Evangelical Eloquence: A Course of Lectures of Preaching w3-new-releases we all experience shame

we all experience shame

was one of the most colourful figures in the Evangelical Awakening of the eighteenth century

Research Professor of Theology and Biblical Studies

will find here an absorbing account of his joys and sorrows

Evangelical Eloquence: A Course of Lectures of Preaching w3-new-releases we all experience shameIn these days of the soundbite and the autocue, public speaking is a declining art form, though it is not extinct and still has its own weight and force. In New Testament times, unlike today, rhetoric was a highly regarded skill and works were written about it which are still read. Dabney quotes liberally from these, but does not always agree with them. He knew that gospel preaching was not to be with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should