilla offers fresh insights, showing preachers what they can aim for as an ideal in their preaching. He enables preachers to have a better conception of what it means to preach, a fuller understanding of the divinely granted privilege of preaching, and a greater excitement for the preaching ministry. Concluding biblical reflections reinforce the teaching of each chapter.

Key Features

• Develops an integrated biblical and theological vision for preaching.
• Addresses the essentials of this most important activity in the church.
• Enables preachers to have a better conception of what it means to preach.

Praise for Print Edition

Building on earlier work, Kuruvilla offers a systematic and readable vision for the preparation of sermons and especially the preparation of preachers as they wrestle with the biblical text. Rightly arguing that the key to authoritative preaching is grasping the originally intended theological meanings of biblical texts, the author challenges us to take the Scriptures seriously and to read the Bible forward rather than backward.

--Daniel Block, Gunther H. Knoedler Professor of Old Testament, Wheaton College; author of For the Glory of God

Kuruvilla is one of the best homiletical thinkers today; he reads widely and writes clearly. In this book he argues that preachers must discern a biblical author’s theological intent in order to make valid and specific applications that will help conform listeners to Christ and bring glory to God. Kuruvilla has given us a vision for preaching that is insightful, comprehensive, and compelling.

--Donald R. Sunukjian, professor of preaching, Talbot School of Theology

In A Vision for Preaching, homiletics scholar Abraham Kuruvilla offers a compelling vision of what preaching is and can be, unpacking that vision through a series of chapters that explore what it means to be a biblical preacher. As he analyzes preaching through various lenses, he offers those who proclaim God’s Word a useful and encouraging vision through which to interpret their own calling and task.

--Michael Duduit, executive editor,Preaching magazine; dean, College of Christian Studies and Clamp Divinity School, Anderson University

Product Details

• Title: A Vision for Preaching: Understanding the Heart of Pastoral Ministry
• Author: Abraham Kuruvilla
• Publisher: Baker Academic
• Print Publication Date: 2015
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Pages: 214
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subject: Preaching
• ISBNs: 9781441228147, 1441228144, 9780801096747, 080109674X
• Resource ID: LLS:9781441228147
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-06T20:58:56Z

About Abraham Kuruvilla

Abraham Kuruvilla is Research Professor of Pastoral Ministries at Dallas Theological Seminary, and a dermatologist in private practice. He is the author of Text to Praxis: Hermeneutics and Homiletics in Dialogue (2009), Privilege the Text! A Theological Hermeneutic for Preaching (2013), and A Vision for Preaching: Understanding the Heart of Pastoral Ministry (2015), in addition to theological commentaries for preachers on Mark (2012), Genesis (2014), and Ephesians (2015). He blogs regularly at www.homiletix.com.