Homiletics 'master' dies at age 89
David G. Buttrick, best known as “a master of homiletic design,” died April 22, at age 89. His obituary did not give a cause of death.
Buttrick was professor of homiletics at Vanderbilt Divinity School for almost 20 years and also taught at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and Iliff School of Theology, among other schools.
“David was passionate about the art of preaching and a prolific scholar,” Dean Emilie Townes of Vanderbilt Divinity said in a statement. “He influenced many generations of great homileticians and was a consultant on worship to the Commission on Church Unity and to several Protestant denominations.”
