The transductive sermon is not just to animate, much less illustrate. The transductive sermon orchestrates the whole being in the narraphor. Like the abductive method, this means in part not to supply right answers but to ask better questions. But even more it means to revel in the mystery of life, to accept that not every question should or must be answered, to embrace something deeper than knowledge and certainty: faith and assurance. Or as Eugene Lowry sums it up so beautifully, every sermon is “dancing on the edge of mystery.
