Kindling Desire for God: Preaching as Spiritual Direction

by Kay Northcutt

Book Overview

The discipline of preaching has undergone several evolutionary moments in the past century, focusing on its purpose as being variously persuasion, explanation, and, most recently, communication. Of particular and lingering influence has been Harry Emerson Fosdick's "preaching as counseling" model, which urged therapeutic, individualistic methods upon the pastor. In the search for a model of preaching that is apt for our postmodern moment, Kay Northcutt...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800662636
• ISBN13: 9780800662639
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"