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Playing With Fire: Preaching Work As Kindling Art
Playing With Fire Preaching Work As Kindling Art Author:David J. Schlafer The discipline of homiletics can be undertaken via many approaches. In Playing with Fire, David J. Schlafer offers an invitation to the art of preaching by way of metaphor. Metaphors are perhaps the best teaching techniques at our disposal, and two--fire and play--dance together across the pages of this book. Fire is multisensory and mysterious,... more » life nurturing and life threatening, and the history of preaching is a story of sacred fire sharing. How can those called to proclaim the Gospel tend and transmit this fire? Perhaps by playing with it, by participating in God's own sacred play.« less