Teaching Techniques Jesus

The author's purpose in this book is to examine the teaching techniques of Jesus and then apply these techniques toward the improvement of our teaching methods. That there is such a need for improvement is unquestioned, and the author meets this need in a noncontroversial way. He does not deal with the content of Jesus' teachings but is concerned only with "the form in which this content is cast." A partial list of Jesus' teaching techniques discussed in this book includes Jesus' way of securing attention, His point of contact, His aims, His use of problems, His conversations, His questions, His answers, His discourses, His parables, His use of the Scriptures, His use of the apperception, and His use of symbols. Study groups as well as individual readers will appreciate the questions included in each of the book's 27 chapters. These are designed to stimulate discussion and focus the reader's attention toward the analysis of the author.