My respect for Capon’s work in some ways resembles Karl Barth’s famous assessment of the importance of Kierkegaard-“I consider him to be a teacher whose school every theologian must enter once. The sermon, “My Daddy was a Pimp!” also has a certain Capon-esque flair to it. Alert readers will recognize Capon’s influence in several of the sermons in my book Leaps of Faith, particularly the pair of sermons on the parable of the Prodigal Son. One such book is The Foolishness of Preaching: Proclaiming the Gospel against the Wisdom of the World by the late Episcopalian priest Robert Farrar Capon.Įncountering Capon’s trilogy on the parables- Kingdom, Grace, Judgment-while a student in seminary was truly a transformative experience. In preparation for my foray into the homiletics classroom, I’ve been revisiting many of the preaching books I’ve read over the years. In addition to teaching two theology courses at Tyndale Seminary in the upcoming fall semester, I am also going to be teaching the “Basics of Preaching” course at Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto.
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