Quote by Eugene L. Lowry Download Open image ““diagnosis is central to our homiletical task.”” — Eugene L. Lowry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“But why bother with diagnoses at all, if a diagnosis is but a restatement of the problem?” — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“The diagnostic enterprise hinges on an optimistic notion: that disease is part of a natural world that only awaits our understanding. But even if… — Gary Greenberg Copy Share Image
“Beyond relief and recognition, there is a more complicated thing--an understanding that the machinery of the West has never had much of a capacity… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
“Pathology is a fact independent of the observer, but how one responds to symptoms is drawn from knowledge and experience.” — Suzanne O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
“But a person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart!” — Atheneum Books for Young Readers Copy Share Image
“I put the word "diagnosis" in quotes because I have not yet seen that case in which a "diagnosis" led to a "cure," or… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“I know that my late diagnosis means I am in this for years, perhaps even for life.” — Kenneth Singleton Copy Share Image
“At what point does querying diagnostic criteria tip over into mocking the unusual symptoms of people in very real distress?” — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“the primary purpose of sermon introductions is to produce imbalance for the sake of engagement.” — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“The term plot is key both to sermon preparation and to sermon presentation.” — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“So it is that once a person has settled on the question as to what is wrong, the choice of cures is limited. You… — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“Transforming our intuitions into articulate form is precisely the purpose of this book.” — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a sermon idea seemed to emerge on its own, possessed of its own power, and required a developmental process more akin to pruning… — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“Whatever the thinking of Prof. Lowry and his editor, they obviously share the conviction that The Homiletical Plot can sit comfortably on the shelf… — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“Why not conceive every sermon as narrative—whether or not a parable or other story is involved?” — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“Says Robert Roth in Story and Reality: “For the Greeks . . . words were definitions. . . . For the Hebrews, on the contrary, words were descriptions.” 14” — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“It is not enough to probe the question of what the text is saying. It is equally important to discover why it is saying… — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“Hence there is more action or natural movement in describing, for example, a God who walks in the garden in the cool of the… — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“So it is that much homiletical advice tends to function in reverse—that is, it works reasonably well in evaluating a sermon already formed, but… — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
