Synopses & Reviews
While recognizing the importance of rhetoric as a skill to be acquired and practised, Dabney emphasizes that 'it is grace which makes the preacher, and that nothing is preaching which is not expository of the Scriptures.'
Synopsis
While recognizing the importance of rhetoric as a skill to be acquired and practised, Dabney was concerned that the gospel should not be preached 'with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect' (1 Cor. 1:17). He emphasizes that 'it is grace which makes the preacher, and that nothing is preaching which is not expository of the Scriptures.'