Richard Lischer
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Pen Name: None Connection to Illinois: He has served as a pastor of Lutheran congregations in Illinois, most noteably, Dorsey, Illinois at Emmaus Lutheran Church where he served from 1972 - 1974. Biography: Richard Lischer is the James T. and Alice Mead Cleland Professor of Preaching at Duke Divinity School. Before joining the Duke faculty, he served as pastor of Lutheran congregations in Illinois and Virginia. He is the author of numerous books on preaching, theology, and ministry, including ''A Theology of Preaching: The Dynamics of the Gospel'' and the prize-winning ''The Preacher King: Martin Luther King, Jr.and the Word That Moved America''. He is also editor of ''The Company of Preachers: Wisdom on Preaching, Augustine to the Present''. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.
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Website: http://divinity.duke.edu/academics/faculty/richard-lischer
Richard Lischer on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=richard+lischer
Selected Titles
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A theology of preaching : ISBN: 1579106595 OCLC: 52578702 Wipf and Stock, Eugene, Or. : 2001. |
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Concise encyclopedia of preaching / ISBN: 0664227236 OCLC: 612384645 Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville (Ky.) : 2000. |
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Open secrets : ISBN: 0385502176 OCLC: 44777218 Doubleday, New York : ©2001. A memoir of a young Lutheran minister's first years as a pastor in a small town in southern Illinois. |
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Open secrets : ISBN: 0767907442 OCLC: 49938720 Broadway Books, New York : 2002. |
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The company of preachers : ISBN: 0802846092 OCLC: 49356023 W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. : ©2002. |
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The end of words : ISBN: 9780802862808 OCLC: 176882361 William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. : 2008. |
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The preacher King : ISBN: 9780195111323 OCLC: 39080183 Oxford University Press, New York : 1997. Today it seems extraordinary that a nation the size of the United States could have been so profoundly affected by the minister of a little Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama. But at a turning point in American history, Martin Luther King, Jr., had an incalculable effect on the fabric of daily life and the laws of the nation. As no other preacher in living memory and no politician since Lincoln, he transposed the themes of love, suffering, deliverance, and justice from the sacred shelter of the pulpit into the arena of public policy. He was the last great religious reformer in America. How the man who always saw himself as fundamentally a clergyman, a Baptist preacher crafted his strategic vision and moved a nation to renewal is the subject of this remarkable new book. The Preacher King investigates Martin Luther King Jr.'s, religious development from a precocious PK (preacher's kid) in segregated Atlanta to the most influential American preacher and orator of the twentieth century. To give the most accurate and intimate portrait possible, author Richard Lischer draws almost exclusively on King's unpublished sermons and speeches, as well as tape recordings, personal interviews, and even police surveillance reports. ... More than any other book, The Preacher King captures the crucial aspect of the identity of Martin Luther King, Jr. Human, complex, and passionate, here is a preacher who never gave up trying to shape a congregation of people that would be capable of redeeming the moral and political character of the nation. --Publisher description. |