Richard Lischer
Autore di Open Secrets: A Memoir of Faith and Discovery
Sull'Autore
Richard Lischer is the James T. and Alice Mead Cleland Professor Emeritus of Preaching at Duke Divinity School. He is the author of many books, including The End of Words: The Language of Reconciliation in a Culture of Violence and Stations of the Heart.
Opere di Richard Lischer
The Company of Preachers: Wisdom on Preaching, Augustine to the Present (2002) — A cura di — 182 copie
The End of Words: The Language of Reconciliation in a Culture of Violence (The Lyman Beecher Lectures in Preaching) (2005) 116 copie
Theories of Preaching: Selected Readings in the Homiletical Tradition (1987) — A cura di, alcune edizioni — 67 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Lischer, Richard
- Nome legale
- Lischer, Richard Alan
- Data di nascita
- 1943-11-12
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Istruzione
- King's College, London
Concordia Seminary
Washington University in St. Louis
Concordia Senior College
Concordia Junior College - Attività lavorative
- practical theologian
author
memoirist
preacher
professor - Organizzazioni
- Duke Divinity School
Duke University
Prince of Peace Lutheran Church
Cana Lutheran Church - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Lifetime Achievement Award (Academy of Homiletics, 2007)
Utenti
Discussioni
Memoir Lutheran Pastor in Name that Book (Mag 2012)
Recensioni
Reading the Parables: Interpretation: Resources for… di Richard Lischer
This was a helpful scholarly review of parables and perspectives from which to approach them. Writing was even and voice did not waiver.
Fantastic collection. I read it slowly over 1.5 years or so, and it must have added a couple dozen authors to my to-read list. You could have qualms with omissions, but that's true of any anthology.
So fantastic. It has aged really well in the ten years since I first read it, too.
I read excerpts of this book in seminary and took it off my shelf to read it straight through. The subtitle is Wisdom on Preaching, to which I would say that some of the pieces in this book were very good, particularly by people of days long past, such as Augustine, Luther, Calvin, Edwards, Spurgeon and others, while other pieces were exceedingly tedious (and these appearing primarily to be directed at scholarly audiences and lacking apparent practical value) and seemed not in the least to be connected with Paul's objective of preaching Christ, and Him crucified. A so-so book, as least from my perspective of being one who preaches weekly.… (altro)
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- 14
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- Popolarità
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- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 8
- ISBN
- 37
- Preferito da
- 1