Theology For Preaching
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The heart of the postmodern mind-set is an awareness of the relativity of all human thought and action. In Theology for Preaching , three authors collaborate to discuss the implications for proclamation when the culture behaves as if all human thought and...
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The heart of the postmodern mind-set is an awareness of the relativity of all human thought and action. In Theology for Preaching, three authors collaborate to discuss the implications for proclamation when the culture behaves as if all human thought and practices are relative. Tips for sermon composition and theme are proposed. Sample sermons are supplied to demonstrate awareness of the cultural shifts that make preaching a worthwhile challenge in a postmodern ethos.
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- Catalogue Code 114754
- Product Code 0687017173
- EANÂ 9780687017171
- Pages 240
- Department Academic
- Category Church
- Sub-Category Preaching/sermons
- Publisher Abingdon Press
- Publication Date Apr 1997
- Dimensions 217 x 140 x 15mm
- Weight 0.310kg
Scott Black Johnston
Johnston is Assistant Professor of Homiletics at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Austin, Texas.
Barbara Blaisdell
Blaisdell is Pastor of First Christian Church, Concord, California.
Ronald J Allen
Ronald J. Allen (Ph.D. from Drew University) is Nettie Sweeney and Hugh Th. Miller Professor of Preaching and New Testament at Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis. In addition to over 100 articles and chapters in books Allen is the author of almost thirty books.From 2000-2004, he directed one of the first studies of people who listen to sermons to determine the qualities in preaching that encourage people to pay attention to the sermon and qualities that discourage them from doing so. This project, funded by the Lilly Endowment, is generating four books. Listening to Listeners: Homiletic Case Studies (jointly authored with Dale P. Andrews, L. Susan Bond, John S. McClure, Dan P. Moseley, and G. Lee. Ramsey, Jr.) (2004), Hearing the Sermon: Relationship, Content, Feeling, Believing in Preaching: What Laity Think about Sermons(coauthored with Mary Alice Mulligan, Diane Turner-Sharazz and Dawn Ottoni Wilhelm) and, with Mary Alice Mulligan, Make the Word Come Alive: Lessons from Laity. Other recent books are Wholly Scripture: Preaching Themes from the Bible, along with Preaching is Believing: The Sermon as Theological Reflection , as well as Preaching: An Essential Guide.
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