The book challenges popular paradigms for
thinking about the nature and function of church pastors. It sets forth a
positive alternative picture, partly through reclaiming pictures from the past,
and claims that pastors (in particular, senior, teaching or preaching pastors)
should be Evangelicalism’s most prominent public theologians – the “prime ministers”
of the word of God. Academics, including biblical scholars and theologians,
have too often become specialists, making it harder for anyone to speak with
authority about the big general questions (i.e., what is the meaning of life?).
The pastor’s work is necessarily integrative inasmuch as it involves the
theological interpretation of Scripture, namely, the application of God’s word
to all areas of life and thought. The present situation calls for a paradigm
revolution in the very idea of what a pastor is and does – liberation from the
picture that currently holds pastors hostage and prevents them from fully
exercising their vocation.
I've been asked to contribute a short chapter on The Drama of Preaching. Release date, June 2014.
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