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The Homiletical Plot, Expanded Edition: The Sermon as Narrative Art Form is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

moral exhortation—and one with such a low common denominator that it could have been delivered at the local Kiwanis club by anyone from any religious/ethical perspective. Instead of description or illustration, what is needed in this second stage of sermon presentation is depth of analysis. By continuing with the illustration of a potential sermon on apathy, the nature of analysis can be explicated and the nature of the gospel implicated. I personally have never been confronted with the situation
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