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Wondrous Depth

Preaching the Old Testament

  • Paperback
  • 300 pages
  • Publisher: Westminster
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1 cm

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For preachers seeking to deepen their message.

Wondrous Depth connects preaching and interpretation.

You’ll learn to inspire others with powerful sermons.

Discover how Ellen F. Davis connects biblical interpretation and preaching in "Wondrous Depth," offering insights from historical preachers to inspire your own journey in faith.

The recent separation in the church of biblical interpretation and preaching, argues Duke Divinity professor Ellen Davis, has obscured the fact that the two are interconnected. This separation ignores the fact that the purpose of interpretation is to edify the church, and that, historically, preaching has been the platform for the majority of Christian biblical interpretation. In her book, based on the 2003 Beecher Lectures, Davis begins with the assertion that the Old Testament is an urgent and speaking presence for preaching, not a difficult text separated from us by a vast theological, moral, and historical chasm. By exploring preachers such as, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, John Donne, and Lancelot Andrewes, Davis makes the point that preaching is an art. In these chapters, she shows these artists at work and lets us see how they deal with problems and puzzles that the text presents, and try to learn from them basic principles of biblical interpretation and communication. Her interest throughout is practical: what can ordinary preachers like ourselves learn from these masters of the art?;Included are some of her own sermons, not as models but as contemporary examples of how the traditional sensibility she discussed in her book has expressed itself in a few specific settings, in response to particular historical circumstances, particular liturgical occasions, and particular texts.
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  • Title

    Wondrous Depth

  • Author

    Ellen F. Davis

  • Book Format

    paperback

  • Publisher

    Westminster

  • Published

    September 2005

  • Weight

    255g

  • Page Count

    300

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780664228590

  • ISBN-10

    0664228593

  • Eden Code

    108365

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