Abstract
From time to time I receive brochures advertising workshops for preachers. Other homiletics professors in town—at Columbia and Emory—send these brochures to me, as well as our constituent seminaries here in The Interdenominational Theological Center. The problem is that most of these workshops continue to promote a triumphalistic philosophy of preaching. Whether it is through story-telling, or coping with the text, or doing any of the other things these titles would suggest, the sponsors of these workshops want homileticians who will portray the traditional, triumphalistic sort of preaching which comes into conflict with Paul’s epistle to the Romans.