William S. Schmidt

Divine Therapeia and the Sermon

Preaching & Worship

“Theocentric therapeutic preaching is a form of truth-telling in which one's encounter with the human condition is met with deep and sacred listening. Such preaching is a gift to ministry because it takes the human yearning for an authentic mirror deeper, namely, our quest for God. In that engagement our unowned, unwelcome, and unhealed parts are deeply met.”

The Empathic God

Theology

“Atonement theology has fallen on hard times, it seems, but Frank Woggon's book The Empathic God: A Clinical Theology of At-Onement breaks open this central Christian understanding with freshness, clarity, and comprehensiveness. This book will remain a valuable resource that touches this core Christian understanding with theological and spiritual integrity as well as grounded life-praxis. Pastoral practitioners as well as theological and spiritual seekers--even those soured on the question--will find a guide and a friend in this book.”