
Empty Admiration
Robert Lewis Dabney's Expository Homiletic
Russell St John(Author)
Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published on 9. October 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-7252-6439-7 (ISBN)
Description
""Do as I say, not as I do."" It is not only parents who fail to model instructions for their children, but also teachers of preaching.
Robert Lewis Dabney was a nineteenth-century Presbyterian theologian who taught theology and preaching at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia prior to and after the United States Civil War. He is remembered for his powers as a systematic theologian, his defense of southern Christianity, and his life-long racism. A formidable theologian and respected teacher of preachers, Dabney's Sacred Rhetoric (1870) poised him to influence a generation of young preachers to devote themselves to verse-by-verse expository preaching through books of the Bible. Yet Dabney failed, instead equipping his students to preach--and modeling for them--topical sermons preached on mere fragments of text, often without context. Empty Admiration traces Dabney's thought and action from his preaching theory to his classroom instruction to his personal practice, revealing a man at odds with himself, whose students--not unlike children--preached as Dabney preached, not as Dabney said.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Eugene
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
335 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7252-6439-7 (9781725264397)
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Russell St. John is Lead Pastor of Twin Oaks Presbyterian Church (PCA) and Visiting Instructor of Homiletics at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis.