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Now in reissue with a new foreword by Fred B. Craddock and afterword by the author, Eugene L. Lowry, The Homiletical Plot, Expanded Edition follows in the same solid tradition of its predecessor. Upon its release, The Homiletical Plot quickly became a pivotal work on the art of preaching. Instead of comments on a biblical passage, Lowry suggested that the sermon follow a narrative form that moves...

As a general rule, when the context of a sermon is the contemporary human situation, whether at the personal or social level, it is likely that the opening ambiguity will be the central or fundamental discrepancy. In the case of expository or doctrinal preaching, it is more likely that the opening ambiguity will serve to engage the congregation in a preliminary bind which in turn opens into the central problem. In any case, the purpose of the opening stage of the presented sermon is to trigger ambiguity
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