The new homiletic, with its emphasis on narrative preaching, offered a helpful corrective to the dominant preaching tradition in Europe and North America. It focused our attention on narrative texts and on the importance of preaching in the form of the text (narrative sermons). Despite the gains of narrative preaching, we now recognize several missing dimensions. Because Paul’s letters are essentially sermons delivered to communities in different contingent situations, they provide an important witness, not only to the individual sermon, but to the larger agenda of preaching. This preaching ministry, addressed to a pre-Christian culture, provides a model for preaching in our post-Christian one. The volume concludes with a series of sermon starters for those who wish to follow Paul in his preaching. Westminster John Knox
