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With all our souls: a study in hermeneutics and psychological type
Preaching
With all our souls: a study in hermeneutics and psychological type
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Description
This is a practical book about preaching, written for preachers by two theologians who themselves preach each Sunday. This useful guide is grounded in an innovative and highly original theory about the nature of preaching known as the SIFT method (sensing, intuition, thinking and feeling), which draws together the best of contemporary scholarship about hermeneutics with compelling insights from modern research concerning psychological type. Leslie Francis and Andrew Village provide concrete examples of the SIFT method of biblical hermeneutics and liturgical preaching. This approach releases the gospel message to be proclaimed and to be heard in a full and rounded manner that touches all of the human mind and soul.
Table of Contents
1 Preaching and meaning
2 Preachers as readers
3 Perception and evaluation in reading
4 Reading the Bible
5 Reading the Spirit
6 Reading the context
Part 2 Preaching and Psychological Type
7 Theology and individual differences
8 Models of personality
9 Understanding psychological type
10 Psychological type and faith
11 Psychological type and reading the Bible
12 Psychological type and preaching
Product details
| Published | 29 May 2008 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 184 |
| ISBN | 9780826493262 |
| Imprint | Continuum |
| Dimensions | 216 x 138 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
About the contributors
Reviews
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Extract in Church Times, August 2008.
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'This reviewer [...] approached [this book] with caution, only to find his fears disarmed and his prejudices challenged [...] finding its results both surprising and enlightening.' Church Times, February 2009
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"Leslie Francis and Andrew Village's book is valuable for experienced preachers wishing to revise their approach to hermeneutics and rethink their communication skills, as well as for theological students just beginning to develop an understanding of homiletical approaches to teaching sacred texts... Francis and Village turn a useful psychological diagnostic tool into a way of breathing spiritual depth and resonance into the teaching life of our churches." Reviewed by Jane Wallman-Girdlestone in Expository Times, September 2009.























