The Four Voices of Preaching
Communicating Faith in a Connected World
Published on 8. October 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
248 pages
978-1-959685-17-3 (ISBN)
Description
Whether seated in a pew or listening to something online about faith, most of the faith-talk people hear is shaped by a speaker's faith sensibility. And those faith sensibilities can generally be distinguished as four distinctly different "voices" of preaching. Understanding what these voices are and how they differ is what this book is about. In this updated and expanded volume, the author canvases the tradition of preaching by drawing together religious, social, and cultural concerns that have given birth to each new North American way of communicating about faith in God. This is a book about why communicating the Gospel matters in whatever form it takes.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-959685-17-3 (9781959685173)
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Robert Stephen Reid (PhD, University of Washington) is emeritus professor of Communication, University of Dubuque, Iowa. He directed the MA in Organizational Communication and Leadership 2001-2017 and served as Communication Department Head 2000-2014. He is author of The Four Voices of Preaching (Brazos Press, 2006) Preaching Mark (Chalice, 1999), co-author of, The Six Deadly Sins of Preaching: Becoming Responsible for the Faith We Proclaim (Abingdon, 2012) and Connecting with the Congregation: Rhetoric and the Art of Preaching (Abingdon, 1999). His scholarly essays include, "Preaching in the Baptist Theological Family," in Preaching the Manifold Grace of God (Cascade, 2022), "The Leave-Taking Sermon: Mark Driscoll and the Challenge of Authenticity," in Rhetoric of the Protestant Sermon in America (Lexington, 2020), "A Rhetoric of Christian Discourse," (Journal of Communication and Religion, 2008) and "Solzhenitsyn's Christian Civilization Rhetoric," in And the Word Became Flesh (Pickwick, 2009). He is co-author of a textbook, Connecting with Your Audience: Making Public Speaking Matter, 2nd ed. (Kendall-Hunt, 2016) that is distinguished by its use of Supreme Court opinions for student values-in-dispute speeches, current legislative proposals for policy-in-dispute speeches, and personal experience for the basic informative speech design. He lives near Seattle, Washington, with his spouse, the Rev. Dr. Barbara Reid.