Foreword by Don Wardlaw This exceptional book by Charles Cosgrove and Dow Edgerton will be a rich resource for pastors wanting to reach their congregations in a fresh way. Rather than discussing preaching in general or even a specific approach to preaching, it focuses on a new way of engaging the biblical text for preaching. In Other Words combines Cosgrove and Edgerton's critical acumen, creative imagination, and pastoral discernment to present contemporizing restatements of Scripture, speaking timeless truths in modern speech. In describing their "incarnational translation," the authors invite readers to imagine what the text might have looked like if produced in the preacher's own culture, time, and place. Drawing on translation theory, genre studies, and recent hermeneutical theory, they offer both a comprehensive theory of incarnational translation and a set of specific guidelines and examples for carrying it out.

In Other Words: Incarnational Translation for Preaching

Religion & Spirituality

Edgerton, W. Dow

Cosgrove, Charles H.

Christian Books & Bibles

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

Speak to Me that I May Speak is for any preacher who has ever hesitated and asked that very question. It grows from the conviction that the work of interpretation, reflection, and preparing to preach is at the core of the preacher's spiritual life and deserves our ever deeper attention. This daily work, so well known and accustomed, is forge in which the preacher's own life and faith are transformed. The life of interpretation/preaching is explored as a process of spiritual discipline and transformation through encounter with mystery: in prayer, in language, in the face of the Other, in the ordinary events of a day, in the profusion of the scriptures, and the passion of faith and witness.

Speak to Me That I May Speak: A Spirituality of Preaching

Pilgrim Pr

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