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Modern approaches to preaching today are largely fixated on ""how-tos""--how to make preaching more relevant, more interesting, more entertaining. Michael Pasquarello suggests that this fixation may stem from a preaching imagination more beholden to technical, scientific reason than theological wisdom. Rather than devising new techniques or strategies for effective speaking, Pasquarello offers something more salutary--portraits of ten exemplary preachers from the Christian tradition.

Included in Pasquarellos gallery are Augustine of Hippo, Gregory the Great, Benedict, Bernard of...