This is a review of Abraham Kuruvilla’s “Christiconic View” in Hermeneutics and Homiletics: Four Views of Preaching. Kuruvilla brings some crucial corrections to the Christocentric view, but he also agrees with it on other points. This review will highlight these differences.
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Kenneth Langley’s Theocentric View of Preaching is found in Scott M. Gibson’s and Matthew D. Kim’s Homiletics and Hermeneutics: Four Views on Preaching Today. I agree with Bryan Chapell, Abraham Kuruvilla, and Paul Scott Wilson, who note that Langley makes many good points in his view. For example, Bryan Chapell states “The sound principles of biblical interpretation in Ken Langley’s work make it rich reading. For example, he begins with a statement that I would hope all believers would endorse: ‘Preaching should be God centered because God is God centered and wants us to be God centered in everything we do’ (81). That healthy summary of 1 Corinthians 10:31 should elicit a loud ‘Amen.’”[1]
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