Product Description

Advent through Transfiguration. With this popular new lectionary commentary series, Westminster John Knox Press offers one of the most extensive resources for preaching on the market today. When complete, the twelve volumes of the series will cover all the Sundays in the three-year lectionary cycle, along with movable occasions, such as Christmas Day, Epiphany, Holy Week, and All Saints Day.

For each lectionary text, preachers will find four brief essays one each on the theological, pastoral, exegetical, and homiletical challenges of the text. They might focus on the Gospel text, for instance, by reading all four essays provided for that text, or they might explore connections between the Hebrew Bible, Psalm, Gospel, and Epistle texts by reading the theological essays for each one. Each lectionary year will consist of four volumes, one for the Advent and Christmas season, one for Lent and Easter, and one for each half of Ordinary Time.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18159 in Books
• Published on: 2009-07-13
• Released on: 2009-07-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 472 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780664231002
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
Feasting on the Word is a monumental contribution. The editors have gathered an impressive roster of writers and the result is a lively collection of thoughtful and well-written pieces, many of which directly address preachers, offering a bracing blend of admonition, exhortation, and encouragement. Feasting on the Word will richly repay your investment. ----The Christian Century, April 2009

“Feasting on the Word is a monumental contribution. The editors have gathered an impressive roster of writers and the result is a lively collection of thoughtful and well-written pieces, many of which directly address preachers, offering a bracing blend of admonition, exhortation, and encouragement. Feasting on the Word will richly repay your investment.” —from The Christian Century, April 2009

About the Author

David L. Bartlett is Professor of New Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary, the author of Whats Good about This News? Preaching from the Gospel and Galatians, and coeditor of the Westminster Bible Companion series (Westminster John Knox Press).

Barbara Brown Taylor is a popular preacher and the author of such books as Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith; An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith; and The Seeds of Heaven: Sermons on the Gospel of Matthew (Westminster John Knox Press). She is Adjunct Professor of Christian Spirituality, Columbia Theological Seminary, and Butman Professor of Religion, Piedmont College.

Customer Reviews

missed half the lectionary
This is a fabulous series - I have been using it in a lectionary study group all through year B. The season of Pentecost arrived and as we turned to look for the readings of the week, they were missing. The RCL allows for either a SC (semi-continuous) or GR (Gospel-related) set of readings during ordinary time, but the SC option is not there for all of books 3 & 4! What's with that? How can this call itself a series for "Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary" when half of the lectionary is missing? It certainly doesn't seem like a space concern, as each of books 3 & 4 are markedly thinner than the Easter (#2) book. I notice that the price of book #4 has dropped significantly -- perhaps others heard of this limitation and elected to put their dollars elsewhere. This really is unfortunate, as the quality of the material in books 1&2 is truly spectacular.
[same review of book #3]

A Great Primary Source for Bi-Vocational Pastors
I am a tri-vocational, part-time local pastor in the United Methodist Church. Besides my church and my day job, I also serve as a City Councilman for my city-ward. So I keep a fairly busy schedule. I am something of a book-addict and have literally hundreds of books that I will never live long enough to read, including many commentary sets.

This is by far the best set of books that I have come across for sermon preparation. I especially like the commentaries for the homiletically and pastoral perspectives. They are so good at getting the mind working as to how to most effectively relate specifically to my parishioners the scripture text(s) I am going to use for the week. Even if I am not going to use a particular passage in any way during the week, I still like to read the commentary as there is so much to learn in these volumes.

I have followed the lectionary since beginning my church ministry two years ago, but have veered off for the season of Lent. As someone previously mentioned, there is scripture index in the back of each volume, that I have used; and as luck would have it, the text I needed yesterday for the First Sunday in Lent, was in one of the three volumes already issued. I greatly look forward to receiving each volume as they are issued. The price (especially with the Amazon discount) is money well spent.

A Mid-Season Surprise
Imagine my surprise when I received this commentary and discovered that the OT lections had changed from the alternate to the primary readings (RCL). I later learned that this is how the editors chose to handle Year B in terms of splitting. I also understand that they are going to make some provisions for years A and C, but don't remember what the fix is.