Preaching and the Personal

by J. Dwayne Howell (Editor)

Overview

Preaching is a personal event: a minister or speaker prepares his or her sermon and presents it to the congregation. Preaching, however, also includes the Bible as a central source; this source comes from and provides a basis for the believing community. The preaching event is also personal for the members of the congregation, who are not simply recipients of the preacher's words based on a biblical text. The congregation is involved personally in that each individual interprets the words and the text. What is said in the text, in the sermon, and the listener's response represent parts of each one's testimony. Testimony runs throughout preaching, the Bible, and the congregation. It is in this interchange of preacher, text, and listener that not just one testimony develops but many testimonies are present.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781621898320
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	08/13/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	170
File size:	179 KB

About the Author

J. Dwayne Howell is Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew in the School of Theology at Campbellsville University in Campbellsville, Kentucky, and pastor of the Rolling Fork Baptist Church in Gleanings, Kentucky. He serves as the chair of the Homiletics and Biblical Studies Section of the Society of Biblical Literature.

Table of Contents

Preface
List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations
1 The Personal Nature of Preaching -J. Dwayne Howell
2 Preaching and the Personal -Anna Carter Florence
3 The Personal and Its Other in the Performance of Preaching -Ruthanna B. Hooke
4 The Risk of Testimony -Walter Brueggemann
5 Collaborative Preaching and the Bible: Toward a Practical Theology of Memory - John S. Mc Clure
6 "It Ain’t Necessarily So": Resistance Preaching and Womanist Thought -Valerie Bridgeman
7 Liberating Preaching: Hispanic Hermeneutics and Homiletics: Collaborative and Contextual Approaches to Preaching -David Cortés-Feuntes
8 Preaching John: The Word Made Flesh as Theological and Interpretive Method -Karoline M. Lewis
9 Scholars and Soccer Moms: Reflections on Objectivity and Subjectivity in Moving from Text to Sermon -Charles L. Aaron
10 Hearing the Voices of Others: A Collaborative Reading of Leviticus 19 -J. Dwayne Howell
11 Epilogue -J. Dwayne Howell
Appendix
Hispanic Biblical Hermeneutics and Homiletics: A Brief Bibliography -David Cortés-Feuntes
Bibliography

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"People do not resist the call to the ministry because they are afraid they will have to prepare church budgets. No, like so many who went before them, they do not feel adequate to accept the responsibility of proclaiming God's word. I encourage all, from neophyte to seasoned preachers, to engage in this fascinating conversation. These preachers and scholars challenge us to reflect upon the crucial issues of identity and authority in the pulpit."
—Lucy Lind Hogan
Hugh Latimer Elderdice Professor of Preaching and Worship
Wesley Theological Seminary

"This volume provides a much-needed insight into the preaching event. Its title aptly reflects the authors' firm belief that text, preacher, and congregant are all active participants in interpreting and understanding Scripture. Divergent voices have contributed essays, yielding a collection that addresses many kinds of preaching events."
—Nancy L. deClaisse-Walford
Carolyn Ward Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Languages
McAfee School of Theology

Editorial Reviews

"People do not resist the call to the ministry because they are afraid they will have to prepare church budgets. No, like so many who went before them, they do not feel adequate to accept the responsibility of proclaiming God's word. I encourage all, from neophyte to seasoned preachers, to engage in this fascinating conversation. These preachers and scholars challenge us to reflect upon the crucial issues of identity and authority in the pulpit."
—Lucy Lind Hogan
Hugh Latimer Elderdice Professor of Preaching and Worship
Wesley Theological Seminary

"This volume provides a much-needed insight into the preaching event. Its title aptly reflects the authors' firm belief that text, preacher, and congregant are all active participants in interpreting and understanding Scripture. Divergent voices have contributed essays, yielding a collection that addresses many kinds of preaching events."
—Nancy L. deClaisse-Walford
Carolyn Ward Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Languages
McAfee School of Theology

From the Publisher