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Determining the Form: Structures for Preaching
Contributor(s): Allen, O. Wesley, Jr. (Author)
ISBN: 080060444X     ISBN-13: 9780800604448
Publisher: Fortress Press
OUR PRICE:   $15.75  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: October 2008
* Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: This fifth title in the Elements of Preaching series offers preaching students and clergy an overview of some of the most common sermonic forms and provides insights to determining which forms are mostand leastamenable to the claim that they want to make in their sermon. Many sermons wind up being somewhat formless, and thus less effective they might be in communicating the gospel. Rather than training students in a single rhetorical form, this volume will demonstrate a variety of options without advocating for any particular form.
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christian Ministry - Preaching
Dewey: 251
LCCN: 2008035738
Series: Elements of Preaching
Physical Information: 0.26" H x 5.56" W x 8.46" (0.31 lbs) 84 pages
 
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This fifth title in the Elements of Preaching series offers preaching students and clergy an overview of some of the most common sermonic forms and provides insights for determining which forms are most and least amenable to the claim that they want to make in their sermon. Many, if not most, sermons wind up being somewhat formless and thus less effective than they might be in communicating the gospel. Rather than training students in a single rhetorical form, this volume will demonstrate a variety of options without advocating for any particular form.

Accomplished preachers can think of rhetorical strategy in a nuanced manner, but beginning preachers are well-served by having a knapsack of simple sermonic forms they can turn to when building a sermon out of a sermonic claim. This book will offer preachers a strong foundation in considering sermonic form and a handful of basic, reliable rhetorical structures to use in the