1st Edition

Preaching in Arduous Times Outline of Perspectives from the Hebrews Sermon on Preaching

By Maarten Kater, Ferdi Kruger Copyright 2026
262 Pages
by Central European University Press

The overarching research question which is answered in this study by means of several different angels is: ‘What kind of perspectives could an investigation of the Hebrews sermon offer to the homiletical praxis of people living in arduous times?’. This study want to indicate and illustrate that the Hebrews sermon offers piercing perspectives for the discipline of homiletics and, moreover, the... Read more

Introduction
Maarten Kater and Ferdi Kruger 


CHAPTER 1 On speaking termsPreaching and the voice of God
Maarten Kater

CHAPTER 2 A multitude of chords needed in enabling listeners to actively listen to the voice
Ferdi Kruger 

CHAPTER 3 Servant or master? Preaching and rhetoric
Maarten Kater 

CHAPTER 4 The inseparable intertwining of the preacher’s and the listeners’ attitudes in the act of preaching
Ferdi Kruger 

CHAPTER 5 Preach as you teach
Maarten Kater

CHAPTER 6 Persuasive preaching’s pertinent focus on the changing of attitudes that impede the interrelationship between listening and doing
Ferdi Kruger 

CHAPTER 7 Preaching on Abel as an exemplum living example or just a predecessor?
Maarten Kater

CHAPTER 8 Remembrance as propellant for the act of seeing in persuasive preaching that evokes a change in attitude
Ferdi Kruger 

CHAPTER 9
Hearing and being in church Preaching in worship services
Maarten Kater 

CHAPTER 10 The determining dimension of encouragement as part of the eschatological dimensions in the Hebrews sermon
Ferdi Kruger 

CHAPTER 11 Homiletical headlines from Hebrews
Maarten Kater and Ferdi Kruger

Biography

Maarten Kater is Professor of Practical Theology at Theological University Apeldoorn, the Netherlands.


Ferdi Kruger is is Professor of Practical Theology at North-West University at Potchefstroom, South Africa.