"Thomas McKibbens has the good sense to recognize that living traditions are not born overnight but are built up over generations, even centuries, by a host of practitioners who contribute to their richness and depth.... What Mc-Kibbens succeeds in showing is that Baptists are not just the heirs of a frontier revivalism whose preaching is little more than unbridled emotionalism. No, there is a Great Alternative of noble lineage, a tradition stretching back in Great Brit-ain to the likes of John Clifford, Alexander Maclaren, and H. Wheeler Robinson, and in America to such stalwarts as Richard Furman, Richard Fuller, and John A. Broadus. These worthy exemplars combined fervent piety with sound learn-ing and so bequeathed a legacy worthy of emulation today. Preachers young or old, especially Baptists with an identity crisis prompted by current controversy, would do well to get acquainted with those forebears to whom we are introduced by McKibbens before deciding from which pulpit tradition they will draw nour-

ishment and inspiration for the legacy that they will one day leave behind." -William E. Hull, pastor, First Baptist Church, Shreveport, Louisiana

"A major contribution to a heritage that is indeed 'forgotten'-'the union of head and heart in the pulpit.' The Forgotten Heritage is readable and challenging: McKibbens breathes life into major figures in the development of our preaching. In this fitful era in Baptist life, all would be well advised to read this work before stating again what it means to be Baptist."

-Clyde Fant, dean of the chapel, Stetson University

"Early on I started to keep a list of those who were becoming known to me through this book. Before finishing it I had listed 49 whom I wanted to remem-ber! Nothing enriches our sense of identity more than awakened knowledge of those who have gone before us in the pulpit. To this is added a second strength: It is a book marked by sound and thorough research. The material is authenticated, trustworthy, and exceedingly interesting an enrichment to all who read it.... This, then, is a strong book that makes a significant and lasting contribution to the literature of preaching. It serves several purposes. It gives authentic correction to a commonly held misconception of preaching in the Bap-tist tradition and makes clear some forgotten roots. It sends the reader who is engaged in preaching back to his or her week by week work with a greatly en-larged understanding of a calling that claims both heart and head. It will be es-sential to anyone teaching homiletics. And based as it is in biography, it is

interesting all the way!" -Gene Bartlett, former president of Colgate Rochester Divinity School