A graduate of Harvard University and the Catholic University of America, Father MacNutt has done graduate work in speech at Northwestern University. Gauging Sermon effectiveness combines the traditional rhetoric with contemporary developments in effective persuasion. The usefulness of Father MacNutt's book as a text reflects his teaching experience: its practicality as a handbook for private use reflects his own success in preaching. Priests and seminarians who are interested in preaching the word of God fruitfully, will find Gauging Sermon Effectiveness an indispensable aid.