Thesiss

This thesis seeks to demonstrate that, in failing to take the sacramentality of the Word seriously, the preaching of the Church has suffered negative consequences. In short, preaching has often become, at best, a form of instruction or, at worst, an incantation of sorts, rather …

The thesis of this dissertation is that the Scripture writers did not understand human utterances as presented in the Old Testament as having inherent power in themselves, or fulfilling automatically. Instead they see the efficacy of human speeches to be dependent on whether the…