2005 Conference, St. Louis, Missouri
Show Me the Truth: Illustration, Metaphor and Example in Preaching
Date: October 13-15, 2005
Location: Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri
Theme: Show Me the Truth: Illustration, Metaphor and Example in Preaching
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Bryan Chapell, President of Covenant Theological Seminary
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The plenary speaker is Dr. Bryan Chapell, President of Covenant with respondents Michael Quicke of Northern Baptist Theological Seminary and Timothy Warren of Dallas Theological Seminary. Friday evening Plenary speaker is Dr. Jack Hughes, author of Expository Preaching with Word Pictures With Illustrations from the Sermons of Thomas Watson. Members will present scholarly papers. Publishers representatives from six publishers will be present. Please plan to participate.
Papers
- Jeffrey Arthurs - Genre Sensitive Preaching of Parables
- Michael Duduit - Seeing the Truth: The Use of Visual Illustration in Preaching
- Dave McClellan - Recovering a Sense of Orality in Homiletics
- Mark M. Overstreet - Now I Am Found: The Recovery of the "Lost" Yale Lectures and the Legacy of Engaging Exposition
- Calvin Pearson - Metaphor: The Most Common and Complex of the Homiletician's Tools
- Philip B. Petersen - Garden, Park, Glen, and Meadow: The Effect of Metaphor on Proclamation Today
- Tim Ralston - Postmodern Preaching: Reliable Maps for Renewing Roads
- Shawn D. Radford - The Sermon as Illustration: Confirming Biblical Texts in Concrete Expressions
- Chuck Sackett - The Elusive Illustration: Letting the Text Win!
- Steven W. Smith - The Non-Verbal Illustration: Mcluhan, Postman, and the Emerging Preacher
- Ervin R. Stutzman - Five Professorial Practices that Enhance Effectiveness in the Preaching Classroom
- Austin B. Tucker - Guiding Preachers in Development of Narrative Skills for Sermon Illustrations
- Timothy S. Warren - Presence is Persuasive
