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RELIGION PROFESSOR GORDON PUBLISHES FIRST BOOK |
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April 22, 2009
GROVE CITY, Pa. – Dr. T. David Gordon, professor of religion at Grove City College, recently published his first solo book, which discusses the media’s influence on the pulpit.
Gordon’s book, “Why Johnny Can’t Preach: The Media Have Shaped the Messengers,” was released in February by P& R Publishing. It is an analysis of shifts in the dominant forms of media and how they have affected the sensibilities of the culture as a whole.
“Many of those shifts have profound, and unfortunate, effects on preaching,” Gordon said.
David F. Wells, the Andrew Mutch Distinguished Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, called the book “[a]n insightful diagnosis of a serious problem in the life of the church. For this we should be grateful, as we should for the way out of the crisis to which this book ably points.”
Gordon has contributed to a number of books and written numerous journal and magazine articles. He began teaching at Grove City College in 1999. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Roanoke College in Roanoke, Va., his master’s degree from Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Pa., and his Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Va. Before coming to the College, Gordon also taught at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Mass., among other places.
Gordon and his wife, Dianne, live in Grove City with their daughters, Grace and Dabney.
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