EVANGELICAL ELOQUENCE

Fashions in book titles change with the times, and American Baptist R.L. Dabney's book was first published in 1870 as Sacred Rhetoric. In 1979, the first Banner of Truth edition was R.L. Dabney on preaching, now we have this low-cost paperback edition with the explanatory sub-title: 'A course of lectures on preaching'. The text of the book is, of course, unchanged, so the real question is whether these more than 100 year-old lectures have anything to say to preachers struggling to be faithful to the Word of God at the dawn of the 21st century.

Graham Hind