This groundbreaking volume has guided generations of students and pastors through the daunting challenge of learning to preach. Fred Craddock weaves history, theology, and hermeneutics into a practical, comprehensive, and contemporary text on how to prepare and deliver the sermon.

Foreword / Thomas G. Long --The sermon in context -- A theology of preaching -- The life of study -- Interpretation : the listeners -- Interpretation : the text -- Interpretation : between text and listener -- Qualities to be sought in the sermon -- The formation of the sermon -- Enriching the form -- Delivering the sermon.