THE IMPERATIVE OF PREACHING
A Theology of Sacred Rhetoric
By John Carrick
Banner of Truth Trust
202 pages. £13.50
ISBN 0 85151 826 5
Each chapter in this book is worth the price of the whole. The book is mind-stretching: but this is a useful exercise for preachers, particularly when the mind is stretched in the right direction.
Useful too in another respect: its contents page reads like the contents of a book on English grammar. Most preachers could do with improving their grammar, and the author is a superb educator. But these are just the incidental benefits of what is one of the finest books written on the subject of preaching. What then has English grammar got to do with preaching? Dr. Carrick provides the answer.
