1978 hardcover with dust jacket and 302 pages in very good condition. Baumann is a Baptist minister and former seminary professor. He points out in his introduction, "The volume unfolds as a commentary on my own definition of preaching: Preaching is the communication of biblical truth by man to men with the explicit purpose of eliciting behavioral change." Using this definition, he divides the book into three sections: communication, biblical truth, and behavioral change.