Preaching the New Millennium

Rating:
Summary: Some interesting anecdotes, but largely fluff.
Review: Dr. Killinger had enough material for a couple of interesting essays, but not a book. The first two chapters give some helpful background about the turn of the year 1,000 and survey some possible reactions people may have to the turn of the new millenium.

Chapter 3 looks at Biblical themes which could relate to the turn of the millenium. A possible source of good ideas, but more broad than profound.

Chapter 4 seemed to have nothing to do with the topic of the book and praised an odd set of representatives of "the human spirit". You might think that persons of faith, such as Mother Theresa might have been included in this list. But Killinger chose rather to include people like Marilyn Monroe, praising her for marrying a great baseball player and then a great playright and the way she was "an initimate friend" of JFK.

I was so disgusted at that point that I didn't really look at the collection of sermons in chapter 5. The book lacks any kind of conclusion and doesn't really have an overall theme.

In general, the more I read, the less interested I became.

Rating:
Summary: Some interesting anecdotes, but largely fluff.
Review: Dr. Killinger had enough material for a couple of interesting essays, but not a book. The first two chapters give some helpful background about the turn of the year 1,000 and survey some possible reactions people may have to the turn of the new millenium.

Chapter 3 looks at Biblical themes which could relate to the turn of the millenium. A possible source of good ideas, but more broad than profound.

Chapter 4 seemed to have nothing to do with the topic of the book and praised an odd set of representatives of "the human spirit". You might think that persons of faith, such as Mother Theresa might have been included in this list. But Killinger chose rather to include people like Marilyn Monroe, praising her for marrying a great baseball player and then a great playright and the way she was "an initimate friend" of JFK.

I was so disgusted at that point that I didn't really look at the collection of sermons in chapter 5. The book lacks any kind of conclusion and doesn't really have an overall theme.

In general, the more I read, the less interested I became.