The time has come to write my sample essay for graduate school applications. I’d like to take it as an opportunity for substantial theological work that will—I hope—successfully involve careful historical theology, exegesis, and personal theological reflection.
The topic I’m going to write about is Sickness & Theology. There are three possible relationships here, I think:
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Against Expository Preaching
By Robert Minto in Criticism, Gospel, Preaching, Rhetoric, ScriptureI am currently reading Christ-Centered Preaching: Redeeming the Expository Sermon, by Bryan Chapell. I haven’t finished the book yet, so some of what I am about to say may have to be modified at a later date. Still, I have some objections to this whole movement of expository preaching (to the degree that I’ve been [...]
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