Michael P. Knowles

Homiletical Theology in Action

Preaching & Worship

“After decades of emphasis on rhetorical methodologies, the scholarly pendulum is now swinging back toward more directly theological considerations. This provocative, diverse, and rewarding collection of essays contributes significantly to a new definition of preaching as an intrinsically theological activity.”

Preaching the New Testament

Preaching & Worship

“This is a first-rate set of essays from an international slate of contributors--scholars and students of the New Testament who are also preachers themselves. In conversation with the best of evangelical scholarship, they boldly address the challenges facing proclamation of the New Testament in a postmodern context. At once intellectually profound and immediately practical, these studies offer a masterful combination of careful exegesis, incisive theological reflection and balanced homiletical application for the life of the church today.”

The Beauty of Preaching

Preaching & Worship

“Michael Pasquarello provides us with a strangely subversive account of preaching, sidestepping the usual preoccupation with method so as to focus on something less tangible yet no less real: theological beauty. Preaching, he contends, both inspires and is inspired by love for God, and love of God is inspired by delight in divine beauty. Reminding us to consider glory, joy, and the aesthetic dimensions of proclamation, he situates the sermon in the context of true worship and in so doing reorients us to a truly theological vision of this most important ministry.”

The Power of Revival

Theology

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The Truth and Beauty

Arts & Literature

“What have the Romantic poets to do with Jerusalem? Quite a lot, it turns out. Andrew Klavan has long since secured his spot as one of the most brilliant writers of our age. In The Truth and Beauty, Klavan’s cultural insight and eloquence shine as never before. The Romantics lived, as we do, in a time of disenchantment and unbelief. Through a deeply personal telling of his relationship with long-dead poets and the God who made both us and them, Klavan gently guides his readers away from the illusions of our age back toward the transcendentals.”

Toward a Homiletical Theology of Promise

Preaching & Worship

“Continuing the ‘turn to theology’ in contemporary homiletics, this thoughtful and wide-ranging collection of essays explores preaching as a theological expression of divine promise that embodies and empowers our human response. Jacobsen is to be congratulated for bringing this important project to completion.”