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Book Review: Preaching Proverbs: Wisdom for the Pulpit

critical response to each. For these concise and carefully documented historical perspectives alone Rose's work would be valuable. She transcends these understandings, however, by offering a "proposal" of what she calls "conversational preaching" that seeks "to gather the community of faith around the Word where the central conversations of the church are refocused and fostered" (p. 4). The preacher and the congregation, informed by marginalized voices and insights from other disciplines, gather at a round table to generate preaching that is "communal, nonhierarchical, personal, inclusive, and scriptural" (p. 121).