Профессор проповеди Дюкского университета.

Получил бакалаврскую степень в Concordia Senior College, магистерскую степень - в университете Вашингтона.

Защитил докторскую диссертацию (PhD) в Университете Лондона.

Является пастором Евангелическо-лютеранской церкви Германии.

Преподает в Дюкском университете с 1979 г.

Является одним из ведущих специалистов в области протестантской гомилетики.

Наиболее значимые труды: The Preacher King: Martin Luther King, Jr. и the Word that Moved America.

Избранная библиография

Книги
Marx and Teilhard: Two Ways to the New Humanity (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1979).
A Theology of Preaching: The Dynamics of the Gospel (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1981). 2nd, revised edition (Durham: The Labyrinth Press, 1992 [Baker Books]). Korean translation, 1990, Japanese translation, 2004
Speaking of Jesus: Finding the Words for Witness (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1982).
Theories of Preaching: Selected Readings in the Homiletical Tradition (Durham, NC: Labyrinth Press, 1987 [Baker Books]). Korean translation, 2004
The Preacher King. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Word that Moved America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995). Paperback edition, 1997.
Concise Encyclopedia of Preaching, co-editor with William H. Willimon (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1995). Japanese Translation 1998. Paperback edition, 2004
Open Secrets. A Spiritual Journey Through a Country Church (New York: Doubleday, May 2001)
Paperback edition, Open Secrets. A Memoir of Faith and Discovery (New York: Broadway Books, 2002)
The Company of Preachers. Wisdom on Preaching from Augustine to the Present, ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2002)
The End of Words: The Language of Reconciliation in a Culture of Violence (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2005)

Статьи
"Humanism: A Basis for Marxist-Christian Dialogue?" Listening, Vol. IV, No. 2 (Spring 1969), 132-141.
"Karl Marx and the Christian Faith: Persecution or Dialogue?" The Irish Theological Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 3 (July 1970), 223-234.
"The Lutheran Shape of Marxian Evil," Religion in Life, Vol. 42, No. 4 (Winter 1973), 549-558.
"An Old/New Theology of History," The Christian Century, Vol. 91, No. 10 (March 13, 1974), 288- 290.
"From Earth to Heaven: Teilhard's Politics and Eschatology," The Christian Century, Vol. 92, No. 13 (April 9, 1975), 352-357.
"The Current Challenge to Lutheran Renewal," Currents in Theology and Mission Vol. 4, No. 3 (June 1977), 132-142.
"Resurrexit: Something to Preach," The Christian Century, Vol. 97, No. 12 (April 2, 1980), 371-374.
"Preaching as Theology," Currents in Theology and Mission, Vol. 8, No. 2 (April 1981), 86-98.
"Predigt als Theologie," Verkundigung und Forschung, Heft 2, 1981, 58-72 (German translation of above).
"Luther and Contemporary Preaching: Narrative and Anthropology," Scottish Journal of Theology, Vol. 36 (Fall 1983), 487-504.
"'Story' in Luthers Predigten: Ein Beitrag zur Beziehung zwischen Rhetorik und Anthropologie," Evangelische Theologie, 43:6 (November-December 1983), 526-547 (a translation of an expanded version of the above). Included also in in Homiletischen Lesebuch, Tubingen: Katzmann Verlag, 1986.
"Zu wem spricht Luther?" Evangelische Theologie, 43:6 (November- December 1983), 504-512.
"The Limits of Story," Interpretation, Vol. 38, No. 1 (January 1984), 26-38. Reprinted in a slightly abridged form in International Christian Digest, Vol. 1, No. 5 (June 1997), 10-13.
"Preparation for Preaching: A German Model," Homiletic (June 1984), pp. 1-4.
"Luther's Anthropology in Dialogue," Currents in Theology and Mission, Vol. 11, No. 5 (October 1984), 279-284.
"Theology for Ministry: A Conversation with Edward Farley's Theologia," Encounter, Vol. 46, No. 2 (Spring 1985), 102-115.
"Imagining a Sermon," Word and World, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Summer 1985), 238-247. (Anthologized in A Reader on Preaching (Ashgate Publishing, UK, forthcoming 2005)
"The Pulpit's Promising Tradition," Currents in Theology and Mission, vol. 14, no. 2 (April 1987), 127-132.
"The Sermon on the Mount as Radical Pastoral Care," Interpretation, vol. 41, no. 2 (April 1987), 157-169 (reprinted in The Theological Interpretation of Scripture, ed. Stephen E. Fowl, Blackwell, 1997), pp. 294-306.
"'What Language Shall I Borrow?' The Role of Metaphor in Proclamation," Dialog, vol. 26 (Fall 1987), 281-286.
"Preaching and the Rhetoric of Promise," Word and World, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Winter 1988), 66-79.
"The Word that Moves: The Preaching of Martin Luther King, Jr.," Theology Today, Vol. 46, No. 2 (July 1989), 169-182.
"Martin Luther King, Jr. und die Vollmacht der Predigt," (a translation of the above), Glaubeund Lernen, 5:1 (June 1990), 52-71.
"Before Technique: Preaching and Personal Formation," Dialog, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Summer 1990), 178-182.
"Other Voices in Homiletics," Homiletic, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Summer 1991), 1-4.
"Martin Luther King, Jr.: forkynnelse som "fremførelse," Halvårsskrift for Praktisk Teologi, Heft 2 (1993), 3-12, a translation of "Martin Luther King: 'Performing' the Scriptures,'" in Papers of the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Homiletics, Washington, D.C., 1993, pp. 58-68.
"Embarrassed by God's Wrath," Dialog, Vol. 33, No.4 (Fall 1994), 259-62.
"Martin Luther King Jr.: Performing the Scriptures," Anglican Theological Review, Vol. 77, No. 2 (Spring 1995), 160-72.
"'Performing' the Scriptures: Die Schrift 'darstellend,'" Pastoral-Theologie, 84, Heft 4 (April 1995), 136- 49.
"Jasper, John," Concise Encyclopedia of Preaching, ed. Richard Lischer and William Willimon (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1995), 277-79.
“King, Martin Luther, Jr.," Concise Encyclopedia of Preaching, 288-90.
"Taylor, Gardner C.," Concise Encyclopedia of Preaching, 465-69.
"The Interrupted Sermon," Interpretation vol. 50, no. 2 (April 1996), 169-181.
"How the Preacher King Borrowed Sermons," The Christian Ministry, Vol. 28, No. 1 (January-February 1997), 9-21.
"Martin Luther King, Jr.," Dixionario di Omiletica, ed. Manlio Sodi and Achille Triacca (Turin: Elle Di Ci, 1998), 740-42.
"Preaching/Homiletics," The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought, Oxford University Press, 1999.
"Cross and Craft," Concordia Journal (Spring 1999).
‘Blessed are the Debonair’: James Cleland as Preacher and Homiletician. An Inaugural Lecture by Richard Lischer, 31 pp., Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, 2000.
“’How Do You Read?’” The Princeton Seminary Bulletin, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Summer 2001), 172-84.
“The Called Life: An Essay on the Pastoral Vocation,” Interpretation, Vol. 59, No. 2 (April 2005), 166-75.

Главы в книгах
"Die Funktion des Narrativen in Luthers Predigt. Der Zuzammenhang von Rhetorik und Anthropologie," trans. Albrecht Haizmann (a retranslation of the original English version). In Homiletisches Lesebuch, ed. Albrecht Beutel, Volker Drehsen, and Hans Martin Muller (Tuebingen: Katzmann Verlag, 1986), pp. 308-329.
"Die Homiletik in der Wissenschaftskrise der Theologie," Die Predigtanalyse als Weg zur Predigt, ed. Rudolf Bohren and Klaus-Peter Joerns (Tuebingen: A. Franke Verlag, 1989), pp. 33-51.
"Preaching About Race Relations--The Hope of Reconciliation " in Preaching In and Out of Season, eds. Thomas G. Long and Neely Dixon McCarter (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1990), pp. 17-27.
"Preaching as the Church's Language." In Listening to the Word. Studies in Honor of Fred B. Craddock (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1993), pp. 113-130.
"The Sermon on the Mount as Radical Pastoral Care." In The Theological Interpretation of Scripture, ed. Stephen E. Fowl, (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997), pp. 294-306.
"What Language Shall I Borrow?"; "Before Technique"; "Embarrassed by God's Wrath." In Preaching, issued by Dialog, 3.5 high-density disk.
“The Music of Martin Luther King, Jr." in This Is How We Flow: Rhythm in Black Cultures, Angela M. S. Nelson, ed. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998), pp. 54-62.
"Resurrection and Rhetoric" in Marks of the Body of Christ, ed. Carl Braaten and Robert W. Jensen (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans,1999), pp. 13-24.
Preface (approx. 22 pp.) to Faith and Freedom: An Invitation to the Writings of Martin Luther, Vintage Classics of Spirituality, ed. John F. Thornton and Susan Varne (New York: Vintage Press [Random House], 2002)
“Sermon Analysis” (on Pentecost sermon by Barbara Brown Taylor) in Preaching: Creating Perspective, Studia Homiletica 4, eds. Gerrit Immink and Ciska Stark (Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2002), 139-147.
“A Week of Signs” from Open Secrets: A Memoir of Faith and Discovery anthologized in Best Christian Writing 2002, ed. John Wilson (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2003).
“Help Me, Jesus” from Open Secrets anthologized in Pastor: A Reader for Ordained Ministry, ed. William Willimon (Nashville: Abingdon, 2002), 151-56.
“The Ebenezer Gospel” from The Preacher King anthologized in Pastor, 46-69.
"Imagining a Sermon" in A Reader on Preaching, ed. David Day, et al (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2005), 179-84.
"Martin Luther King, Jr.s Preaching as a Resource for Preachers, A Reader on Preaching, 146-50.