The Word Made Plain: The Power and Promise of Preaching - Couverture souple

Harris, James Henry

 
9780800636876: The Word Made Plain: The Power and Promise of Preaching
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0800636872 ISBN 13 : 9780800636876
Editeur : Augsburg Fortress, 2004

Synopsis

Preaching mediates the word of God into a cultural matrix. And no American preaching has done so more effectively and powerfully than African American preaching, claims noted homiletician James Harris. Known for its rhetorical strength, social-justice orientation, and dead-on connection to the community's lived experience, black preaching is here analyzed and proposed as a model for all preaching.Harris grounds black preaching in the self-understanding of the historic black church and its most prominent preachers, from Martin Luther King Jr. to Samuel Proctor. Harris also explores the hermeneutical and aesthetic dimensions of preaching, especially at the intersection of sacred text and the broader culture. He then lays out the specific distinguishing characteristics of black preaching, including verbal cadence and rhythm, use of gestures, and, most thoroughly, the narrative model of the sermon. His last chapter, ''Preaching Plainly,'' provides specific instructions on how to put the sermon together employing this model.

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À propos de l?auteur

James Henry Harris is Distinguished Professor of Homiletics and Pastoral Theology and a research scholar in religion and humanities at the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology, Virginia Union University. He also serves as chair of the theology faculty and pastor of Second Baptist Church, Richmond, Virginia. He is a former president of the Academy of Homiletics and recipient of the Henry Luce Fellowship in Theology. He is the author of numerous books, including Beyond the Tyranny of the Text and Black Suffering: Silent Pain, Hidden Hope (Fortress Press, 2020).

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Éditeur
Augsburg Fortress
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0800636872
ISBN 13 
9780800636876
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
178
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Personne responsable
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