The Joy of Preaching [Paperback]

Phillips Brooks (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 31, 1989

(Introduction by Warren W. Wiersbe) A source of instruction and encouragement for all ministers of the gospel. Highly recommended by Warren W. Wiersbe. (20040603)

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Review

Kregel has done pastors a great favor by reprinting this great classic. (2ProphetU )

About the Author

Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) was born in Boston and educated at Harvard College and the Protestant Episcopal Seminary at Alexandria, Virginia. He ministered at Holy Trinity Church in Philadelphia from 1862 until 1869 when he was called as pastor of Trinity Church in Boston.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Kregel Classics; 4th edition (October 31, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0825422760
• ISBN-13: 978-0825422768
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #141,918 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #84 in Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Evangelism > Preaching

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5.0 out of 5 stars Lectures on Preaching, by Phillips Brooks, April 22, 2000

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Daniel H. Meyer (Marion, New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Joy of Preaching (Paperback)

Phillips Brooks was an Episcopal minister in late-19th century Boston whose Lyman Beecher Lectures on Preaching set the standard for generations to come. When Dean Willard Sperry, of the Harvard Divinity School, told his predecessor that he had been invited to give the Beecher lectures, he was asked, "But what are you going to say? There isn't anything left to say. Phillips Brooks said all that can be said about preaching, and all that needs to be said, in his lectures long ago." Dean Sperry replied that he need not have labored the point. "I was already painfully aware of my dilemma."

The enduring appeal of Brooks' lectures may be seen in the fact that, as the twenty-first century begins, they are still in print and still being recommended by professors of preaching around the country.

To Brooks, preaching is "the communication of truth through personality." Thus his lectures have as much to do with the person in the pulpit as with the task of preaching. One cannot read the chapters of this book without feeling the force of Brooks' own personality. But there is also God's plenty of truth in the book, phrased in such a memorable way that it will leave an enduring impact.

Outside Trinity Church on Copley Square in Boston there is a statue of Phillips Brooks, but one might well say that his true monument is this book containing his views on preaching.

5.0 out of 5 stars Best book on preaching, May 18, 2009

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D. Flavell "evoevo" (Hexham, Northumberland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Joy of Preaching (Paperback)

This is a long term classic - still in print. Phillips Brooks definition of preaching as "The truth through personality" is at the heart of this book. Read it before you next preach.....