I appreciate and agree with Kenneth Langley’s opening statement: “Preaching should be God centered because God is God centered and wants us to be God centered in everything we do. All God does he does for his glory, and all we do—eating, drinking, and certainly preaching—we do for his glory (1 Cor. 10:31).”[1] I also like the way he refuted authors like Christocentric preachers like Tim Keller, C. J. Mahaney, and Edmund Clowney who contended that David is prophetic of his Greater Son. Langley responded, “I disagree that ‘it is impossible not to see Christ in his passage.’”
Read moreReview of the Conclusion of Homiletics and Hermeneutics: Four Views on Preaching Today
Scott Gibson and Matthew Kim, in their conclusion to Homiletics and Hermeneutics: Four Views on Preaching Today, correctly observe: “We note that each author reads the text with a theological framework and makes a theological commitment in his exegesis and preaching” (p. 157).
Read moreNEW Review of Abraham Kuruvilla’s “Christiconic View” of Preaching
This is a review of Abraham Kuruvilla’s “Chisticonic View” in Hermeneutics and Homiletics: Four Views of Preaching. Kuruvilla brings some important corrections to the Christocentric view, but he agrees with the Christocentric on some points. This review will highlight these differences.
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