The Way of Humility: St. Augustine's Theology of Preaching

"A highly significant contribution to Augustinian scholarship. Augustine's preaching is of increasing interest to the academy and to a wider readership. Kim has focused on a key idea that needs to be heard more clearly: humility. Augustine's emphasis on humility deserves greater attention in our world marked by pride in diverse ways."?Andrew Hofer, OP, author of The Power of Patristic Preaching: The Word in Our Flesh

"When the worldly and well-educated Augustine assumed the role of bishop in Hippo, he held two things in mind: the humble people he served and the humble Christ. Hewing close to the original sources, Kim masterfully illustrates how Augustine re-oriented his classical rhetorical education in order not only to proclaim the servant Jesus but to embody his humility. This fresh contribution represents a significant advance in our understanding of Augustine's theology of preaching and opens new vistas on the developing Christian discourse of late antiquity."?Alden Bass, Oklahoma Christian University

"Charles G. Kim, Jr., intensifies the recent surge of attention to Augustine's preaching by looking at his sermons through the prism of humility, watching closely and well how his words perform the message and change his hearers, and so help him to reformat classical rhetoric. With an assist from Speech-Act Theory, Kim describes Augustine's difficult rhetorical pirouette while preaching humility without magnifying self in the way he adverts to the ego-dethroning humility of Christ, its source, model, and power. A fertile and engaging study."?Michael Cameron, University of Portland

"For Augustine, humility and speaking humbly go together. Accordingly, Charles G. Kim provides a rich and fresh analysis on how Augustine's sermons both grow out of and foster the way of humility, not as an insignificant aspect of his approach, but as fundamental to it."?Kelly M. Kapic, Covenant College