The point is that preachers must at all costs do justice to the biblical text and not twist it into responding to a different issue than its author originally addressed… Preachers are like transmission towers who transmit the original biblical message from an earlier generation to the present generation. Their calling is not to invent their own messages but relevantly to pass on the divine message found in the Bible.

— Sidney Greidanus (b. 1935), Alttestamentler und Homiletiker

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Sidney Greidanus

Sidney Greidanus (* 1935) ist ein US-amerikanisch-kanadischer Theologe reformierter Prägung und lehrte Predigtlehre unter anderem am Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids. Er wurde vor allem durch seine Arbeiten zur heilsgeschichtlichen Homiletik bekannt, die darauf abzielen, das Alte Testament methodisch fundiert im Hinblick auf Christus auszulegen, statt biblische Gestalten lediglich als moralische Vorbilder zu behandeln. Für Bibelleser bietet sein Ansatz einen systematischen Zugang zur inneren Einheit der Bibel, während Fachkollegen mitunter eine Vernachlässigung der direkten lebenspraktischen Weisung alttestamentlicher Texte diskutieren.

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