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Preaching Christ from Ecclesiastes: Foundations for Expository Sermons is unavailable, but you can change that!

As Sidney Greidanus points out, the biblical book of Ecclesiastes is especially relevant for our contemporary culture because it confronts such secular enticements as materialism, hedonism, cut-throat competition, and self-sufficiency. But how can preachers best convey the ancient Teacher’s message to congregations today? A respected expert in both hermeneutics and homiletics, Greidanus does...

have to gain some clarity on the difficulties with which commentators have struggled for more than two thousand years.9 We shall first explore difficulties in interpreting Ecclesiastes and next difficulties in preaching this book. We shall discuss in turn five major issues in interpreting Ecclesiastes: the nature of wisdom literature, the historical setting of Ecclesiastes, its genre and forms, its structure, and its overall message.
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