Great works and authors of the world are introduced and reviewed artistically, intellectually, and theologically. Persons discussed include Plato, Milton, Dickens, Shakespeare, Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, and C.S. Lewis.

Dr. Larsen offers insight and commentary on truly effective preaching including making a sermon flow, escaping predictability, concluding powerfully, persuading without manipulating, and using narrative effectively.

ST. AUGUSTINE AND THE ABDUCTIONAn Historical Novel of SuspenseIn yet another in his series of clergy mystery novels, Dr. Larsen turns here to the fascinating and towering theologian and preacher, Aurelius Augustine of Hippo in North Africa. The life of this champion of the doctrine of grace is set over against his early licentious life-style and the son Adeodatus whom his concubine of fifteen years bore to him. Now after his conversion in Milan and his subsequent return to North Africa and his bishopric in Hippo, Augustine is shattered by the apparent abduction of his son. Who has taken him...

ORACLES AND ODYSSES OF THE CLERGYImages of the Ministry in Western LiteratureWhat should be the role of the pastor-teacher in the twenty-first century? Shepherd? Rancher? CEO? Impresario? Vigorous discussion and debate are in process right now. Beyond the Biblical documents themselves, history and literature can be helpful in our understanding of how ministry has been understood through the centuries and what it ought to be now. Both ministers and laypersons have a high stake in the wrestling going on in our time. Beginning with Chaucer's CANTERBURY TALES down to the most recent...