Explores the idea that preaching is a practice that can be taught and learned
Argues that preaching is a living practice with a long tradition, an identifiable shape and a broad set of norms and desired outcomes
Proposes that teachers initiate students into the larger practice of preaching, in much the same way as other students are initiated into the practice of medicine or law
Provides ideas for a basic preaching course and addresses the question of how preaching courses fir into the larger patterns of seminary curricula

Thomas G Long is Bandy Professor of Preaching at Candler School of Theology, Emory University
Leonora Tubbs Tisdale is Professor of Homiletics at Yale Divinity School