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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780664233693 |
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Publisher: | Westminster John Knox Press |
Publication date: | 04/19/2010 |
Pages: | 176 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Foreword John S. McClure vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
Chapters
1 Contextual Approaches to Preaching 3
Preaching as Local Theology and Folk Art 4
Preaching as Cross-Cultural Strategies 10
Toward a New Paradigm: Transcontextual Preaching 15
2 Globalization and the Context for Preaching 19
Context as the Locus of God's Revelation 20
Dimensions of Globalization 25
The Context: A Web of Interconnectedness 41
3 Humanization and Transcontextual Preaching 43
A Theology of Humanization 44
Preaching toward Humanization 54
Conclusion 64
4 Transcontextual Hermeneutics 65
Text and Context as Others 66
Methods of Reading Others 68
Transcontextual Hermeneutics as a Political Act 80
5 Negotiating Diversity: The Rhetoric of Appeals 87
The Rhetorical Mode of Appeals 89
The Aesthetic Dimension of Preaching 93
Strategies for the Rhetoric of Appeals 98
Toward the Beauty of a Kaleidoscope 104
Sermons
Remembering the Gift of God: Ephesians 2:11–22 113
The Gift of Bread: Exodus 16:1–3, 11–21; Matthew 14:13–21 121
Surprise, Surprise, Within and Beyond the Church: Genesis 11:1-9; Romans 12:1–8 131
Dear Mary and Elizabeth: Luke 1:39–56 141
Notes 149
Index 165