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A Theology of Preaching and Dialectic

Author : Aaron P. Edwards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567678571
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book A Theology of Preaching and Dialectic written by Aaron P. Edwards and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does the preacher know what God might say now based upon the many things God said then? Preachers and theologians throughout Christian history have grappled with Scripture's diverse emphases alongside the urgent task of declaring the authoritative Word of God in the contemporary pulpit. Aaron Edwards offers a new way of engaging with this problem, by exploring the theological relationship between biblical dialectics and heraldic proclamation. Edwards highlights the theological necessity of dialectical variety, without forfeiting assertiveness in the prophetic moment of preaching. A vast array of key voices from the theological tradition are drawn upon - including Augustine, Aquinas, Eckhart, Luther, Calvin, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Chesterton, Barth, Bultmann, Tillich, Ebeling, and others - to navigate the connection between Scriptural unity, clarity, and paradoxical plurivocality, leading to a nuanced account of dialectic. Applying this to the homiletically neglected concept of 'heraldic' confidence in preaching, Edwards examines the theological possibility of preaching in light of dialectical complexity via its 'prophetic' dimension. He shows how the uniquely revelatory relationship of Word and Spirit enables Scriptural illumination, prophetic discernment, and dialectical decisiveness in the 'momentary' encounter which undergirds all Christian proclamation.

A Theology of Preaching and Dialectic

Author : Aaron Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780567678584
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (785 download)

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Download or read book A Theology of Preaching and Dialectic written by Aaron Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Theology of Preaching

Author : Richard A. Lischer
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1579106595
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (791 download)

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Book Synopsis A Theology of Preaching by : Richard A. Lischer

Download or read book A Theology of Preaching written by Richard A. Lischer and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2001-06-08 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Lischer's book is a stirring affirmation of preaching's importance as a major enterprise in its own right. It is, he writes,"a theological preface whose aim is to show how theology informs preaching and how preaching, as a kerygmatic, oral, practical activity, informs theology and brings it to its final form of expression." Dr. Lischer points to the historically negative results of preaching's exclusion from theology, and then shows the benefits derived from the proper interaction of the two disciplines. As he elaborates on this theme, he explores the centrality of the Resurrection in both theology and preaching, the relation of the law and the gospel, and how preaching calls upon theology to recover its oral-aural foundation. For Lischer, the act of preaching is an exercise of the preacher's imagination. The real work of imagination is not inserting clever stories or esthetically-pleasing images into the argument of the sermon. It is knowing how to read texts in such a way that they will be allowed to function according to their original power and intent.

The Monstrosity of Christ

Author : Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262265818
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book The Monstrosity of Christ written by Slavoj Zizek and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A militant Marxist atheist and a “Radical Orthodox” Christian theologian square off on everything from the meaning of theology and Christ to the war machine of corporate mafia. “What matters is not so much that Žižek is endorsing a demythologized, disenchanted Christianity without transcendence, as that he is offering in the end (despite what he sometimes claims) a heterodox version of Christian belief.”—John Milbank “To put it even more bluntly, my claim is that it is Milbank who is effectively guilty of heterodoxy, ultimately of a regression to paganism: in my atheism, I am more Christian than Milbank.”—Slavoj Žižek In this corner, philosopher Slavoj Žižek, a militant atheist who represents the critical-materialist stance against religion's illusions; in the other corner, “Radical Orthodox” theologian John Milbank, an influential and provocative thinker who argues that theology is the only foundation upon which knowledge, politics, and ethics can stand. In The Monstrosity of Christ, Žižek and Milbank go head to head for three rounds, employing an impressive arsenal of moves to advance their positions and press their respective advantages. By the closing bell, they have not only proven themselves worthy adversaries, they have shown that faith and reason are not simply and intractably opposed. Žižek has long been interested in the emancipatory potential offered by Christian theology. And Milbank, seeing global capitalism as the new century's greatest ethical challenge, has pushed his own ontology in more political and materialist directions. Their debate in The Monstrosity of Christ concerns the future of religion, secularity, and political hope in light of a monsterful event—God becoming human. For the first time since Žižek's turn toward theology, we have a true debate between an atheist and a theologian about the very meaning of theology, Christ, the Church, the Holy Ghost, Universality, and the foundations of logic. The result goes far beyond the popularized atheist/theist point/counterpoint of recent books by Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and others. Žižek begins, and Milbank answers, countering dialectics with “paradox.” The debate centers on the nature of and relation between paradox and parallax, between analogy and dialectics, between transcendent glory and liberation. Slavoj Žižek is a philosopher and cultural critic. He has published over thirty books, including Looking Awry, The Puppet and the Dwarf, and The Parallax View (these three published by the MIT Press). John Milbank is an influential Christian theologian and the author of Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason and other books. Creston Davis, who conceived of this encounter, studied under both Žižek and Milbank.

Groans of the Spirit

Author : Timothy Matthew Slemmons
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1606089048
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Groans of the Spirit written by Timothy Matthew Slemmons and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-09-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groans of the Spirit constitutes a rousing challenge to mainline churches and their practice of preaching. In this inventive work, Timothy Slemmons calls preachers beyond the formalism of the New Homiletic, and beyond the ethical proposals that have arisen in the frustrated struggle to transcend it, and toward what the author calls a "penitential" (reformed) homiletic. This new homiletical proposal is distinctive in that it faithfully adheres to the Christological content of preaching, finds its inspiration in the promise of the real presence of Christ, and trusts in the ministry of the Holy Spirit, from whom alone the power for the renewal of the mainline church shall come. This book includes a thorough reconsideration of the "infinite qualitative difference" between God and humanity in Barth's thought, an important critique of Gadamer's reception of Kierkegaard's concept of contemporaneity, an undelivered lecture on the content of preaching, and two sermons that illustrate Slemmons's important proposals. Groans of the Spirit is a long-considered, calculated, and overdue break with conventional hermeneutics that proposes a vital homiletical pneumatology, which draws the art of the sermon out of the ghetto of mere rhetoric and presents it as it truly is: as theological reflection of the first order, the church's primary language of faith.

1-2 Samuel

Author : Paul Evans
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
ISBN 13 : 0310490944
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book 1-2 Samuel written by Paul Evans and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new commentary for today's world, The Story of God Bible Commentary explains and illuminates each passage of Scripture in light of the Bible's grand story. The first commentary series to do so, SGBC offers a clear and compelling exposition of biblical texts, guiding everyday readers in how to creatively and faithfully live out the Bible in their own contexts. Its story-centric approach is ideal for pastors, students, Sunday school teachers, and laypeople alike. Each volume employs three main, easy-to-use sections designed to help readers live out God's story: LISTEN to the Story: Includes complete NIV text with references to other texts at work in each passage, encouraging the reader to hear it within the Bible's grand story. EXPLAIN the Story: Explores and illuminates each text as embedded in its canonical and historical setting. LIVE the Story: Reflects on how each text can be lived today and includes contemporary stories and illustrations to aid preachers, teachers, and students. —1 & 2 Samuel— The book of Samuel develops theological concepts that are important not only for reading in the context of the Old Testament but also for reading from a New Testament context and a twenty-first century context. The most prominent theological themes are the fulfillment of the prophetic word, trust in God, the seriousness of sin, the importance of true repentance, the Davidic covenant, and the Messiah. Edited by Scot McKnight and Tremper Longman III, and written by a number of top-notch theologians, The Story of God Bible Commentary series will bring relevant, balanced, and clear-minded theological insight to any biblical education or ministry.

No Longer Bound

Author : James Henry Harris
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1621896811
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book No Longer Bound written by James Henry Harris and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Longer Bound is about the intersection of reading comprehension and interpretation that leads to the development of a powerful and transformative sermon. Reading facilitates the interpretive process, which is the essence of any sermon. The sermon is an interpretation of an interpretation and as such presents itself as a new gospel message. The ability to write and preach a sermon is an exercise in freedom. The book is grounded in a narrative theological form that begins with the author's experience and filters that experience through the lens of hermeneutic philosophy and theology. Reading and preaching constitute the thread that runs throughout the book. The book suggests that the sermon is the philosophic theology of Black practical religion inasmuch as the Black church is central to religion and culture. This is a fresh and new understanding of homiletics, philosophical theology, and interpretation theory that is intended to produce better preachers and more powerful and life-changing sermons by all who endeavor to preach.

Dialectical Theologians

Author : Christophe Chalamet
Publisher : Theologischer Verlag Zurich Ag Tvz
ISBN 13 : 9783290173241
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book Dialectical Theologians written by Christophe Chalamet and published by Theologischer Verlag Zurich Ag Tvz. This book was released on 2005 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karl Barths und Rudolf Bultmanns Theologien sind in ihrer Nahe und Distanz als eigenstandige Weiterfuhrungen der Theologie Wilhelm Herrmanns zu deuten - das ist die These dieses Buches. Es gibt keinen vor-dialektischen Barth oder Bultmann, sondern verschiedene Phasen ihrer dialektischen Theologie. Als Schuler Herrmanns waren sie von Anfang an dialektische Theologen, namlich Theologen in der Spannung von Gesetz und Evangelium, in der Dialektik des Deus absconditus et revelatus, des Gerichts und der Gnade Gottes. Deswegen konnte Bultmann um 1922 in die Nahe der neuen theologischen Bewegung kommen. Aber weil die Dialektik Barths eine Umwandlung der Theologie Herrmanns war, konnte Bultmann, als treuer Schuler Herrmanns, ihm nicht folgen. Unter Berucksichtigung von umfangreichem unveroffentlichtem Material aus dem Baseler Karl Barth-Archiv und dem Bultmann-Nachlass in Tubingen unternimmt die Studie den Versuch, die Wurzeln der dialektischen Theologie bei Wilhelm Herrmann zu zeigen (erster Teil), die Debatte zwischen Barth und Bultmann im Lichte von Herrmanns Theologie zu verstehen (zweiter Teil) und die konkreten Konsequenzen aus der Dialektik des Deus absconditus et revelatus bei Bultmann und Barth darzustellen (dritter Teil), namlich - unter anderem - die Auseinandersetzung mit der naturlichen Theologie (Barth) und das Programm der Entmythologisierung (Bultmann). Christophe Chalamet, Jahrgang 1972, Dr. theol. (Faculte autonome de theologie protestante, Universitat Genf), ist Assistant Professor an der Fordham University in den USA.

The Whispered Word

Author : Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki
Publisher : Chalice Press
ISBN 13 : 9780827242395
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book The Whispered Word written by Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki and published by Chalice Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suchocki explores the art and practice of proclamation through the lens of process thought. In a fresh interpretation of the concept of "being made present", Suchocki shows us how the encompassing whisper that is God's presence in us and around us becomes a shout in the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ -- and how preaching is the extension of Christ's incarnation into our time.

Theology and the Dialectics of History

Author : Robert M. Doran, S.J.
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442651342
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Theology and the Dialectics of History written by Robert M. Doran, S.J. and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1990-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this challenging work Robert M. Doran explores the basis of systematic theology in consciousness, and goes on to consider the practical role of such theology in establishing and fostering communities with an authentic way of life. This way of life would counteract the distortions and deformations of humanity that are exemplified by both late capitalism and Marxism. Theology positions and interpretations today, argues Doran, must be stated in the categories of a theory of history. The first part of the book outlines the horizon required for such categories. The second,, third, and fourth parts incrementally derive the categories expressing a theory of history in terms of the reciprocal relations among subjects, cultures, and social structures. The final part, on hermeneutics, oresents an argument for the pertinence of what has preceded for interpreting the words and deeds of others. Doran draws extensively on the thought of Bernard Lonergan, and the work develops Lonergan's methodological insights. It issues a call to persona; genuineness and authenticity, informed by religious, moral, intellectual, affective, and psychic 'conversions,' by 'interior' differentiation of one's consciousness, and by Christian faith, on the parts of theologians who aspire to arrest effectively the course of cultural decline.

Sacramental Imagination

Author : Todd A. Peperkorn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Sacramental Imagination written by Todd A. Peperkorn and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis answers the question of whether there can be a Lutheran sacramental imagination for preaching. It begins with an overview of the history of preaching in The Lutheran Church - Missour Synod (LCMS), especially since the move into English in the 1920's. This history traces how the LCMS has largely adopted the New Homiletic, but have not reflected critically on how its own theological hermeneutic integrates with the New Homiletic, and what relationship this may have to sacramental preaching. Beginning with definitions of a dialectic imagination and a sacramental/analogical imagination from David Tracy and Mary Catherine Hilkert, it examines the roots of the sacramental imagination in the works of Edward Schillebeeckx, particularly his early book, Christ the Sacrament of the Encounter with God. It then compares this with the writings of Richard Eslinger, Hans Boersma, and Graham Hughes. Next, the thesis attempts to reconcile a sacramental imagination with a Lutheran hermeneutic. The most successful attempt for this has been in the writing and work of Lutheran Gordon Lathrop. While there are some concerns regarding a dialectic counterbalance, a Lutheran sacramental imagination that takes both the distinction of Law and Gospel and the place of grace begins to emerge. The ministerial intervention was a seminar for a group of pastors from the LCMS. It involved questionnaires, sermons, and interviews both before and after the seminar. The seminar included modeling sacramental preaching and taught the practice of "Preaching Partners" as a way of connecting the preacher to the life of the congregation. It concludes by determing that some work needs to be done on defining a Lutheran sacramental imagination, that Preaching Partners is an excellen method for building both pastoral relationships and in creating a collaborative spirit in preaching, and that Lutherans will benefit from more interaction with non-Lutheran preaching and scholarship.l

Luther's Theology of the Cross

Author : Dennis Ngien
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532645813
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Luther's Theology of the Cross written by Dennis Ngien and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luther was fundamentally a preacher-pastor, "a care-taker of souls," whose ingenuity lies in his usage of the biblical message as a source of pastoral encouragement. This book seeks to capture the often-overlooked pastoral side of the Reformer through an examination of his sermons on John's gospel. The sermons on John show the intrinsic, close, and causal link between doctrine and consolation. They are an exercise of his vocation as a pastor, or more precisely, as a theologian of the cross who seeks to inculcate the good news of justification by faith in his people, leading them to experience it within the dialectic of law and gospel. St. John, said Luther, "is the master in the article of justification." Luther's theological method, namely, his theology of the cross, permeates and governs the exposition of the text, and all major themes of his theology-- Christology, Trinity, and soteriology--appear in his exegesis of John.

The Affirmations of Reason

Author : Sigurd Baark
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319707930
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book The Affirmations of Reason written by Sigurd Baark and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the speculative core of Karl Barth’s theology, reconsidering the relationship between theory and practice in Barth’s thinking. A consequence of this reconsideration is the recognition that Barth’s own account of his theological development is largely correct. Sigurd Baark draws heavily on the philosophical tradition of German Idealism, arguing that an important part of what makes Barth a speculative theologian is the way his thinking is informed by the nexus of self-consciousness, reason and, freedom, which was most fully developed by Kant, Fichte, and Hegel. The book provides a new interpretation of Barth’s theology, and shows how a speculative understanding of theology is useful in today’s intellectual climate.

The Barthian Revolt in Modern Theology

Author : Gary J. Dorrien
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664221515
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book The Barthian Revolt in Modern Theology written by Gary J. Dorrien and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this history of the rise, development, and near-demise of Karl Barth's theology, Gary Dorrien carefully analyzes the making of the Barthian revolution and the reasons behind its simultaneously dominating and marginal character. He discusses Barth's relationship to his predecessors and contemporaries, as well as to modern theologians, and argues that his approach to theology was deeply indebted to his liberal past.

Rudolf Bultmann

Author : Konrad Hammann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781598151183
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Rudolf Bultmann written by Konrad Hammann and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rudolf Bultmann was the giant of twentieth-century New Testament scholarship. His pioneering studies in biblical criticism shaped research on the composition of the gospels, and his call for demythologizing biblical language sparked debate among Christian theologians worldwide. This definitive biography now in English for the first time traces his career in Germany through the tumult of two world wars. Through richly drawn connections between events in his life and his theology, Hammann illuminates Bultmann s contributions to biblical historical criticism and the changing role of religion in public life in Europe.

Homiletical Theology

Author : David Schnasa Jacobsen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1630878758
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Homiletical Theology written by David Schnasa Jacobsen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-02-13 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karl Barth famously argued that all theology is sermon preparation. But what if all sermon preparation is actually theology? This book pursues a thoroughgoing theological vision for the practice of preaching as a way of doing theology. The idea is not just that homiletics is the realm of theological application. That would leave preaching in the position of simply implementing a theology already arrived at. Instead, the vision in these pages is of a form of theology that begins with preaching itself: its practice, its theories, and its contexts. Homiletical theology is thus a unique way of doing theology--even a constructive theological task in its own right. Homiletician David Schnasa Jacobsen has assembled several of the leading lights of contemporary homiletics to help to see its task ever more deeply as theological, yet in profoundly diverse ways. Along the way, readers will not only discover how homileticians do theology homiletically, but will deepen the way in which they understand their own preaching as a theological task.

Homiletical Theology

Author : David Schnasa Jacobsen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1625645651
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Homiletical Theology written by David Schnasa Jacobsen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-02-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karl Barth famously argued that all theology is sermon preparation. But what if all sermon preparation is actually theology? This book pursues a thoroughgoing theological vision for the practice of preaching as a way of doing theology. The idea is not just that homiletics is the realm of theological application. That would leave preaching in the position of simply implementing a theology already arrived at. Instead, the vision in these pages is of a form of theology that begins with preaching itself: its practice, its theories, and its contexts. Homiletical theology is thus a unique way of doing theology--even a constructive theological task in its own right. Homiletician David Schnasa Jacobsen has assembled several of the leading lights of contemporary homiletics to help to see its task ever more deeply as theological, yet in profoundly diverse ways. Along the way, readers will not only discover how homileticians do theology homiletically, but will deepen the way in which they understand their own preaching as a theological task. Contributors include: -Ronald J. Allen, Professor of Preaching and Gospels and Letters at Christian Theological Seminary -John S. McClure, Charles G. Finney Professor of Preaching and Worship at Vanderbilt Divinity School -Alyce M. McKenzie, George W. and Nell Ayers Le Van Professor of Preaching and Worship at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University -Michael Pasquarello III, Granger E. and Anna A. Fisher Professor of Preaching, at Asbury Theological Seminary -Luke A. Powery, Dean of the Chapel and Associate Professor of the Practice of Homiletics, at Duke University -Teresa Stricklen Eisenlohr, Ph.D., Associate for Worship, Office of Theology and Worship, at the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)