Greidanus’ outlines seven legitimate ways of preaching Christ from the Old Testament. Now he brings these seven to bear on Ecclesiastes 1:1-11 As he’s already noted, two of his seven, promise fulfillment and typology, are not applicable in the main to Ecclesiastes. Here are scant summaries of how Greidanus treats the other five: Redemptive-Historical Progression: …
Sidney Greidanus identifies three difficulties in ‘Preaching Christ From Ecclesiastes’: 1. Selecting a proper preaching text; 2. Formulating a single theme; and 3. Preaching Christ. In his treatment of the third of those points Greidanus writes: ‘Ecclesiastes contains not even one “messianic text”; there is not promise of the coming Messiah. How does on preach …
Preaching Christ From Ecclesiastes by Sidney Greidanus arrived yesterday while I was at Assembly. I pre-ordered it from Amazon.com a couple of months ago. Subtitled: Foundations For Expository Sermons, the book features thirty pages of introductory material before launching into two hundred and sixty odd pages that deal with Greidanus’ treatment of Ecclesiastes broken into …
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