Privilege the Text! spans the conceptual gap between biblical text and
life application by providing a rigorous theological hermeneutic for
preaching. Kuruvilla describes the theological entity that is the
intermediary between ancient text and modern audience, and defines its
crucial function in determining valid application. Based on this
hermeneutic, he submits a new mode of reading Scripture for preaching: a
Christiconic interpretation of the biblical text, a hermeneutically
robust way to understand the depiction of the Second Person of the
Trinity in Scripture.In addition, Kuruvilla's work provides a
substantive theology of spiritual formation through preaching: what it
means to obey God, the Christian's responsibility to undertake
"faithfull" obedience to divine demand, and the incentives for
such obedienceall integral to understanding the sermonic movement from
text to application.Privilege the Text! promises to be useful not only
for preachers, and students and teachers of homiletics, but for all who
are interested in the exposition of Scripture that culminates in
application for the glory of God.