Ronald J. Allen

The Peoples’ Sermon

Preaching & Worship

“The People's Sermon offers a simple but theologically and existentially probing pattern for such work: What do I know about the congregation in relationship to the direction of the sermon? What do I want to know? How will I find it out? What do I learn in the process? The collaborative preacher is no longer the isolated voice in the pulpit but is part of an energizing community of preparation and reflection.”

The Story of Narrative Preaching

Preaching & Worship

“Mike Graves, one of the most insightful and learned voices in the narrative world, begins this book with the story of his own coming to consciousness as a narrative preacher, and then tells the story of teaching a preaching class in which the class members engage literature, story, and narrative preaching. . . . I did not want to put it down. This volume will be a welcome resource in preaching classes, clergy groups, and individual reading. You don't even have to be a preacher to be drawn into the story.”

The Third Room of Preaching

Preaching & Worship

“This book prompts preachers and scholars of preaching to think afresh about how to understand what happens in preaching, and how to preach.”

We Have Heard That God Is with You

Preaching & Worship

“Preachers are often puzzled by what to say about the Old Testament. In this comprehensive volume, Dutch scholar Rein Bos offers a pastoral, clear introduction to issues related to Christian preaching from the Torah, Prophets, and Writings. He first surveys leading ways that the church has made theological sense of the First Testament through allegory, typology, promise and fulfillment, and more. Bos puts the ingredients for a new model on the table in dialogue with such things as the biblical theology movement and the literal sense of the text, and leads us to a four-voice choir: attending to the Jewish sense of the text (sensus Israeliticus), the Christological sense, the ecclesiological sense, and the eschatological sense.”

Women Preaching

Preaching & Worship

“Kim's ground-breaking book is the first comprehensive narrative of women preachers from the Second Testament to the Second Millennium. Through Kim's eyes, we see women as a constant and forceful (if often subversive) presence in Christian preaching. After focusing on the medieval period, the Reformation, and the early twentieth century, the author brings her autobiography close to the surface as she leads us to consider women and the politics of God in the colonial and post-colonial eras, with a special focus on Asia. The book climaxes with a call to envision preaching as partnership with God that facilitates partnership in the church and world in the service of liberation.”