Eloquence

Eloquence and the Heart, Part 2

Mark Abdelmessieh
Oct 2, 2024
“How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks ” (Matt. 12:34) In the first part, we saw how eloquence can have a place in Biblical preaching only when it takes the role of servant not master. The master is the Bible. Any form of eloquence that...

Kierkegaard (of all people?) on Authority and Eloquence in Preaching

Bruce Baugus
Aug 31, 2016
Søren Kierkegaard is surely one of the most influential and misunderstood influences on modern Western thought and especially contemporary theology. This is a bit surprising for someone who wrote in Danish and styled himself neither a philosopher nor a theologian but a "religious poet." That is a...