Description: Foreword by Don Wardlaw
This exceptional book by Charles Cosgrove and Dow Edgerton will be a rich resource for pastors wanting to reach their congregations in a fresh way. Rather than discussing preaching in general or even a specific approach to preaching, it focuses on a new way of engaging the biblical text for preaching. In Other Words combines Cosgrove and Edgerton's critical acumen, creative imagination, and pastoral discernment to present contemporizing restatements of Scripture, speaking timeless truths in modern speech. In describing their "incarnational translation," the authors invite readers to imagine what the text might have looked like if produced in the preacher's own culture, time, and place. Drawing on translation theory, genre studies, and recent hermeneutical theory, they offer both a comprehensive theory of incarnational translation and a set of specific guidelines and examples for carrying it out.Brief description:
Charles H. Cosgrove is emeritus professor of early Christian literature at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, where he taught from 2011-2021. Earlier in his career, he taught at Northern Seminary and in the Association of Chicago Theological Schools' Doctor of Ministry in Preaching program. He has published books and essays on a wide range of subjects, including the letters of Paul, biblical theology, hermeneutics and ethics, practical theology, and early Christian hymnody.